You sound like a very nice person, so glad you are on the list.:) I love the smell of fresh hay, the smell of the diaries can't be as bad as the smell from the Southeast Water Treatment Plant just a few miles from us. The Public officials would have you believe the "buffer zone" and the precautions they take eliminate all odors, but they don't live out here where we are, I'm sure it would be much different if they were living in our area. Supposedly they have an air release system to "deodorize" the air when anyone calls in. Yea, right. There is sometimes a strong ammonia smell which creeps into the house and you know better than just to open your window or doors, your skin will turn green if it doesn't fall off. So enjoy sitting on your front porch watching those milk trucks go by, we have gravel haulers rumbling down our streets, waking the dead and destroying our little rural streets. Yes, I guess we all have trade offs, it is only a matter of minutes to anywhere I want to go in Dallas, Mesquite, Duncanville, Seagoville, ect. It is not uncommon for my sister and I to travel completely around Dallas sometimes a couple of hundred miles and never leave Dallas on one of our busy days.:) We never think about it, just get on the freeways and go! ----- Original Message ----- From: Peggy McCleskey Broughton <peggyj@our-town.com> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 11:51 AM Subject: Re: [ERATH] Small Towns -Big Towns > Sunday gets right busy, JO, and the milk tank trucks can make you forget you > were on your way to church, and the trucks with the big round bales of hay > as just as bad, you ca't pass because you can't see beyound the truck and > some mornings, all you can smell when you open the door is the daries that > sourrand you. > but I like living here... but it has it disadvantages also, like being far > from a doctor,, but that is enough for now. > > Peggy in Purves >