And Speaking of Smells...

Some people ask the question very graciously ("Um, where is that odor coming from?"); some questioners feel a bit more demanding ("How long will it be before I can build a house worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and not be assailed by the smell of cows when I step out the door?!"), and some find the humor in the situation ("I grew up in Texas and my daddy said that's just the smell of money!").

The fact is that the dairies were here long before our houses were, and it would be unreasonable to ask them to move just because we are here now. (Full disclosure - yes, the Morrison family owns one of those dairies, at Elliot and Sossaman.) The smells that we endure are actually coming from five to six miles away! The feed lot corrals on Higley next to the four silos have been closed for over a year now, and are pretty well dried up, as far as odors go. The good news for our state is that we've been having a lot of rain lately. The bad news is that the manure odor is increased by moisture. The good news is that we live in a very dry climate. Hopefully, the odious odors will be sporadic and few.