It's such a happening place out Independence way. If it weren't for the annual chicken races, Independence would truly be a forgotten corner of the County. Actually, it is forgotten. Not one of our three County Commissioners can find Independence on the county map.

I remember as a kid accompanying my step-dad on a livestock buying trip out that way where we ran across a farmer (?) who was sharing a bottle of vodka with a Holstein calf. Maybe that farmer had moved there from Enumclaw or Buckley; I don't know. There's no shortage of weird folks in the outlying areas of the county.