And the best is the 40-year-old sex therapist never left on their computer, they all tend to.
It is one of the millions of residents of the Farmville an almost utopian game popular online fantasy game that takes people a rush to the assistance of another neighbor, ribbons easily get a reward, not getting sick plants, and there is never a catastrophic frosts, floods or drought.
Since its launch last summer, the cartoon-style simulation game seems to mix "Leave it to Beaver" and "Green Acres" has become a phenomenon, Facebook attracted in all of the city to Grimes, while the actual farmers, people care Push To think, more about where their food comes from.
"It's kind of what you do not see every day," said the Farmville Grimes from Zynga, a San Francisco-based developer of games played on many online venues such as Facebook. "I must say, lives in Chicago, which pleases me more than urban Farmville."
Farmville - with more than 72 million monthly users worldwide, the most controversial application in Facebook status updates - head of a growing stable of agriculture also simulated SlashKey's Town Farm in Up and Play Mesh iFarm recently launched for the iPhone to life.
Simple design, Farmville trick allows players to build their businesses, starting with a packet of seeds with them and with a variety of crops such as berries, eggplant, wheat, soybeans, pumpkins and artichokes. Players can add pigs, cows and chickens and accouterments, such as barns, the chicken coop, windmills and greenhouses.
As is the case in the real agricultural land, the attention is in Farmville is of crucial importance. Players who tend with care to produce their crops, their farms and see their bank balances balloon. They left their crops to see their cultures - and their investment wither - and die.
Neighbors rewarded with points and gold to banish pests, fertilizing or feeding chickens on a spread of other players.
"One thing we do we feel it is really done very broad appeal," said Bill Mooney, Zynga Vice President and General Manager. "Everybody loves the farm, whether you are a gardener, or you grew up on a farm, or your grandparents. There is literally something that everyone can rely on."
And, in Farmville, "it is a job, just cute, with the amazing ways people take the plants to develop and use them as their own."
In the end, he hopes "people will see this as a nice escape to."
Grimes is safe. The transplanted Oklahoman who hates video games and has no agricultural background razzed her Farmville-loving friends for her sister urged her to a successful conclusion.
Now she realizes, "I'm a total freak Farmville."
A mother of a 3-year-old daughter and the wife of a paramedic, Grimes squeeze in agriculture between simulated and parental benefits. She spends less than one hour per day in spurts Little Bitty "Max finally out of their Farmville spread seems a strange menagerie - black sheep, calves, pink, penguins, reindeer with flashing Christmas lights on their antlers.
"It was totally senseless and me," she said. "I can decide where everything has gone well, I could decide when it happened. I have to move things. I make it look beautiful."
She loves to collect bonus points every turn, often helps a neighbor. And she credits her hurried Farmville with old friends, including the fourth-grade classmate, now lives next to his agricultural experience combine in this too.
"I know nothing about her life, except that it is a very nice neighbor - she leaves me little things, they send me nice gifts, to harvest my crops. And I feel better about the people in my life," said Grimes . "What's so fun here is really about camaraderie that you rely on people to do things for you."
"I never thought this would be something that I do," she said.
Even actual farmers digging. In his central Illinois farm near Windsor, 31-years-ago old bachelor Doehring This month, the game started that he credits with helping him sogginess wait to play the harvesting of their 2000 acres of corn and soybeans real obstacle.
"There were several times last fall, I have my plants are more (Farmville), then I was in the area because of the rain and mud outside. I enjoy it," said Doehring stated that he wanted the fantasy game's other challenges mimic the real-life farmers, including weather.
Mooney says that is unlikely by Zynga: "We are not punishing experience. We want a positive."
To John Reifsteck, a corn and soybean growers in Champaign County, Illinois, there are parallels between the virtual and the actual operation. "Success in Farmville requires vision, perseverance and a willingness to help others - such as agriculture in the real world," he wrote in an online column last Monday
And while he does not play Farmville - "I work in the fields for a life" - he understands, and those who welcomed the popularity of Farmville's.
"It's a good sign for agriculture - but only if the players do not come to think that running a farm is as easy as it seems to Farmville," he said. "If Farmville was so difficult and complicated as the actual farming would probably play no one."
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