What's that smell?

[craigwatanabe]

Re: What's that smell?

I saw a guy build up a planter box using the neighbor's wall as part of the box. This buggah decided not to use a plastic liner and filled in the box with dirt and planted his veggies in it.

When I came back a couple of years later he had removed the planter so we could facilitate relocating the neighbor's gas meter we saw the entire part of the wall that was buried in dirt, totally rotted out and you could see the studwork and very pasty drywall leading to the neighbor's interior. I think that part of the wall was the neighbor's closet or bedroom.

[Karen]

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Yes! Uh, I mean no I don't know what people did to their neighbors' walls but I have stood in the yard of one of those zero lot homes and know what ya mean about close.

[craigwatanabe]

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Craig, LOL! Dang bummer......I hear ya. Our first lot in Mililani was so small that I could hear neighbors sneeze and things like that.

The first time I saw a zero-property lot was in Waipio Gentry when we were setting up remote reading gas meters there. I had to get the permission from the tenant/homeowner and the adjacent neighbor to work on a meter. Oh man the horror stories I could tell you about the things I saw people do to their neighbor's walls.

[Karen]

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Craig, LOL! Dang bummer......I hear ya. Our first lot in Mililani was so small that I could hear neighbors sneeze and things like that.

[craigwatanabe]

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Good posts! Man, waking up and smelling bacon or ham and eggs, and baking bread/biscuits takes me back to my childhood weekends. It isn't so much about the food either, it takes me back to the time of what seems a million weekend mornings, Sundays mostly when the family wasn't all rushing out the door, a relaxed, family time and the way Mom made the house smell but we all greatly contributed to...cuz of the love.

Gee one thing that made me consider moving here to the Big Island was when I was living in Kaimuki and I would wake up to the smell of bacon and eggs. Oh yeah my wife's up and making breakfast for us.

Then I realized it was my neighbor Mr. Wee making breakfast for his family next door. My bedroom window and his kitchen window were about 12-feet apart and unfortunately I lived downwind from him. Darn.

[craigwatanabe]

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One of my favorite smells will never ever come back. That is the colored popcorn that eminated throughout most of the Downtown Hilo Kress Store that is long gone.

Speaking of "That Smell"....

http://www.youtube.com/v/sV_toedW2L0&hl=en

When it comes to popcorn, I could be blindfolded and could tell when I was on the ground floor of Sears Ala Moana back in the 60's where the popcorn machine was located, filling those cardboard boxes full of those popped kernels.

Itsu's is the place to go for flavored/colored popcorn in Hilo nowdays.

[Karen]

Re: What's that smell?

Good posts! Man, waking up and smelling bacon or ham and eggs, and baking bread/biscuits takes me back to my childhood weekends. It isn't so much about the food either, it takes me back to the time of what seems a million weekend mornings, Sundays mostly when the family wasn't all rushing out the door, a relaxed, family time and the way Mom made the house smell but we all greatly contributed to...cuz of the love.

[Glen Miyashiro]

Re: What's that smell?

One of my favorite smells will never ever come back. That is the colored popcorn that eminated throughout most of the Downtown Hilo Kress Store that is long gone.

Speaking of "That Smell"....

http://www.youtube.com/v/sV_toedW2L0&hl=en

Good one, mel. I like this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjAPoN8qs0Q

[mel]

Re: What's that smell?

One of my favorite smells will never ever come back. That is the colored popcorn that eminated throughout most of the Downtown Hilo Kress Store that is long gone.

Speaking of "That Smell"....

http://www.youtube.com/v/sV_toedW2L0&hl=en

[Peshkwe]

Re: What's that smell?

Is it the new Advertiser website?

I'm with you on that one!

[kani-lehua]

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impromptu toilet leads to jail: http://starbulletin.com/2008/04/26/news/story09.html

what the heck was this guy thinking? imagine the stench?!

[MyopicJoe]

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Didja ever smell something and immediately it started to bring back a memory from many years back...Trips my trigger when that happens. It's priceless...

The cascade of memories when you catch a wisp of scent is delightful, even when the memory is a bit embarassing.

[Karen]

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Didja ever smell something and immediately it started to bring back a memory from many years back, probably from your childhood? Oh man, I can't even remember precise details but I smelled something a few mos. back and then it brought back the old toys from the sixties, the kaleidoscopes that were in long tubes. Man! that took me to my childhood house in Austin, Tx. and a couple of other memories.

Trips my trigger when that happens. It's priceless...

[buzz1941]

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Is it the new Advertiser website?

[kani-lehua]

Re: What's that smell?

Try leaving a bag of garbage in the trunk of a car for a week, parked in the sun. Thought something up and died in some obscure nook under the back seat.
That was around 7 years ago and it still comes out when we park it out in the sun. Tried everything including carpet deoderizer with baking soda, Febreeze, Lysol, whatever's supposed to kill odors. HAH!

oh, boy! talk about ripe!

reminds me of the time we left an empty kim chee bottle in the recycling bin in the car in the sun (talk about run on sentence). phew! that smell lasted for days.