"Smell good" things in this life.

1. Baby humans with that smell good baby powder on'm.

2. Honeysuckle, lilac blooms and "wild" roses.

3. New tomato vines, green onions and radishes.

4. Puppy breath, baby chikn's and rain.

5. Wood smoke, fryin bakon and soup cooked outside over a woodfire.

6. Fresh brewed coffee, flapjacks and toast.

7. Biskits, sausage gravy and fried eggs.

8. "Rose" hair oil, "Brylcreem" and "Old Spice" aftershave.

9. New 65 Pontiac interior, handcleaner and sassafrass roots.

10. Fresh plowed garden, new cut grass and new mown sweet clover hay.

What is some of your favorite "country smells"? Next will be the question of what's your most horrible smells.

old hoot gibson. Matt.24:44

-- old hoot gibson (hoot@pcinetwork.com), May 29, 2002

Answers

I love the smell of tomato plants!! Roses, rain, freshly plowed dirt, baking bread, oranges...

-- Melissa in SE Ohio (me@home.net), May 29, 2002.

I'll 2nd the honeysuckle, Hoot. It's blooming here now and the smell is wonderful, especially early in the morning. And dirt. ummmmm, to take a handful and just smell it! Peonies are also up there on the list.

-- Annie (mistletoe6@earthlink.net), May 29, 2002.

I'll 3rd the honeysuckle - love it! And watermelon, too!

-- Cheryl in KS (klingonbunny@planetkc.com), May 29, 2002.

When we got back from our Memorial Day get away at the Drag Races our two locust trees were blooming.Very sweet and wonderful to smell. I also love the smell of sweet babies, especially my grandson! and bread baking, which I'm doing right now.

-- Nancy (nannyb@huntel.net), May 29, 2002.

I love the smell of garlic, rain, woodsmoke and bread baking gardenias

-- Cindy (S.E.IN) (atilrthehony_1@yahoo.com), May 29, 2002.

My mom's house. Not sure what makes it smell so good, though. We thought at first that it was the wood stove, but then they switched to coal, and then to propane. The house still smells the same.

I also like the smell of baking bread, campfires, and newly mown hay.

-- Cathy N. (eastern Ontario) (homekeeper86@sympatico.ca), May 29, 2002.

The smell of a horse, 'specially in the summertime....

-- Cindy in IL (ilovecajun@aol.com), May 29, 2002.

alfalfa hay in the barn.

rain.

fresh peaches - makes your mouth water.

garlic

watermelon

(see a food them developing here!?)

-- Christine in OK (cljford@cox.net), May 29, 2002.

Me too on the honeysuckle Orange blossoms new mown hay my mothers cheek when I kissed her gardenia and night bloomin jasmine canning tomatoes or green beans fresh baked bread after it rains on a hot day the cool smell of the twilight sweet pipe tobacco Old spice aftershave and Bay Rum Mama fryin chicken on Sunday Mornin Ponds cold cream I'd better stop. Blessings Peggy

-- Peggy (peggyan2@msn.com), May 29, 2002.

OOoooooh... I just remembered one.....

When you open a fresh box of tea bags -- that is one great smell!

-- Cheryl in KS (klingonbunny@planetkc.com), May 31, 2002.

oooooh BABIES!

-- Ann Markson (tngreenacres@hotmail.com), May 31, 2002.