{"id":8730,"date":"2016-04-26T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/?p=8730"},"modified":"2016-05-07T12:26:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T19:26:34","slug":"listifylife-spring-challenge-scents-that-conjure-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/listifylife-spring-challenge-scents-that-conjure-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"#ListifyLife Spring Challenge &#8211; Scents That Conjure Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for the blurriness in this week&#8217;s image:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Listify_Scents.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8731\" src=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Listify_Scents-300x281.jpg\" alt=\"Listify_Scents\" width=\"300\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Listify_Scents-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Listify_Scents-150x141.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Listify_Scents-768x721.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Listify_Scents-1024x961.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Listify_Scents.jpg 1198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s theme is <strong>Scents that Conjure up Memories<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Fresh Pastry &#8211;&gt; Paris<\/em>. My then-boyfriend\/now-husband and I backpacked through Europe during our university years. Okay, this was a long time ago, and I had never tasted croissants before! For years after visiting Paris, and even sometimes now (despite the proliferation of croissants in my part of Canada since), if I pass a bakery and catch the whiff of freshly baked pastries, I am transported back to memories of the left bank, Notre Dame Cathedral, the Eiffel Tower, and the Sewers of Paris (which was a very interesting tour, although no croissants were consumed during the informative boat trip).<\/li>\n<li><em>Chainsaw Oil or Sawdust &#8211;&gt; My Husband&#8217;s Early Forestry Days.<\/em>\u00a0My husband is now in the business end of the forest industry, but he began as a silviculture field forester plus he logged with my dad for a brief spell. Now, whenever he gets firewood or &#8220;prunes&#8221; (his term for huge tree haircuts) in our backyard and then comes in the house, when I hug him I breathe deeply of his work shirt. I admit it, I find the scent of chainsaw oil and\/or sawdust romantic! (By the by, the hero in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cindyprocter-king.com\/Books\/where_she_belongs.html\" target=\"_blank\">WHERE SHE BELONGS<\/a>, Adam Wright, is a forester&#8211;shameless plug).<\/li>\n<li><em>Mothballs &#8211;&gt; Visiting Other Granny<\/em>. My &#8220;Other Granny&#8221; was my mom&#8217;s mom, my maternal grandmother. She always lived in very small houses, and the closets smelled like mothballs. She has been gone a very long time, but I will forever associate the scent with her. And you know what? She&#8217;s not the sort who would mind it. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li><em>Scent of Fireplace Burning (well, firewood IN fireplace) &#8211;&gt; Watching Movies on TV with my DH and Our Kids.\u00a0<\/em>I love the scent of firewood burning in an open fireplace! We are lucky enough to have a wonderful chimney in the middle of our house, in the family room, which is in the basement. My family loves movies, and we watched a lot of movies with our kids with a hearty fire crackling on the hearth. When your fireplace is in the middle of the house, as opposed to an exterior wall, a fire in the fireplace heats the whole place, giving it a super cozy feeling. The scent is &#8220;home&#8221; to me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do you have any scents that conjure up good memories?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for the blurriness in this week&#8217;s image: This week&#8217;s theme is Scents that Conjure up Memories&#8230; Fresh Pastry &#8211;&gt; Paris. My then-boyfriend\/now-husband and I backpacked through Europe during our university years. Okay, this was a long time ago, and I had never tasted croissants before! For years after visiting Paris, and even sometimes now&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/listifylife-spring-challenge-scents-that-conjure-memories\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#ListifyLife Spring Challenge &#8211; Scents That Conjure Memories<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,58,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-for-fun","category-listifylife","category-stuff-about-me","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8730"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8735,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8730\/revisions\/8735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}