Monday, June 18, 2012

Smell That Fresh Country Air...

I made the mistake of hanging out our bath towels to dry on Saturday...

It was a gorgeous drying day, with a strong south air, but...


...it was also a great day for hauling pit manure.

Take a whiff...can you smell that fresh country air?

15 comments:

  1. Haha that is cute. They must have been putting down lots of manure. My husband used to work at a Carrot plant and the water they used to rinse the carrots went down into a sump. They would have to dredge the sumps every so often. I imagine the spreading of the manure would smell the same way.
    Not what you want your laundry to smell like. :)

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  2. lol ... just had this conversation with a transplant this morning. She asked if one ever gets used to it ... I said the natural manure, yea, you get used to that but the liquid manure, NO WAY ... never get used to that one!

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    1. I agree!! And I should know by now not to hang out laundry, but it was already hung out when he started spreading! :)

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  3. Hey, that stuff is liquid gold!

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  4. for that reason I do not hang out wash, there is nothing else that comes close to that smell.

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  5. I like the team of mules used to pull the tank. Are your neighbors Amish? I was so impressed by the beautiful and well cared for animals owned by the farmers I saw in Amish country. Manure spreading smell---not so much.

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  6. Thanks for getting back to me. I love the greenness, the rolling hills and handsome farms of your part of the world.

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    1. Thanks Leenie...next time you head east, look us up!!

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  7. I was always told that manure was the smell of money :)
    Know what you mean about picking days for line drying. Around here it is the smell of smoke...uggg. Have put a clothes rack up in the spare bedroom for drying clothes. I really dislike using my dryer in the warm weather. You know me and how I like to see clothes drying on a line :)
    Love the picture!

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  8. Oops, usually it is nice to snuggle into sheets hung out on the line. I may get grass clippings in ours, but that is about the worst of it. Hope they got a second washing :-)

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  9. Great picture, love that they are using a team of mules! :)
    Not so good for drying clothes on the line though. Blech!

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  10. Oh dear...
    Well, that's what comes with living in the country I suppose :)
    Around here... it's Thursdays that you want to be careful hanging the wash; as that's the day that the turkey plant processes.
    Burning feathers...nice....NOT!
    We're pretty lucky that we don't smell it every week, just once in a while when the wind blows just right.

    I love, love, love that wagon and team. How great!!

    Drat about you selling your dehydrator! No lie... dried pears~~ they are better than chocolate!!

    Catch ya later...
    Kerin

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  11. Oh, I can certainly smell that fresh country air! :-)

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  12. I like the picture of your farm! despite the stinky manure..haha! that is a beautiful shot!

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