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Those of you who live in an urban area might have to just to smile and nod through this post. It's okay. I understand. One of the habits my other half and I are working to recultivate is our nightly walks. Although I don't get off work until 9 pm, we live in an area where we can take after dark walks without too much trouble. Well at least no trouble except for the olfactory kind. Rounding the corner to head back up the street for home, I smelled something. Something horrible. A few steps further and the smell changed.. .ahh, that one I recognize eu de cow One of the joys of living in Iowa, or any Midwestern state for that matter, is the farms. Not so many of them are family farms, which alas, contributes to the eu de livestock crap that permeates the air. It smells like money my great grandpa, who was a family farmer used to say, and yeah around here, it usually does. Except nowadays it smells like factory farms and big corporate money, not the small, family farmer money that we'd like to see. A trip down I-80 in the summertime (my car lacks air conditioning, so I rely on one window down and 75mph for my air conditioning) goes like this... Hay. Fresh air. Cow. Pig. Cow. Hay. Well, you get the picture.... It's an art we've cultivated here in Iowa. How to identify the species of livestock by the way they smell. Now that's not to say that Iowa stinks. Not at all. The fragrant bloom of fresh mown hay (achoo!) smells wonderful, as does a crisp, clean morning. I love the smell of horses and leather, and although I return from the barn with eu de horse, yeah, I think it smells pretty darn good. But there are a few places where you can test your mad farmhand skillz in identifying the farm animal by the odor it produces. In writing, scent is probably the least used of the five senses. We describe how something feels, how it looks, how it tastes, but hardly how it smells. And even then we have "floral" women and "musky" men. Think about a fresh orange, that sharp, citrus scent. How does it smell? How would you describe it? The rich aroma of brewing coffee, dark, decadent chocolate. Take a deep breath. Can you smell them?  
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