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Farm Town Weekly Season II Episode 1

Saturday, October 17th, 2009

I want to thank everyone who has been involved in Farm Town Weekly from our iTunes listeners to our Honorary Board of Directors. This is our Season Two Kickoff Episode. Click the play arrow to listen here now. After the show we got together on my farm for some fun and laughs. Check out the pictures below the player for more.

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Season Two Kickoff Party

Okay it was more of a race than a party, but this was a lot of fun. So much fun that I will be asking our live audience and Farm Town neighbors to join us again on my farm to do it again immediately following our next show on Monday. (more…)

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Happy Farming Photo Breaks Previous Record

Monday, October 12th, 2009

On one particularly fun day in Farm Town, I was over at Mountain Mamma’s farm with neighbors Clara Belle and Mayor Mark. Mamma had created a little race track and the 4 of us has having a ton of fun seeing who could get around the track the fastest. This day happened shortly after the new camera was added to Farm Town.

While our avatars stood there chatting with their  little chests heaving in an out as they caught their breath after the many sprints to the finish line, I had an idea to see if we could get a Farm Town Photo of all 4 of us, each having the words, “Happy Farming” in our talk bubble. Sounds pretty easy right? Well think again…

We did eventually figure out how to do a count-down and get around the chat glitch that prevents you from saying the same phrase over and over. Maybe that is to prevent spamming a farmers chat. Anyway, the photo worked out and so I posted a challenge asking others to get together with their neighbors to see if they could beat our record with their own group of neighbors. To this day, nobody has sent in any “Happy Farming” group photos, much less on that would break our 4-neighbor record.

Well, following our Season One Finale of Farm Town Weekly last Monday evening, friends and neighbors that participated in the live chat during the show and join us on the call all headed to my farm for a little finale party. Sure enough, we all decided it was time to beat the old record.  As you see in the photo, nearly all of us have “Happy Farming” over our avatar and I count 9 talk bubbles out of 10 farmers. A couple other neighbors visited while we were making our attempts but didn’t know what we were doing so they are off to the side. Thank you to everyone who made last Monday such a great time.

Snuggles the Bull and Karma the Cow wanted to be in the photo too, but they had too much crap in their keyboards to participate

Snuggles the Bull and Karma the Cow wanted to be in the photo too, but they had too much crap in their keyboards to participate

Now that you know about the “Happy Farming” Group Photo Challenge, maybe you will either join in next time and help us raise the bar once again. One final note, tonight is of course the Kick-off Episode to Season Two and I will be inviting everyone participating in the show to my farm for some more fun like we had last Monday. We have lots of new items to discuss and I promise a laugh or two so please do join me tonight at 7:30 Central.

“Happy Farming!”

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Happy Farming Group Foto Challenge

Monday, July 27th, 2009
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I was doing some farming with a few of my favorite Farm Town neighbors and had an idea. Let’s see if we can get a photo with all 4 of our avatars saying, “Happy Farming” at the same time.

The idea seemed simple and all I had to do was ask and my good neighbors were all kind enough to indulge me and play along. After the first 3 or 4 attempts however, I began to wonder if it was even going to be possible. Understand that whoever takes the picture has to send “Happy Farming” through the Farm Town chat, then take the photo before the words disappear from their avatar, keeping in mind that they will also need to switch to the new “Window” option on the camera so the photo is zoomed in enough to be able to read the text and see the avatars.

As you see we eventually did succeed. This photo was not edited except that I added clearer labels so you could see who is in the picture. It looks a lot easier than it really is and I had to hit the little red (X) in the upper right corner of the photos that didn’t work out so as not to post those to my facebook page. When I finally seen one with each of us having the words “Happy Farming” over our avatar, I sent it to my wall and was thrilled with how well we all cooperated in order to make it happen.

Just for fun, I want to challenge all of you farmers to get together with as larger of a group of your neighbors as you can and attempt your own “Happy Farming Group Foto” No cheating with Photoshop or other image editing software. Another little rule, if even one farmer in the photo does not have the talk bubble over their avatar, you have to try again. As you see, the record as of this post is 4 neighbors.

Are you up to the challenge? Can you get more than 4 neighbors in your Happy Farming Group Foto? If so then let me know and we will add your record breaking photo to Farm Town Weekly and raise the bar on any other farmers that are up to the challenge.

As always, Happy Farming!

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