"A Certain Smell......"

I love collards, and I love to cook them and serve 'em up .
Yesterday, I took a gigantic 'steamer table sized' pan of them to our potluck.
The 'pot likker' spilled out onto my car carpet ... a rather large amount.
The floor board was soaked.
I spent some time cleaning it up the best I could.
This morning when I got in the car...the smell took my breath away.

YOU KNOW HOW COLLARD GREEN SMELL UP THE HOUSE WHEN YOU ARE COOKING THEM...

Add the Florida.heat, and you can imagine how awful it is...

The smell of rotting awfulness. Sickening.

I've treated the carpet with enzymes, I have traveled all day with the windows down...

So far it's not helping.

Any suggestions?
  • misssonja
    Get a new car? Ha!
    OdorXit (online) makes a product that neutralizes even pet urine. Look at their website... It's not the spray, it's a tablet or packet.
    by misssonja at 05/20/13 7:22PM
  • 23_bravo_7
    My parents used to cut up a scented candle and put it under the seat. But I don't think Mom ever spilled collards. When I worked for Alstate they advised us that a cut up apple could absorb orders.

    Personally, I'd have the interior detailed.
    by 23_bravo_7 at 05/21/13 7:05AM
  • nchantment4u
    I have an air purifier that might help, but I'm in Illinois.
    by nchantment4u at 05/21/13 7:09AM

Everyone is talking...

No one is believing.

Welcome to politics 2013.

*sigh*
  • tryphena
    Sigh, indeed. So much of the news is heart-sickening.
    by tryphena at 05/18/13 10:08AM
  • 23_bravo_7
    Perhaps I speak for both of us, this in not the America I grew up in.
    by 23_bravo_7 at 05/18/13 3:22PM
  • tommyswife
    I try to remember that God is in control, but somedays it is very hard to remember that!
    by tommyswife at 05/18/13 10:08PM

My apples ...

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After lunch on Mother's Day.

I hope your day has been a good one.
  • tommyswife
    Everything about this picture is beautiful. :)
    by tommyswife at 05/12/13 3:52PM
  • justg
    ^^^ you are dear! I hope you are having a wonderful day!
    by justg at 05/12/13 3:57PM
  • tryphena
    They are all so sweet-looking and special!!
    by tryphena at 05/12/13 8:11PM
  • justpeachy
    I noticed how tall Zach is getting! I'm glad you were able to be with the grands.
    by justpeachy at 05/12/13 8:36PM
  • misssonja
    The girl to your right and the little boy in front have your smile!
    And your hair is really HAIR now! You look cute :)
    by misssonja at 05/12/13 9:28PM
  • misssonja
    OPI Cajun shrimp or something like that. Count on me to pick a polish named after FOOD. :P
    by misssonja at 05/14/13 2:58PM
  • canardmom23
    I love this photo, the girls are all in blue, so precious.
    by canardmom23 at 05/15/13 8:55AM

Happy Mother's Day!

I hope you had a 'good' one....

if you didn't,

Love her anyway, she probably did the best she could.

My precious children honor me each day by the way they live their lives...

and...

They love me anyway! :)

  • tryphena
    Mine did the best she could...now I can see that so much of my mother had to do with abandonment issues because of her father. Then, she married a man whose job took him away from home and incommunicado for days at a time (dad was an undercover narc--but he was a state trooper when she married him, which would have felt stable)...I can easily see why things were the way they were, now.
    by tryphena at 05/11/13 6:45AM
  • justg
    My mother was a beautiful woman.
    However,
    Like the girl with the curl,
    When she was good, she was very, very good..
    But,
    When she was bad, well...you know the rest of the story.
    I loved her. A lot.
    by justg at 05/11/13 6:51AM
  • tryphena
    I came back to add that I do love my mom. I am blessed to still have her!
    by tryphena at 05/11/13 7:09AM
  • misssonja
    I often think about my mom having me at just 18 yrs of age, with barely enough to survive on. Hard to criticize much when you consider the circumstances... And for being 18 to start, she did so many things exceptionally well.
    by misssonja at 05/11/13 8:26AM
  • tommyswife
    Love my mommy! So glad the God chose me for her. I see her in me and my children a lot. Her family situation was not the best but she had two things she knew she wanted to happen for her three girls, she prayed to God to live long enough to raise them and she wanted them to feel love. She can check both of those off now but we still need her more than ever even though we are technically "raised." Happy Mother's Day to you!
    by tommyswife at 05/11/13 8:59AM
  • mamahastings
    You have such a gift for stating things wisely and well, with very few words :) We all need to extend a little grace... especially to our moms :) I'm gonna need a lot of it!
    by mamahastings at 05/11/13 4:06PM

Curious...

I was watching the news yesterday, and when the verdict was handed down in the Arias's case, we were told that it would be announced at 4:30 p.m.

When the time came...a huge crowd was gathered outside the courthouse...predictably, the crowd cheered when it was announced that Arias was convicted of first degree murder.

Here's the question:
Why do people gather in situations like the Arias case. It also happened with OJ (at least he was celebrity). Guessing they just want to feel a part of 'what'?

Would you gather?

Please weigh in.

btw: as I am writing this...FOX news is wondering the same thing, I beat 'em to it! :)
  • tommyswife
    I do not know what the Arias's case or trial is so maybe my opinion doesn't matter, but I know the case of OJ or Scott Peterson etc. The sensationalism of trials is a long held tradition. People were filing into courtrooms for Lizzie Borden's murder trial over a hundred years ago and people showed up at the Hangin' :) of those convicted of some crime in the assasination of Abraham Lincoln. Do we all have some inate sense of wanting to see justice done. Probably. Sometimes, as in the trial of Scott Peterson for the murder of his wife Lacey and his unborn son Conner, I was really hoping for a closure for myself. That was going on while I was pregnant and postpartum with JT. I felt connected to the story, not in a morbid way but in a way that made me angry and confused. Angry that this girl didn't get to have the same joy I did when I held my son, mad that her mother was deprieved of her daughter, symphathic for everyone close to her that had to go on without her and confused about why people do horrible things to other people. I had to watch the trial. I wanted to see justice served and I wanted that closure...but even after the guilty verdict came in, I was still left with the same feeling. It did not solve anything. So I say all that to say that maybe some people really do want closure, and justice and even a bit of venegenace. But I willing to say too that they probably leave those gatherings not really any better. Typically in these situations there are no winners, just all of us losers because of sin.
    by tommyswife at 05/09/13 3:24PM
  • tryphena
    Very forward-thinking of you! I don't suppose I'd take the time to gather for a verdict, unless it involved me personally.

    Reminds me of public hangings--or OT stonings.
    by tryphena at 05/09/13 3:24PM
  • misssonja
    Um, they have lots of spare time to make idiots of themselves on the TV because they're not working, because they're collecting a government check. Meanwhile, I am not there, because I HAVE TO WORK to pay for their food stamps and WIC and subsidized housing and Obamaphones. And that's probably not all... (Or should I say "prolly" since that seems to be the New English?)
    Are you ranking your responses?
    by misssonja at 05/09/13 6:32PM
  • 23_bravo_7
    You would think she was the only person who ever murdered anyone. Personally, I am disgusted by all the attention for this one person when thousands of minority children are being murdered in our cities with useless remedies being offered. Shall I also include the millions of abortions?

    I didn't follow the trial and only knew about it from stumbling on to news reports.
    by 23_bravo_7 at 05/09/13 6:39PM
  • nchantment4u
    I am unfamiliar with the case, but I have never felt inclined to spend my days waiting for the outcome of a trial. That's not to say that I never will, just hasn't happened yet. I did see some of the OJ thing, but usually out of the corner of my eye. I can almost guarantee that I would not go stand on the courthouse steps.
    by nchantment4u at 05/10/13 7:37AM
  • justpeachy
    Nope, I wouldn't gather outside the courthouse. I wouldn't want any further mention of her name in the news/twitter/etc. I wouldn't buy her artwork. I think we give way too much attention to these people. Innocents get hurt when we turn a trial into a showpiece for the nation. I don't think we should flash pictures of mass murderers either. Let the crime be reported without the "glory" for the shooter/bomber
    by justpeachy at 05/10/13 8:00AM
  • iamyourfather
    People are weird
    by iamyourfather at 05/10/13 11:04AM
  • 23_bravo_7
    These kids are pretty good. Do they remind you of anyone?

    by 23_bravo_7 at 05/10/13 11:11AM