Sense of Smell

Life on the land can be quite brutal on your nose at times! Then again, we also get to experience the sweetest smells around. Today's nasty smell is fermenting rotten grain. Not pleasant! From day to day I can come home smelling very strongly like sheep poo, dead sheep, rotten grain, fertiliser, diesel, oil, petrol, stock chemicals, wool, wet dog or a yabbie (due to stagnant water that, of course, has to be ridden through on the motorbike!) ;) 

Thankfully I also get to smell freshly mown hay and the sweet scent of baled hay. The honey scented paper bark blossoms. The canola as it hits full bloom, not to mention the iridescent yellow! I get to smell home grown lamb chops on the barbie, the subtle hint of grain in the air at harvest. The sweet ryegrass as the wind ripples through it in waves.

So I guess the smells balance out in the end. As you can imagine, some days, when you literally smell like shit, you just don't have the perspective to see it that way!