Ahhhh...fresh air

Imagine waking up in the morning. The sun is shining, the birds are chirping outside the window...it's another beautiful day. I think I will take my puppies for their morning walk and then spend some time in my gardens. Oh, yes, I can't wait to get out there and breathe in all that nature has waiting for me. The dogs and I walk to the door with smiles on our faces, step outside, and take a deep breath of--WHAT THE HELL IS THAT SMELL?! Oh. Blech. Somebody make it stop.

Now, when I first moved here, I would look around trying to find the source of the incredible stench. Check the garbage. Check for rotting, dead animals. Check to see if the sewers spilled over. I actually called in a work order once because I honestly thought some poor animal had gotten trapped inside the siding of my house and was slowly decaying in there. Out came the maintenance men and ripped off the siding...no dead critters. After a couple of weeks, I just figured out that this is just the smell of Louisiana...the smell of stagnant swamp water baking in the heat. A team of scientists should come study this stuff because, seriously, anything that smells this bad must be an alternate source of fuel or have some new, mutated organisms growing in it that can cure anything from hangnails to Hodgkin's.

For now, I'm buying stock in the Renuzit company because I will single handedly keep them in business buying air fresheners, air cleaners, air deoderizers, and air sanitizers. Every time I open my door, a little bit of that "fresh" air finds its way inside my house. Mmmmmm.