Been leaving the house windows open (and occasionally attic fan on) for the last several days. Tea olive trees are starting to bloom so if the wind is marginally still (especially early in the morning) it smells amazing… Both inside and out!
@catthegreat
Tea olives AKA (osmanthus fragens) lists as being a small tree or shrub. Mine are over 20 ft tall.
They are evergreen here in Central Alabama and produce tiny clusters of extremely fragrant flowers. Due to their evergreen nature and thickness of the large leafed foliage they make excellent screening plants between you and your neighbors. I went back and looked at mine and I realized that the clusters on it were from flowers from last year (fall). The scent I had been noticing in the yard over the past few days has been from all the gardenias blooming!
Mea culpa.
@catthegreat@chienfou I’m just trying to get my one potted gardenia to bloom; it’s indoors and unfortunately I discovered it has mealybugs, dammit! I got it from someone who was giving plants away on Nextdoor and I can’t help suspecting that she knew it had them. I’ve been swabbing and spraying rubbing alcohol on it, but it’s a skeletal version of its former lush self right now.
@Kyeh I made them in a cooking class, but I took home a extra batch of dough, so I have to make more in the next day or two. And sorry, @pmarin, I’m not accepting orders. They’re quite time and labor intensive, so I probably won’t be making any more after the next batch for quite a while.
@ItalianScallion@pmarin I’m so impressed!!! I’ve watched people make them on cooking shows and it looks incredibly time consuming and complicated. You should have some pistachio butter to put on them!
@ItalianScallion@Kyeh@pmarin Waiting impatiently for Meh to put up a discount 3D molecular printer, aka replicator. I can probably live with the results tasting or smelling a little funny, at least I hope I can.
@phendrick Well at least yours can. My mortgage company wouldn’t finance the upgrade cost, so it has to just sit there all day running the HVAC not knowing what anything smells like.
Mine smells of the wisteria at the moment. Also the Spanish lavender
Loving the weather and can’t wait for spring to roll into summer and have all of the things growing.
@Kyeh@sillyheathen
Nice!
I love the smell of wisteria. I had let some get away into a hedge and I’m trying to reclaim it and get it contained into one area but it is beautiful when it blooms in the spring and on still, damp mornings it blankets the entire yard with that lovely fragrance.
Obviously here in the deep South we’re way “ahead” of you. Irises are all pretty much done but knockout roses are starting to really pick up and we have lots of other annuals blooming around the yard as well.
The veggie garden is doing well with small yellow squash and blooms on the tomatoes, peppers, cukes and zucchinis starting to form fruit. Been eating blueberries for a week or so and the figs are showing tiny fruit as well. Peaches are walnut size as are the pears and some tiny apples starting to form.
I’m a happy guy!
I don’t think it has much of an odor as I leave the doors and windows open all day (weather has been perfect) and keep the house clean.
The exception is my roommate’s bedroom and bathroom. I’ve been in his room and it smells like dirty teenage boy and his bathroom smells like old moldy towel because he doesn’t wash his towel often.
@kittykat9180 ok. Dank towels 100% smell. I forget to put things in the dryer on rare occasions and that’s a smell when you walk in the laundry room. I rerun the washer
At the same time… You come out of the shower I hope clean? So hang up your towel and it dries. How does that happen? Really high humidity?
@unksol moisturize is a breeding ground for bacteria. The towel is damp and warm after drying off allowing bacteria to grow exponentially. (Bacteria is everywhere unless you’re cleaning with bleach or alcohol)
I once went into his bathroom and was about knocked over by the smell of his nasty towel. I don’t know how he doesn’t realize that he smells like stank ass towel after he dries off.
@kittykat9180 I realize… But… There isn’t that much moisture on you. Towels dry pretty quick. Unless you’re in the Gulf area with no bathroom fan. That I would get.
@unksol how is there not much water on you when you literally just had a flow of it steaming down your body?
My towel takes a couple hours to dry, even here in the desert and the number of bacteria can double in just 20 minutes. Meaning 1 million bacterial cells can be 8 million after just an hour.
Humidity is usually 50% when it gets over that it’s AC time. So things dry out fine. Obviously if it’s 80% you have problems. Which it can get to here even on a nice night in Summer so. Def not leaving the windows open constantly. But it’s nothing like the Carolinas by the coast or Georgia
@kittykat9180@unksol
At this time of year (trying to stretch out the start of AC season) our humidity runs 65-90% a lot of times. A towel will easily take 3-4 hours to dry totally if it is hung up on a rack after use. Even so it doesn’t take many days to let the towels start smelling funky. Obviously if you toss it in a heap on the floor that will extend the drying time (and shorten the ‘get funky’ time).
@chienfou@kittykat9180 Midwest so it isn’t that hot/wet yet. Highs in the low 70s but it does spike if I leave the windows open when it’s been raining.
Towels on the floor… I mean I’m a lazy bachelor a lot of the time. But. That’s. Over a line. IDK which specific line. But one of them has been crossed.
@chienfou@unksol, I suspect the roommate goes months without washing his towel.
What I don’t understand is how he can dry off with it and not realize that he smells like funky towel.
Good! This is one of my favorite times of year. Jasmine season leads into gardenia season leads into ylang ylang season (still hoping this is the year my tree blooms). Got a stargazer lily for Easter that smelled heavenly, too.
@Kyeh@Weboh Daphne is my favorite - there is a sprawling one planted in front of my porch and it smells wonderful when sitting out there while it is blooming. Unfortunately, ours is done for the season. The wisteria at the end of the porch is blooming now, but it is a distant second (aroma-wise) to the daphne, IMO.
@macromeh@Weboh I love the daphne, and I also love the Hall’s honeysuckle that blooms later. I’ve always wanted to find perfumes that truly capture those scents, but I never have.
@Kyeh@macromeh@Weboh
Yep. There’s a lot to be said for having blooming plants around the yard with strong fragrances. On still mornings sitting on the porch having a cup of coffee (and posting to meh forums ) is particularly enjoyable. Our wisteria have been done for about a month now and our jasmine and especially the daisy gardenias are really coming into play. (Pic above)
Been leaving the house windows open (and occasionally attic fan on) for the last several days. Tea olive trees are starting to bloom so if the wind is marginally still (especially early in the morning) it smells amazing… Both inside and out!
@chienfou Tell more about tea olive trees?
@chienfou yes more about the trees! also, where do you live?
@catthegreat
Tea olives AKA (osmanthus fragens) lists as being a small tree or shrub. Mine are over 20 ft tall.
They are evergreen here in Central Alabama and produce tiny clusters of extremely fragrant flowers. Due to their evergreen nature and thickness of the large leafed foliage they make excellent screening plants between you and your neighbors. I went back and looked at mine and I realized that the clusters on it were from flowers from last year (fall). The scent I had been noticing in the yard over the past few days has been from all the gardenias blooming!
Mea culpa.
@catthegreat @chienfou I’m just trying to get my one potted gardenia to bloom; it’s indoors and unfortunately I discovered it has mealybugs, dammit! I got it from someone who was giving plants away on Nextdoor and I can’t help suspecting that she knew it had them.
I’ve been swabbing and spraying rubbing alcohol on it, but it’s a skeletal version of its former lush self right now.
Just reheated some croissants I made yesterday to have with my morning cappuccino. Ah, the wonderful aromas of baking. Yum!
@ItalianScallion Homemade croissants?!?
@ItalianScallion @Kyeh I have free shipping so I’d like to order 6.
@ItalianScallion recipe??? please???
@Kyeh I made them in a cooking class, but I took home a extra batch of dough, so I have to make more in the next day or two. And sorry, @pmarin, I’m not accepting orders.
They’re quite time and labor intensive, so I probably won’t be making any more after the next batch for quite a while.
@ItalianScallion @pmarin I’m so impressed!!! I’ve watched people make them on cooking shows and it looks incredibly time consuming and complicated. You should have some pistachio butter to put on them!
@ItalianScallion @Kyeh @pmarin Waiting impatiently for Meh to put up a discount 3D molecular printer, aka replicator. I can probably live with the results tasting or smelling a little funny, at least I hope I can.
KuoH
@ItalianScallion @kuoh @Kyeh
/image meme Star Trek Picard replicator Tea Earl Grey
I think he actually specified the temperature in °C
Also he looks more angry than usual; maybe a man that REALLY needs his tea NOW!
Great, Just cleaned the Cat Box
/showme great smelling cats
@mediocrebot
/showme great smelling salts
@mediocrebot
/showme great cats reacting to smelling salts
Something went terribly wrong. Please try again.
/showme cats reacting to smelling salts for the first time
@mediocrebot what
/showme people reacting to smelling salts
@mediocrebot okay
/showme the difference between smelling salts and sniffing smells and snorting cocaine
@mediocrebot good job
@mediocrebot @pakopako Wonder how the bot trained for that last image?
It only smells strange after a several day trip.
@hchavers Stop letting it go on trips.
@hchavers lol nose blindness is probably not the best sign
Not smelling very well now, its nostrils are too clogged up from too much hay fever to inhale very deeply.
@phendrick Well at least yours can. My mortgage company wouldn’t finance the upgrade cost, so it has to just sit there all day running the HVAC not knowing what anything smells like.
KuoH
There’s the cats but a bit of a burn of vodka so… I’m not sure I’m smelling anything… Also got to have the windows open half the day.
Mixed bag really
/showme a mixed bag of smells
The wildflowers say it smells like coffee and whisky but I don’t smell it anymore.
@Star2236 Reminds me it’s 5 O’clock here (always 5 somewhere…) though it’s AM. Time for some coffee and whiskey. Oh no, might be out of whiskey!
@pmarin @Star2236 It would be worse if you were out of coffee!
@ItalianScallion @pmarin @Star2236 damned straight… oh wait
Mine smells of the wisteria at the moment. Also the Spanish lavender
Loving the weather and can’t wait for spring to roll into summer and have all of the things growing.
@sillyheathen Beautiful!
@Kyeh @sillyheathen
Irises are all pretty much done but knockout roses are starting to really pick up and we have lots of other annuals blooming around the yard as well.
Nice!
I love the smell of wisteria. I had let some get away into a hedge and I’m trying to reclaim it and get it contained into one area but it is beautiful when it blooms in the spring and on still, damp mornings it blankets the entire yard with that lovely fragrance.
Obviously here in the deep South we’re way “ahead” of you.
The veggie garden is doing well with small yellow squash and blooms on the tomatoes, peppers, cukes and zucchinis starting to form fruit. Been eating blueberries for a week or so and the figs are showing tiny fruit as well. Peaches are walnut size as are the pears and some tiny apples starting to form.
I’m a happy guy!
@sillyheathen @Kyeh @chienfou Nice! Our wisteria has gone kind of nuts this year:
@chienfou @macromeh @sillyheathen That’s stunning! Does the fragrance scent your house?
@Kyeh @macromeh @sillyheathen
Absolutely beautiful. Reminds me of some of the places we’ve been to in Europe!
@chienfou @Kyeh @sillyheathen Not so much in the house (the office is in that front corner of the house), but definitely on the covered front porch.
I don’t think it has much of an odor as I leave the doors and windows open all day (weather has been perfect) and keep the house clean.
The exception is my roommate’s bedroom and bathroom. I’ve been in his room and it smells like dirty teenage boy and his bathroom smells like old moldy towel because he doesn’t wash his towel often.
@kittykat9180 ok. Dank towels 100% smell. I forget to put things in the dryer on rare occasions and that’s a smell when you walk in the laundry room. I rerun the washer
At the same time… You come out of the shower I hope clean? So hang up your towel and it dries. How does that happen? Really high humidity?
@unksol moisturize is a breeding ground for bacteria. The towel is damp and warm after drying off allowing bacteria to grow exponentially. (Bacteria is everywhere unless you’re cleaning with bleach or alcohol)
I once went into his bathroom and was about knocked over by the smell of his nasty towel. I don’t know how he doesn’t realize that he smells like stank ass towel after he dries off.
@kittykat9180 I realize… But… There isn’t that much moisture on you. Towels dry pretty quick. Unless you’re in the Gulf area with no bathroom fan. That I would get.
Towels just dry out here… Not an issue
@unksol how is there not much water on you when you literally just had a flow of it steaming down your body?
My towel takes a couple hours to dry, even here in the desert and the number of bacteria can double in just 20 minutes. Meaning 1 million bacterial cells can be 8 million after just an hour.
@kittykat9180 not much after you dry off.
Humidity is usually 50% when it gets over that it’s AC time. So things dry out fine. Obviously if it’s 80% you have problems. Which it can get to here even on a nice night in Summer so. Def not leaving the windows open constantly. But it’s nothing like the Carolinas by the coast or Georgia
@unksol I’ve lived in FL and NC. Never again! I can’t stand the humidity.
@kittykat9180 @unksol
At this time of year (trying to stretch out the start of AC season) our humidity runs 65-90% a lot of times. A towel will easily take 3-4 hours to dry totally if it is hung up on a rack after use. Even so it doesn’t take many days to let the towels start smelling funky. Obviously if you toss it in a heap on the floor that will extend the drying time (and shorten the ‘get funky’ time).
@chienfou @kittykat9180 Midwest so it isn’t that hot/wet yet. Highs in the low 70s but it does spike if I leave the windows open when it’s been raining.
Towels on the floor… I mean I’m a lazy bachelor a lot of the time. But. That’s. Over a line. IDK which specific line. But one of them has been crossed.
@chienfou @unksol, I suspect the roommate goes months without washing his towel.
What I don’t understand is how he can dry off with it and not realize that he smells like funky towel.
Good! This is one of my favorite times of year. Jasmine season leads into gardenia season leads into ylang ylang season (still hoping this is the year my tree blooms). Got a stargazer lily for Easter that smelled heavenly, too.
@Weboh last week there was a discussion of cat sounds and “ylang ylang” could be one of them.
@Weboh Wow, that sounds heavenly. My yard currently has lilacs and daphne, which are especially fragrant in the evening.
I love spring!
@Kyeh @Weboh Daphne is my favorite - there is a sprawling one planted in front of my porch and it smells wonderful when sitting out there while it is blooming. Unfortunately, ours is done for the season. The wisteria at the end of the porch is blooming now, but it is a distant second (aroma-wise) to the daphne, IMO.
@macromeh @Weboh I love the daphne, and I also love the Hall’s honeysuckle that blooms later. I’ve always wanted to find perfumes that truly capture those scents, but I never have.
@Kyeh @macromeh @Weboh
) is particularly enjoyable. Our wisteria have been done for about a month now and our jasmine and especially the daisy gardenias are really coming into play. (Pic above)
Yep. There’s a lot to be said for having blooming plants around the yard with strong fragrances. On still mornings sitting on the porch having a cup of coffee (and posting to meh forums
@chienfou @macromeh @Weboh So lucky!
Gardenias are going crazy out front.
I’m about to sneeze and some stranger says “bless you”. Makes me wonder about how this is like in Hell.
https://tapas.io/episode/1566552
@pakopako I’ve sneezed in stores and had unseen people in the next aisle bless me.
We were burning candles tonight!