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By: cindy

cindy — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:22:00 +0000

these are always so amazing. thank you!!

By: Windsong

Windsong — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:36:00 +0000

Wonderful information here. Thanks for all your time and hard work!

By: Angela

Angela — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:04:00 +0000

Thank you Bish and and Mikki! You guys are great for adding to the sensory description–I appreciate it!

Jessica & PJ, I’m glad the locations help you. I live in Canada but I have inlaws in Texas. 🙂

By: Mary Witzl

Mary Witzl — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:06:00 +0000

TI always like your examples and find them inspiring.

The one farm smell I will never forget is the smell of the milk room -- the odd, almost cheesy combination of sweet and sour mingling with the smell of manure in the background. And don't forget rotting compost!

And now suddenly I feel like writing about farms...

By: PJ Hoover

PJ Hoover — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:02:00 +0000

Do you live in Texas?
Ranch is a great one. But then so are all the locations you come up with!
Thanks again!

By: Mikki S.

Mikki S. — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:14:00 +0000

I’ve lived on a ranch most of my life. Other sights: foals running in the pasture, mares nuzzling the foals, horses’ heads hanging over the half-open doors in the barn, horses sweating as they cool out on the hot walker. Sounds: nickers of the horses greeting the cool morning, lowing of cattle in the distance,the clink of spurs meeting the ground in the barn breezeway, screams of hawks flying low as they hunt. Smells: piquant aroma of molasses and alfalfa feed, richness of newly oiled leather tack, pungent odor of a saddle pad soaked in horse sweat after a long ride, clean sweet smell of a freshly washed horse, sticky-sweet smell of newly-drawn cow’s milk. Tastes: morning dew on your lips as you feed at 5 am, the salt of your sweat as you muck out the stalls, the crispness of an apple as you ride, sweetness of cold water from a brook when you stop to water your horse. Touch: the prick of barbed wire, the sting of prickly cactus, the soft-as-a-feather inside of leather riding gloves, the cold heaviness of wire cutters when you first pick them up, muscle aches after slinging 125 # hay bales into the hay loft.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:30:00 +0000

I am amazed at how you come up with all these details and examples!

By: Bish Denham

Bish Denham — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:27:00 +0000

Another wonderful post. Among other smells are all the animal smells, horse sweat, pig sty smells…