Smells Good!

Do you ever have any smells that you just love, but would just never be found as a yankee candle? Boy, do I ever do! I love some of the most stinky smells, just because of the good memories that accompany them.
1. I love the smell of pigs, cows, and chickens.... I was raised in the country, and grew up with these animals at our house, except the cows... they were at Grandma's. Horse manure, and cow poop! I love the smell of horses especially, I rode our horse Willy since the time I was 4 years old, until we sold him when I was 15. I really do miss him! Allen thinks it sounds like I grew up Little house on the Prairie, with some of the memories I recall to him.

2. Fresh cut grass. I am a perfectionist, and my lawn is my thing. So, naturally, I love the smell of fresh cut grass. I remember smelling the cut grass when I would run at track practice every day after school. I mainly connect it with the Middle School - my jr high, for some reason.

3. Tink's 69 Doe estrus..... I know hard one to like. Me being a deer huntress, though, I love the smell of anything that has to do with hunting... summer sausage, dead deer - I always went with my dad to track his buck he had shot, and would ride on its back in the back of the truck on the way back to the house.

4. Fall leaves burning. It is just one of the things from my childhood I remember loving. Raking leaves and then burning them in the ditch. The yard all clean afterward. OCD in the making I know.

5. Chlorine from the pool. Going to town to the pool was a big deal when we were growing up. It beat the horse trough in the pasture that we would other wise use besides the creek in the woods, or the snake infested borrah lake.

6. Freshly dug up dirt. We would help my mom in the garden all summer - that was most of our family's food for the year. I really loved the feel of freshly tilled garden with my feet stuck right in, getting ready to plant our garden.

7. Perm chemical fumes- I used to love to get my hair permed... so 80's.. maybe the perm will make a comeback.

8. Wood stove ashes - For the first 14 years of growing up in my house, we had only a wood stove to heat our house. No, we were not poor, but we just did not need a furnace in our old farm house. In the winter, we would take a bath, and then go into the dining room, standing there on the hard wood floor, wrapped in a towl, warming ourselves by the stove. When the electricity went out in the ice storm one winter, we were okay. We ate supper by lantern light, and cooked on the wood stove. - this is where Allen thinks I go Laura Ingals on him.

9. Freshly cut Wood. Every year we would go out to the woods and cut down 3 dead trees. We would cut them up, and stack them up in the back of Dad's truck. We would get it home, split it, and haul it in the wheel barrels up to the wood shed, and stack it up for winter. Also, I love the smell of a newly framed house. My dad and Grandpa have their own construction company, Travous Construction. I grew up helping my dad in the summer with what ever needed done, picking up, painting, running to Hurns for materials, or helping with just the manual labor of holding stuff up, drywall, helping raise a wall. It was no surprise to anyone that I ended up being the only girl in our Building Trades class in High School. After all, I did excell in art and wood design.

And 10. Some will agree with me on this one.. The smell of BEER! That just says it all right there.

It would be interesting to be able to buy one of these scents as a Yankee Candle. But, most smells are not that appealing to the average person. If they could just make a barnyard, tree in a jar candle, I would be soo happy.