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Post by rockjunquie on Sept 11, 2015 18:18:42 GMT -5
cabbage- Mom loved it. YUCK! The whole house would reek.
raspberries, fresh off the vine- we used to pick them as kids
Mom's Pall Malls, Dad's Old Spice
Little Kiddles (rose)
Clam flats
the smell of freshly perked coffee wafting up the stairs
the ocean
the smell of warm dust coming from the vents the first firing of the furnace
Dad's leather coat and gloves
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Post by jakesrocks on Sept 11, 2015 18:20:34 GMT -5
Also the smells of sage & creosote bushes in the desert. Even now, almost 20 years since my last visit to the California desert, if I think about it I can still smell the desert smells. Don, I remember you had Larry send you a bit of creosote bush, to bring you back in time, remind you of your years here so long ago. Don't remember if he let Goober (rest his soul) pee on it before sending it to you, or if Jake got to initiate it when it arrived, lol. (Often think about Larry and Diane, hope they are doing well.)
And the desert after it rains has got to be the most wonderful smell there is!
Yup, I still have that box of creosote clippings sitting beside my recliner. Every so often I open it up & have a sniff or two. I hear from Larry a couple times per week. He had surgery on his shoulder, and has had a lot of pain. He & Diane got a new Rat Terrier, and take him to the park almost daily. Other than that, they're both doing as good as can be expected. Next time I hear from him, I'll let him know you asked about him.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2015 18:27:34 GMT -5
I miss larry.
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Post by jakesrocks on Sept 11, 2015 18:32:16 GMT -5
I'll see if I can talk him into coming back to RTH, It might do him good to talk with his friends on here.
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Post by jakesrocks on Sept 11, 2015 18:43:40 GMT -5
Just sent Larry an email, and told him to get his butt over here & talk to his friends.
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Post by jakesrocks on Sept 11, 2015 19:27:25 GMT -5
Just heard back from Larry. He'll stop by in a couple days to say hi & catch up with friends. He's been busy painting & remodeling the house. Painting the kitchen right now.
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Post by nowyo on Sept 11, 2015 20:34:21 GMT -5
Just heard back from Larry. He'll stop by in a couple days to say hi & catch up with friends. He's been busy painting & remodeling the house. Painting the kitchen right now. I can relate, painting the house here-or was before I came in for supper. Never met Larry but he always posted some good stuff. As far as smells-I grew up on a dairy farm so I have some olfactory memories you really don't want to know about. Russ
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Post by snowmom on Sept 12, 2015 4:01:54 GMT -5
We had fun with this thread a couple years back. There's so many new folks on here, I thought it would be cool to "bump" it up so you can all share.
Olfactory memories are very strong. I happened to smell an odor just yesterday that I hadn't smelled in many, many years. I'm unsure of the actual source, but I happened to smell it as I was walking by a car as someone got out. Aftershave? Cologne? Something inside his car? That scent had been burned into (literally) my memory as a child! I don't know what I was actually smelling, but the scent reminded me of making Creepy Crawlers on a Thingmaker!! If you were born in the later 60's, I'm sure you have no idea what I am talking about, lol. Young whippersnappers! Info on Wiki here.
If you have anything to add, knock yourself out. If not, just enjoy it. Jean
Oh yes I remember creepy crawler smell. just in case you want to sniff that again, check out the "new car smell" in a can from the automotive section of your favorite box store, I think you'll locate the source of that aroma.
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Post by snowmom on Sept 12, 2015 4:11:55 GMT -5
olfactory memories: mingled scent of horse sweat/manure/trail dust/leather and saddle soap, and straw/hay. I wouldn't want to wash after I'd visited the barn. Banana bread baking = mom
roast beef and baked taters= grandmas house
grandmas bathroom always smelled so clean( and it was). Took years to discover she used the old red Lysol and ajax cleaner. The mingled scent is what I remember.
the smell of sidewalk and pavement after a hot dry spell, when it first starts to rain... the hayloft while the hay is curing
the smell right after a lightning storm... the electric charge in the air.
the first time of snow in winter when you can smell the snow before it gets there.
the breath of different trees when you walk under them at dawn. Maple, Oak, etc all have their own scents that seem to linger just under the branches, coming down with the morning dew.
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Post by panamark on Sept 12, 2015 5:44:47 GMT -5
Olfactory memories are very strong. I happened to smell an odor just yesterday that I hadn't smelled in many, many years. I'm unsure of the actual source, but I happened to smell it as I was walking by a car as someone got out. Aftershave? Cologne? Something inside his car? That scent had been burned into (literally) my memory as a child! I don't know what I was actually smelling, but the scent reminded me of making Creepy Crawlers on a Thingmaker!! If you were born in the later 60's, I'm sure you have no idea what I am talking about, lol. Young whippersnappers! Info on Wiki here.Jean, I know exactly what you are talking about. It was in my grandpa's cars. I think it was the plasticizer coming out of the old style plastics {probably another cancer causing thing, LOL} along with rust. Then my grandpa always used to put the plastic covers on his car seats. And yes, creepy crawlers had that memorable smell. And remember "Fizzies" - tablets you drop in water to flavor and "carbonate" it. The smell of ink from copies and old books. Do you mean the smell of the old fashioned blue mimeograph copies we used to get in grade school? I used to like that smell a lot. Ha ha, compare that to iPads now in schools.
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Post by drocknut on Sept 12, 2015 13:46:51 GMT -5
The heavenly scent of mom's homemade spaghetti sauce simmering all day on the stove; made me so hungry I could hardly wait for dinner. The smell of fresh cut grass after I mowed the lawn with the push mower. Also the smell of lilacs brings back fond memories of going to the arboretum in Madison, Wisconsin with my family when I was in high school when all the lilacs were blooming. They had long rows of the bushes and we'd walk around and smell each one until our noses were all sniffed out.
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Post by rockjunquie on Sept 12, 2015 17:00:47 GMT -5
I was thinking of the strange plastics smells, too. Remember those colorforms? The sticky vinyl type thingies? I had some things my Uncle brought back from Japan in the 60's. The plastics smelled so weird, but kinda good, too. I have never smelt it again. Remember the original silly foam and the plastic blow up bubbles, with straws? Both were pulled for years, or, decades even, and then came back out reformulated. I was always sure that plastic bubble stuff would kill me. (Made it all the funner, like the creepy crawlies.)
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Post by mohs on Sept 12, 2015 17:38:33 GMT -5
I just had to taste it
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Post by jamesp on Sept 12, 2015 17:45:13 GMT -5
May have been a southern thing. No smell like it.
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Post by jamesp on Sept 12, 2015 17:50:56 GMT -5
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Post by jamesp on Sept 12, 2015 17:53:07 GMT -5
The ink from the Spirograph
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Post by mohs on Sept 12, 2015 17:59:34 GMT -5
this was another one that was tempting
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Post by mohs on Sept 12, 2015 18:07:34 GMT -5
and how could something that as such a fragrance taste so bad out of the bottle ?
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Post by jakesrocks on Sept 12, 2015 18:15:48 GMT -5
This stuff smelled & tasted better than the white school paste did.
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Post by drocknut on Sept 13, 2015 10:40:32 GMT -5
and how could something that as such a fragrance taste so bad out of the bottle ? Oh my gosh Ed is there something you didn't taste or eat?
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