- 老农民 wrote:
俺就喜欢这种要搞就大大方方轰轰烈烈地搞,tnnd.
继续。
This Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2005, photo of Pieter DeHond's field in Canandaigua, N.Y., shows his lovelorn message in his cow pasture in 50-foot-tall letters made from corn stalks. DeHond, a divored father of two, planted the lovelorn message in May. (AP Photo/Robert Mincer)
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CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. - It sounds a little corny. A farmer looking for love has planted a personals ad, using corn stalks in a cow pasture. It reads: "S.W.F Got-2 (love symbol) Farm'n." Underneath is a 1,000-foot-long arrow pointing single white females to his house.
"It only took me about an hour — I did it with a corn planter in May," Pieter DeHond said Wednesday as he removed weeds from the 18-acre field. "I was just horsing around."
In place of a newspaper ad, DeHond said he decided on an impulse to use up the extra corn seed left after spring planting at his 200-acre Pleasure Acres farm in western New York.
"I wouldn't place a personal ad in the paper. To me it seems desperate," he added, laughing. "This is more of a fun thing. I put this out in a field where nobody could see it unless you flew over it."
The 41-year-old divorced father said running a business and looking after his two teenagers doesn't leave a lot of room for socializing.
His corn stalk appeal, featured this week in his hometown Daily Messenger newspaper, has already drawn quite a few phone calls and e-mails.
"I'd be lying if I told you I wasn't a little proud," DeHond said.
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