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flemmings ([personal profile] flemmings) wrote2017-10-15 08:20 pm

Necromancy

Open bags of ground coffee in the study and bathroom, essential oil peppermint on a paper towel over the vent in the kitchen. Thus do I exorcise Ratso, for today: since windows must be closed in this newly-arrived cold front.

Oddly, though neither furnace nor furnace fan was on, the peppermint smell spread through all the downstairs vents. These were all google solutions, BTW. Have no desire to try the 'cut up onions in a plastic container of water' one. I can smell a fragment of onion caught in the kitchen sink strainer, in my bedroom on the second floor at the other end of the house. Even the faint ghost of Ratso that comes through the plastic covered study vents is preferable to that.

[identity profile] i-am-zan.livejournal.com 2017-10-16 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
Ewww! Onions in a bag? @_@ the mind does boggle.

Coffee and a peppermint aroma wafting through, will probably make me want to dive into a decent enough cafe that will serve me such a delightful concoction! ^_^

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2017-10-16 01:23 pm (UTC)(link)
*Cut* onions. In water.

It's certainly an enticing smell, and very like a Starbucks.

[identity profile] heliopausa.livejournal.com 2017-10-16 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"... weave a circle round him thrice..."

It sounds like something from an old herbal - To speede a ling'ring Gueste.

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2017-10-16 01:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Wish herbs would do it. Coffee *costs*.