Smell Your Way Through The Day

The Wiggles have it right. Those smells are very yummy. I would love to sit here at this moment and say I can smell dinner cooking in the oven. But, nope. Can't do it. Point 1, I am not cooking anything as it is mid-day. Point 2, I am not going to cook tonight. I don't feel like it. That is the awesome thing about a husband and kids who love sandwiches. I rarely HAVE to cook if I don't want to. However, that is not what this is about.

So, when we lived in Brazil we lived next to the river Marginal Tiete. In high Summer it stunk to high Heaven. I mean, you could actually feel the smell running in between your teeth like you could chew it. Though I do not know what a burning pig farm would smell like, I would attribute the smell to that.

Onto to clean and lovely Switzerland. Switzerland is awesome! Truly. It creates the best chocolates in the world. What's not to love! And it has cows. Everywhere. I love cows. As I have said before, they are my spirit animal. I also love my boys. However, I do not like how either smells. Okay, so I am not up close and personal with cows. So how would I know if their stink is anywhere close to my boys' smell? Well let me tell you. So in Switzerland it is very difficult to find pesticides and herbicides and fertilizers, unless they are of the organic kind. Very Earth friendly the Swiss are. So Spring is here! Yey! Time to smells the flowers blooming and trees budding! Um well no. First, before any of that happens things need to be fertilized and fields need to be tilled. What that also means is the farmers are out fertilizing their fields to get ready for planting. So, Jen? Who cares? Well...

So this is how they fertilize fields. The farmers take all of the winter cow poo that has been hanging around in a big pile, dump it into haulers behind tractors, take the poo carts out into the fields, and use a GIANT spray gun to shoot it ALL OVER the fields. A. Giant. Poo. Gun. Like spray painting the field with poo. I am dead serious. I wish I took a picture of this because, well just because. This way of fertilizing is not a problem, except... That dried up old poo? It becomes poo dust and floats in the air. If you are lucky  it can coat you, your dog, your shoes, your car. So everything kinda smells like poo for a bit. Oh and it can also get lodged in your nose so all you smell is poo. I had to ask my husband repeatedly last night if I smelled like poo. Nope. Okay, good.

Oh, and FYI you can be going into your child's school for a meeting while chewing lovely peppermint gum and end up chewing cow poo Trident. Tasty!!