Farmers Co-op Adds Harvest-Moon Hours; Coffee on the House

ALFALFA ARC— Doors stay open till nine while combines hum like satisfied cats. Clerk Gopher mans the register with a smile you could hang laundry on.

Promotions: ten-percent off baling twine if you whistle a show tune; free advice on rain probabilities from Mr. Crow, unofficial meteorologist. Teenagers stack sacks for merit badges and pie futures.

Manager Tortoise says overtime is patriotic when the moon behaves itself. We'll drink to that—with cooled tea, no foofaraw.