Wayne,
Isn't it funny how smells trigger memories, old songs too. I recently recognized an old friend by his cologne. He looked very different, but smelled the same! He always did wear too much.
I don't remember a lot from my childhood. I attribute it to moving (5 schools by the time I was in fourth grade). I think many memories are remembered by being in the same environment and by talking about what happened.
Love, Jean
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Hmmm...peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and milk (as a meal) ALWAYS remind me of disco music! At lunch was about the only time Mom would have a "modern" music station on to get the news. The rest of the time it was classical. And that 5-6 age bracket, sounds familiar...it was those lunches after kindergarten that I remember vividly for some reason. There is one particular song (that I don't even know what the name of it is) that always reminds me.
Katy
Katy
The odor of onions always remind me of my childhood. The first couple of years of my life, a promoter talked my dad into growing onions, (commercially). The first year, he planted just a few acres, and everything went well. The yield was good, and so was the price. Sooooooooo, the next year he let the hammer down, and planted beaucoups of onions, (as did many other farmers in the area).
There was about a 30 acre field of them, right in front of the house, and I can still remember watching him walk into that field, pulling a few onions, and throwing them on the ground in disgust. They were virtually worthless, due to overproduction. He never planted onions again, (except in his garden, of course). To this day, whenever I smell onions, it's easy to recall a vivid image of that field of onions.
We moved the next year, and as Jean mentioned, not much hapened, that was noteworthy, so I don't remember much about those years.
"Old Spice" cologne brings back memories of my teenage years, since that was the first, (and last), cologne I ever tried. It was such a strong odor, that it finally got on my nerves, and I stopped using it. LOL.
Tex
There was about a 30 acre field of them, right in front of the house, and I can still remember watching him walk into that field, pulling a few onions, and throwing them on the ground in disgust. They were virtually worthless, due to overproduction. He never planted onions again, (except in his garden, of course). To this day, whenever I smell onions, it's easy to recall a vivid image of that field of onions.
We moved the next year, and as Jean mentioned, not much hapened, that was noteworthy, so I don't remember much about those years.
"Old Spice" cologne brings back memories of my teenage years, since that was the first, (and last), cologne I ever tried. It was such a strong odor, that it finally got on my nerves, and I stopped using it. LOL.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Wayne,
Now I like you even better because you don't wear cologne. I actually get a headache around people with too much on. I wish I could think of a clever way to tell people they are making me ill.
Old Spice reminds me of the boys in high school, because they all wore it then.
That's interesting about the onions. In Michigan it was Christmas Trees. Lots of farmers turned over their less productive fields to trees. Now when you drive around you see many fields with rows of 20 foot trees. It didn't make much sense to grow them when the timber companies save the tops of timber trees and sell them during the holidays. Matter of fact, they are probably starting to save them now. Ever wonder why they are so dry when we get them?
Love, Jean
Now I like you even better because you don't wear cologne. I actually get a headache around people with too much on. I wish I could think of a clever way to tell people they are making me ill.
Old Spice reminds me of the boys in high school, because they all wore it then.
That's interesting about the onions. In Michigan it was Christmas Trees. Lots of farmers turned over their less productive fields to trees. Now when you drive around you see many fields with rows of 20 foot trees. It didn't make much sense to grow them when the timber companies save the tops of timber trees and sell them during the holidays. Matter of fact, they are probably starting to save them now. Ever wonder why they are so dry when we get them?
Love, Jean
Jean,
LOL. I probably smell like cigars--at least some of the time. Also, I hate to admit it, but I too, usually get a headache when I'm around strong scents of that sort, (not cigars--cologne and strong perfume).
I never cease to be amazed at the things that I learn from this group. Yep, I've always wondered why Christmas trees were so dry, but I sure didn't know that they were often salvaged from big trees. Interesting!
Love,
Wayne
LOL. I probably smell like cigars--at least some of the time. Also, I hate to admit it, but I too, usually get a headache when I'm around strong scents of that sort, (not cigars--cologne and strong perfume).
I never cease to be amazed at the things that I learn from this group. Yep, I've always wondered why Christmas trees were so dry, but I sure didn't know that they were often salvaged from big trees. Interesting!
Love,
Wayne
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.