Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady for June 06, 2023

Most places around me are used to us. ;)

I personally prefer the earthy smells of the barn to the smells of the city. It is more honest I think. The smells of life opposed to the smells of decay, for want of a better word.

I grew up in farm country. I love the smell of dairy barn! Now I live where the local odor is tidal mud flats. :-( After 23 years, I’m still not inured to it.

love the smell of the back bay at low tide, molding hay and horse dung not so much.

Yeah, to Rigby everything smells normal…

There is usually a barn smell, no matter how clean the barn is.

Grandma has a horse.That puts Pasquale two up on the other kids in his school class

Oh yes, there is :D but it’s a calming aroma if one is used to it. Barn work (when the critters are elsewhere sometimes) is quiet therapy for some of us.

Barn smell is the Best!!

One whiff of cow patties and instantly I’m transported back to the visit my family made to my uncle’s cattle ranch in 1968.

There’s a reason why “dairy air” sounds like derrière.

I wonder if the horse has a first name of Eleanor?

Some friends & I had gone to a Milwaukee Bucks game at the Bradley Center. Doug’s wife’s family owned & ran a dairy farm, & his brother-in-law joined us. He had come straight from the milking barn wearing the work-clothes, & soon we & those around us were making faces & wrinkling our noses at the smell of cow manure.

At the end of the second quarter this apparently occurred to him, & he commented “Gee, I suppose I should have showered & put on clean clothes first!”

Hay! Watchoo talkin’ ’bout?

My daughter, who has never lived in the country, loves it when we drive by a cow barn. She loves the smell of the country. My grandfather was a dairy farmer and my mother was raised on a farm. She tried to bring a little farm into our lives wherever we were. My daughter grew up around animals and gardens and such. My sister raised chickens and turkeys and ducks and we would farm sit for her, so my daughter had some experience. We would go visit relatives in my mother’s home town (less than 1000 people and some relatives still have farm animals) and my daughter would be right in there with the animals, feeding them and cleaning out the barn. Definitely ready to be a county person. She is almost 40 and still remains dedicated to the country.

We took our 3 or 4 year old daughter to a cow barn. After we got back in the car, her comment was, “Cows have gas.”

Now you’ve offended the horse.

I have lived in rural country town for most of my life and you do start to get accustomed to the smells after a short time so even at the beginning of farmers planting season isn’t really that bad and you hardly smell it anymore and if you do it isn’t a big deal. I use to live in a suburb of Buffalo NY and I will never live in or near a city again. Give me my country smells and animals and I am content.