By Jim Hagarty
2017
I just got home after an hour’s drive from Huron County to Stratford. I had both front windows of the car rolled down as the air conditioner has decided to take a permanent holiday and it was pretty steamy inside the vehicle.
For most of the way, there was an odd smell wafting through the night air. I couldn’t identify it but it seemed familiar. Finally, I realized what it was. It was the smell of moth balls and I wondered if I was driving by some of the resplendent moth ball fields in our area.
I recognized the smell from a long time ago when, as a boy, I often visited my friend’s home where moth balls were liberally placed anywhere where there might be clothing. So, the smell tonight was just like that smell but I couldn’t be sure.
So I looked out the window all the way home and not seeing any moths in my travels, not even one, I knew then that the moth ball farmers in my area could look forward to bumper crops this summer.
