Showing posts with label taste. Show all posts
Showing posts with label taste. Show all posts

07 February 2010

Smell-o-meter....

Usually, this guy is my best-est friend
along 'bout 4 pm...
I go searching for him...
in his squat roundness....
as he brews up the water for my coffee or tea...
but...

Have you ever been so stuffed up, clogged up...
congested...
that you couldn't smell or taste a thing?

Well, that has been my world for the last few days...
Normally, I have the smelling ability of a bloodhound, really,
I was told that by a man from the "gas" company 2 decades ago.
I had called them, having smelled gas, and he was at my door in minutes.
He pulled out a special "smellometer" and started walking around my kitchen...
nope, I says, its in the hallway. He just smirked. I gritted my teeth.
Finally, when no alarms went off in the kitchen, he strolled past our hallway,
BEEP!
"Lady, you got a nose like a bloodhound".
I took that as a compliment,
having been the proud mother of 2 basset hounds at the time.

(and one 2 yr old)

So...
The last few have been tough.
My sweetie has made wonderful meals,
brought me my hot coffee,
and tea,
and cookies,
and ice cream....
not one smell.
and thus,
not much taste.

It stinks....opps,
no it sucks.
smiles.

22 November 2009

Tastes from the past....


enjoyed today....

This morning brought a breakfast flooded with memories..

It all started with a visit.
Several days ago,
a sweet lady named Anne
came to see me...
she had a photographic need..
that I am in the process of filling.
But what she brought for me
is pertinent here.
She brought eggs.
Eggs from her farm,
her chickens,
her effort,
her loving care.

These eggs were purposely saved for Sunday morning.
As they are special.
And
when I took my first bite....

I remembered....

being a child,
waking up to the smell of bacon...
toast,
grits,
fried green tomatoes,
biscuits,
honey,
oh my!

These were REAL eggs.

I had forgotten what a real egg
tastes like.

How sad....
I didn't even know,
really...

that I had fallen into the same trap
 that we all have fallen into,
at one time or another.

The trap of convenience.
The neighborhood chain store,
that brings us everything we need.....


or does it?

Maybe not.
As these eggs reminded me,
Eggs have a taste.
They are not bland.
Not real eggs.

I think I will ask for the photographic bill
to be paid in eggs...
smiles.