It was love that moved him — and his livestock.

Dick Kleis, a farmer in Zwingle, Iowa, used more than 120,000 pounds of manure to spell out a special message to his wife, Carole: “Happy birthday. I love you.”

For anyone with a large field and a desire to create a similarly sentimental greeting, he has this advice: “Any manure will work. But the good, soft, gushy, warm stuff works the best.”

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A Tacoma, Wash., blood bank is offering a pint of beer for a pint of blood.

Donors get coupons for a free brew at local bars and restaurants.

But they won’t have to worry about flunking a DWI test, since the coupons are not valid until four hours after the blood drive ends.

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A Spokane, Wash., couple has a real can-do attitude about financing their upcoming wedding.

Peter Geyer and Andrea Parrish plan to pay for the reception by recycling 400,000 cans. And Alcoa came through with the perfect gift — 260,000 of them.

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These con men should get the international chutzpah award.

Scammers in the African country of Benin sent a cashier’s check for $4,000 to the Richland, Wash., police department.

Cops realized that the “contribution,” if deposited, could allow the senders to learn bank-account information and lead to digital fraud.

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Are you afraid of being taken too seriously?

A firm in Mount Clemens, Mich., has released software that includes a new punctuation sign — the “sarcmarc.”

The symbol, which resembles an open circle with a dot in the middle, will let people know “the writer of . . . a sentence doesn’t literally mean what they’re writing; they’re being sarcastic,” the firm said.