You can almost smell the manure

mopacmike — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:25:45 +0000

Big news around town is the sudden disappearance of the strange blue-covered ground along with the simultaneous coloration of the snow-white rock surfaces. “It’s as if some huge monster appeared from outer-space!” exclaims long-time resident Clara Bell, who has also reported seeing bright lights on the horizon that come and go in an instant “like a flying saucer-like thing; kinda like that, you know? Those rocks along that bluff used to be white as plaster! Overnight, they just started takin’ on color.”

The end-result of all the commotion, is that a Midwestern farm has grown over and covered the blue-foam surface, complete with a two-story farmhouse, barn, pond, cornfield, people, and most of the usual farm implements you’d expect to see on a typical 1960-1970 farm. Of course, as Clara would be quick to point out, “seeing is believing. I saw that flying saucer-like type thing with my own good eye!” Clara has only one eye, having lost the other one in a tragic child-hood accident. Details are sketchy, but it had something to do with an apple placed on top of her head, and you guessed it – there was a bow and arrow involved. “I’m a natural blonde” reports grey-haired Clara. “My mother always used to tell me that I was blonde in one eye and blind in the other. I’m really not sure what she meant by that, though. How can you have a blonde eye?”

Enough about our grey-haired blonde. This is about railroading, remember. Since seeing is believing, here are some photos of the farm that grew and now entirely covers the area the locals call Blue Foam Flats.

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You can almost smell the manure