Originally posted by wolflady
She would say "ahh....the fresh country air!"
Exactly!!! That's what we always said. I'm not a farm girl, but I am a country girl having grown up in Northern WI surrounded by fields that the farmers just loved to spread with fresh manure. Actually, plain old manure isn't bad, the old fashioned way, but this liquid manure they have these days is horrendous! My mom walks 5 miles every morning and she says when the farmers have just spread the fields, she has to undress in the basement by the washing machine before coming upstairs because just in that 5 miles the smell will get so embedded in her clothes that if she comes in the house with them on, the house will reek for days!

One of the first times I brought Terry to my parents, as we got further North we could get wiffs here and there and the one time I said "Aaaahhhhh...fresh country air." He, being born and raised in Chicago, looked at me like I had lost my mind and said "What are you talking about? It smells like cow s.... to me."