The farmer's heart of manure.
Red roses for Valentine's Day are just so cliched, aren't they? So how about trying something that may not smell as sweet but certainly reeks.
Which leads us to Bruce Andersland, a Minnesota farmer w\ho wanted to do something completely different for his wife in honor of Valentine's Day. And so he did.
He laid down, ahem, fertilizer with his spreader across his field and made out of manure the outline of a giant heart, a half mile across, pierced by a Cupid's arrow.
No, I did not read this in The Onion. It's no joke.
As the Albert Lea Tribune reports:
For his wife this Valentine's Day, a farmer has created a half-mile wide arrow-pierced heart recognizable from the sky about 12 miles southwest of Albert Lea.
Following plans he jotted on scratch paper, Bruce Andersland drove his tractor and manure spreader earlier this week in the special shape for his wife, Beth.
On Thursday afternoon, the Tribune was on the telephone with Beth when she had her first look at the aerial image, taken through Minnesota Aviation by Albert Lea pilot Darren Schone.
With a gasp, Beth said, "Now I've got my Valentine! That's pretty cute."
She said it was the biggest and most original Valentine she has received in her life.
You betcha, that's original.
Now it's time for Bruce Andersland's buddies to pay up since he obviously won the bet.
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