On Easter weekend I went to visit my family five hours away. My mum was widowed many years ago and has a great new husband - someone we all knew for years. He had a dairy farm until his daughter and son-in-law took it over, and now he and my mum live a few doors away from the original farm and house. On Sunday, when we were arriving back at Mum's after being at my sister, the wind was blowing just right and the scent of cow manure was pretty strong.
I don't know about you, but cow manure doesn't smell bad to me. Maybe because I grew up with it. Then again, I grew up near a chicken farm too, and we did see someone spreading chicken manure on our drive back and the scent was enough to make me gasp. There is something NOT NICE about hogs and chickens. ANYWAY, my girls were like...eeew, cow poop! And my husband looked at me and said, "That's the smell of money."
You see, while my husband was not a farmer, he did work a lot of summers for his uncle, who was, and that saying is straight from Uncle Don.
When we went inside, we talked for quite a while about cows, and the stink of silage, first and second cuts of hay, and general farm stuff. It was really, really nice.
These days farmers are really struggling, and "the smell of money" isn't very accurate. But for all that, it's still the smell of home. And that's nice.
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4 comments:
Donna ~ This book is at the top of my TBR. I got it yesterday from eHarlequin. I don't mind cows or cattle smell but I agree pigs and chickens can be overpowering. I grew up in a small town and my parents had many friends who lived on the farm. My sister lives on a farm with some cattle around.
I think the worse smell in the world has to be hot tar that they use in roofing or paving the roads.
My mother grew up on a chicken farm and to this day won't eat chicken,except wings, which they never had.
We had cows all over when I was growing up even tho we had the veggie farm. It doesn't bother me at all.
You can't beat the smell of home, where ever it is. HONEYMOON WITH THE RANCHER looks wonderful.
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The smell of chickens really IS unbearable!!! Close by there's a place that often reeks when the wind blows our way. Unbelievable how such small animals can smell SO badly. Cow's anyday, I'd say.
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