Farmville Frustrations

Today I am going to rant about Farmville.  I absolutely LOVE this game, but there are a couple of things that are really irritating me today.

First issue I have is that I want to expand my farm...I need more room.   The 28x28 expansion has been available for 120 farm cash for over a month now (maybe longer), but I am not one of those people who puts my hard earned money into the game on a regular basis.  I want to be able to expand my farm by spending my time on the game and earning coins.  They will not announce how many coins I need to expand my farm, for the past month it lists the coins as TBD.  Therefore, I don't want to spend my coins on other stuff, because I think they might announce that I need like 5 mil coins.  I already have almost 3 so I don't want to spend it all.  I just wish that they would announce how many coins it will take to expand.  (BTW, Yes I understand that they are trying to encourage people to spend their money...it just won't work with me)

Second, they introduced the Duck Pond (which I love) but ever since then, when I open Special Delivery gifts, I keep getting shovels.  I have finished my duck pond and no longer need shovels, I need watering cans to water my trees, but I keep getting shovels that I don't need.  If they would let me use them to expand my duck pond that would be great, but I can't do that to make more room for ducks, they just end up going to my storage cellar which is already maxed out.

My last rant for today, before I move on to other addictions is regarding expanding dairy farms and chicken coops.  Great that I have 3 days to get 10 people to help me with my expansion, but I can only figure out how to ask once.  Can't I post a reminder on day 2 and day 3?  People don't remember to go back on day 2 and 3 to help me out so it is very hard to expand.  Why can't I go in and check my progress and have a link to post a reminder for people to help me out?

Ok, I feel better now!