Good Smell, Bad Smell, Death and Decay Smell
Lovely picture, right?
Let me tell you,
they smell wonderful!
They grow wild along the road around here.
People have told me that they are called
Russian Olives.
I have high hopes that they will root and I can plant them
somewhere in the yard.
Anyway,
those of you that follow along
know that there are stories
here that are
a bit bizarre.
As many as there are that I tell...
there are many more that I choose to keep under wraps.
This one probably should be..
but too funny, weird,
well words might not describe this incident.
A couple of weeks ago
a friend brought more of those deer skulls for me to paint.
I put them in my car.
Also, right around that time,
we got a load of ground beef.
(This will be important later in the story)
Later the same deer head day,
I opened my car door to the smell of death and decay.
Apparently the deer heads were not completely clean.
Immediately, they were laid outside to air out.
A day or so later,
I put them in the basement.
My basement looks somewhat like a mild episode of
Hoarders,
I choose to call it
Stage One Hoarding.
The basement started smelling
almost instantly.
Of course,
I blamed the deer heads.
After a couple of days
of sprays,
candles.
deodorizers,
the deer heads went to the porch.
However,
the smell did not go away.
More sprays,
the whole drill,
until
last
Wednesday.
I went down to dig through the 200 or so cabinet doors
that are down there
to find just the right one.
And there it was....
A
PACK
OF
GROUND BEEF!
And....
this is the part
I am not wanting to tell...
mouse chewings.
Apparently,
now not only do we have death and decay
smell in the basement,
we have
more
mice!
I just can't get rid of them.
Guess I could quit feeding them!
Then,
not thinking,
I picked it up and threw it in the garbage in the kitchen,
fully planning on taking the bag out and replacing it.
and
FORGOT
about it.
FOR
TWO
DAYS!
Until the death and decay smell smacked me in the face
Friday morning.
The deer heads?
Before the ground beef,
I contacted the owner of the deer heads and
apparently
they were not cleaned properly.
Double smell whammy!
JWS calls it
Stage Two Hoarding.
When it involves food and animals...
Stage Two.
Apparently
Stage Three Hoarding
is after the animals die.
Such an expert, that man.
Comments
Teresa's Heartfelt Stitches
Cathy
Angela
We had a dead animal come through the sump pipe once and died in the sump hole. I knew something smelled really bad. JB went to look and yup my nose was right, anyways I hear ya. And you never forget that smell either. Good grief next time you get deer heads to paint ask first if they have been cleaned. How did the ground beef get into a cupboard? you must have had a lot on your mind that day. ACK....
Have a better weekend. Those flowers look lovely.
Les♥
I still think you'd have a best seller on your hands if you wrote a book ;-)
Wishing you an "uneventful" weekend~
JoAnn
As for your flowers, I love the smell of Russian Olive (also called Bohemian Olive) so much, that I had Sylvain plant a tree right in front of the house so the smell could waft in on the breeze. I think it is the most beautiful smell. I have a fragrant rose in my garden that I absolutely love, but it doesn't beat my Russian Olive. Ours flower for only two weeks and they usually start smelling the first week of June.
Once you've smelled a Russian Olive, you can always tell when there's one around. Even the slightest breeze will carry the sweet smell.
Linda
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Vicky
I am laughing so hard, not at you hopefully with you because I would do the same thing!!
Need to go dry my eyes!
Barb
And I can say that emphatically because I KNOW that smell! :o I'm not particularly fond of the smell of raw ground beef to begin with - but got the full aroma horror experience once when DH took a package out of the frig to get at something else and placed it on top of the frig - where it lingered for days. (Hey, I'm not THAT tall!)
Here I thought you were going to tell me those Russian olive blooms smelled bad..... I've never seen nor heard of those before - they're gorgeous! Robin