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Post by lbowman1 on Feb 24, 2007 19:07:40 GMT -5
I was coming home from a flea market today and passed by a farmer plowing a field. Freshly tilled earth after resting all winter is one of the best smells. Now I finally feel like it might be spring soon.
Of course after the manure goes on it loses some of it's appeal but for a few minutes it was great!
Lori
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Post by rockyraccoon on Feb 24, 2007 22:38:13 GMT -5
lori the sound of crop dusters and tractors is a sign of spring here too.
kim
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Debs
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Post by Debs on Feb 24, 2007 23:50:15 GMT -5
I know that smell well. It is going to be awhile before I get to smell that. I am sitting here during a winter blizzard. Half our city is without power. I am sure hoping our power doesn't go out or it is going to get real cold around here...burr!!! Is it spring yet?
Deb
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rollingstone
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Post by rollingstone on Feb 25, 2007 5:08:16 GMT -5
Hmm, not any fresh-earth smells in these parts for awhile yet. I went ice-fishing Saturday -- 2.5 feet of ice on the big lakes now -- thank goodness for gas-powered ice-augers, as drilling those 10 holes with a hand-auger would have been a chore! ;D
-Don
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Post by Cher on Feb 25, 2007 10:13:21 GMT -5
Freshly tilled fields, freshly mowed lawns ... yeah that will be awhile. Our ground is basically permafrost now, be May before they are plowing any fields up.
Don, you make me laugh. I remember as a kid going ice fishing and chopping holes in the ice with a hatchet, then sitting there freezing our butts to the ice hoping to catch a sunny.
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stefan
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Post by stefan on Feb 25, 2007 17:38:37 GMT -5
Well we had about 2 feet of our snow melt off last week- Then got 18 inches!!! But I did go out skiing yesterday- It was WONDERFUL to be in the woods- Of course more snow tonight!
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Post by cpdad on Feb 25, 2007 21:43:30 GMT -5
lori that brings up 1 of the craziest and best memories of my mom...before she past away...she had lost both of her legs amputated above the knees...and her eyesight was going pretty fast...but she liked for me to drive her around outside of the city so she could see the cattle and planted fields..stuff like that.
1 day when we were going by a freshly tilled field...she told me to stop and get her wheelchair out and take her to the tilled field...and when i got her there she told me to help her out of the chair...and she played in the tilled dirt like a 4 year old for about 20 minutes...she told me she smelled the dirt from the car a mile away.
she past away about 2 weeks later...she loved the smell of oranges..her parents had orange groves and cattle near orlando florida growing up...and she loved the smell of apples...my dads family had apple orchards in saluda north carolina.
where the tilled dirt came in ...i dont know...but she knew what she wanted to play in before she past away...kev.
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Post by lbowman1 on Feb 25, 2007 22:23:42 GMT -5
What a cool story. Back when I had a place to grow one I was into gardening. I love the smell of dirt and the feel of soil in my hands. To me it's a clean, holsome, wonderful thing that points to new growth and the continuence of life. Without dirt there's not going to be much life on Earth. Maybe that was the sort of thing your mom felt when she played in the dirt.
Lovely story. Thanks for sharing that.
Lori
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Post by Condor on Feb 25, 2007 23:17:26 GMT -5
Can't say I know what that smell is like, but if it's anything like the smell of the desert after a good rain, then it is a beautiful smell indeed.
Condor
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