OK, it's a tad crude, and I try to keep this blog PG-13, but I would like some theme to reflect my status as a new Midwesterner. On the other hand, it occurred to me, nicely though the phrase works (poetically speaking), it's not terribly accurate. The Midwest isn't big on sheep. More of a Western thing, really. It would have to be pigs. Or dairy cows. But wait - Fleck's more finely tuned alliterative sensibility has lit upon "hog". He's right, of course. "Hog" it should be.