My Childhood Home

Our house was a big old brick house.  And this lilac bush was on the southeast corner of the house.  When they were in full bloom, Mom would go out there and cut off a big bouquet.  And then she had this green glass vase that was tapered out a little...
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The Fragrance of Spring Flowers

I've smelled cows, and I'm tired of smelling cows. That's the reason I got away from them.  They are very stinky beasts.  And when you are around livestock, you smell like livestock. It's just -- I don't know, there are a lot of nice things.  In the spring when the flowers...
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Favorite Essence

Throughout my life I have come across a lot of smells.  One of the smells I enjoyed a lot was Estae Lauder used to make a perfume.  I think they called it Estae. I thought that was the best smelling stuff I ever came across.  I found out what it was...
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Hog Killing Time

When I was just a little boy, it was kind of an old-fashioned kind of farm.  We had all kind of livestock -- hogs and cattle and a few sheep and a chicken house full of chickens and so on.  We were pretty self sufficient. In the fall when it would...
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