Not so suburban after all

And now, the exception to Lonnie's rule:


I don't live in a particularly small town. There's a university, an actual, functional downtown with an infamous courthouse, gracious old homes and interchangeable McMansions, and an increasingly alarming number of big box stores. I don't live particularly far out on the prairie, either. It's barely 20 miles from my house to the Arch. But I do live in a place where a subdivison is named Burns Farm because, not all that long ago, it actually was the Burns family farm. And, apparently, I also live in a place where, sometimes, there's a cow at the Home Depot.

So, there you go, all my coastal friends. All your suspicions confirmed!