@dkdkrd posted:Geez, Don! There ya go again! You have this uncanny way of awakening memories...for which I'm deeply gratified.
Helps to keep the drawbridge down across the moat of dementia and oldphartitis!
To which I'd add my 'two scents' worth:
1) Opening an old construction kit from yore and being wafted with the bouquet of old basswood!
2) Opening an old hobby magazine stored in some dark forgotten area of attic or basement and having the olfactory sensors awaken to...what?...cellulosic mold?...decayed ink?...embedded exhalation of a wide-eyed youth?
And, yes...lichen's aroma is a scent-to-remember in this hobby.
Wired for weird, ...and lovin' it!...I remain (Lord willing)...
KD
Thanks KD. I do not have the old basswood kits but your magazine memory is spot on. I have an old box under my layout with magazines I kept that had articles by John Armstrong and John Allan. On a lazy day when I do not have a lot to do or feel like running trains, I will sit under the layout and thumb thru the magazines and old Lionel catalogs. Yes…there is a unique smell and I am a teenager again.
Thanks for that memory too.
DK
