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| Posted by bixaorellana on Dec 31, 2009, 3:15pm |
 I awoke to a sound that generally makes me angry. It's the dry season here, so the 10,000 liter water trucks roam neighborhoods selling water. They use their horns to announce their presence. The horns are HUGE, so some of the drivers try to just tap them so they won't be so loud. However many of them lean on the damned things, making one think that a freight train is going through the living room. |
| Posted by bjd on Dec 31, 2009, 3:39pm |
| It is so quiet here!!! After Colombia where we were awakened every morning in the village by 1) roosters crowing before daybreak, which is about 5:30 and 2) loudspeakers playing vallenato (belive me, you don't want to listen to this for any length of time) by 7 am, and sometimes earlier and then continuing all day 3) parties and loudspeakers in many houses late into the night. |
| Posted by bixaorellana on Dec 31, 2009, 3:54pm |
| Hi Bjd! Are you back home? Sorry if you said so elsewhere & I missed it. I was visiting my mother & not online as much. Hope the vacation was wonderful, aside from the noise. |
| Posted by bjd on Dec 31, 2009, 5:15pm |
| HI Bixa, Yes I'm home. We got back last night and the vacation was really nice. Even the noise wasn't too bad all the time. |
| Posted by imec on Dec 31, 2009, 6:06pm |
| Snowmobiles - I guess the river is frozen hard now. |
| Posted by bixaorellana on Dec 31, 2009, 8:51pm |
It's great to see you back online, Bjd. I imagine you are very glad to be home. Going on vacation and returning in time for the new year seems such a pleasant idea. Too bad there are the hassles of Christmas travel at that time.
No esnowmobiles around here! |
| Posted by casimira on Dec 31, 2009, 11:12pm |
| Early firecrackers already! |
| Posted by casimira on Jan 1, 2010, 4:54am |
| Lots of firecrackers and fireworks.About to walk up to the levee and see/hear the show. |
| Posted by casimira on Jan 1, 2010, 11:07am |
| Firecrackers still. And the neighbors just coming home from a night out of reveling. Sounds as though they had a good time. |
| Posted by bjd on Jan 1, 2010, 12:22pm |
Dec 31, 2009, 8:51pm, bixaorellana wrote:| It's great to see you back online, Bjd. I imagine you are very glad to be home. Going on vacation and returning in time for the new year seems such a pleasant idea. Too bad there are the hassles of Christmas travel at that time. |
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The main reason for coming back before the end of the year was that ticket prices went way up starting on Jan 1! |
| Posted by bixaorellana on Jan 1, 2010, 4:33pm |
Tell me about it! I really hate traveling over a major holiday, but my son (at the last minute) had time off and wanted to go to my mother's. Since the airlines had already doubled their fares right before US Thanksgiving, I had to scramble to get even the hideously overpriced fare I paid. I didn't know they'd gone up again today.  My travel agent says prices will come down after the holidays, but how much? |
| Posted by spindrift on Jan 2, 2010, 10:22am |
I heard seagulls over my house today. This means that the wind must be blowing in a certain direction. I love seagulls.
anyone remember Jonathan Livingstone Seagull? that was back in the 1970s.... |
| Posted by casimira on Jan 2, 2010, 10:46am |
Jan 2, 2010, 10:22am, spindrift wrote:I heard seagulls over my house today. This means that the wind must be blowing in a certain direction. I love seagulls.
anyone remember Jonathan Livingstone Seagull? that was back in the 1970s.... |
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I do remember that book.
I hear the early morning crows starting to crank up over by the river and the faint sound of some boats on the river. |
| Posted by deyana on Jan 2, 2010, 2:55pm |
um.....someone washing the dishes downstairs. Yes, I'm spolit.  |
| Posted by rikita on Jan 5, 2010, 9:49pm |
| only music again... you can't really hear much here when the windows are closed. sometimes maybe a bump if something falls down in another apartment, or if someone goes into the attic i can hear it, but that doesn't happen often. |
| Posted by casimira on Jan 6, 2010, 1:50am |
Eerily quiet here,with all the windows shut and the white sound from the gas floor heater.
I am not accustomed to being hermetically sealed like this.  Soon though,Grazie ,the cat, will begin to snore and scare the bejesus out of me. I am ready.  |
| Posted by bixaorellana on Jan 6, 2010, 5:59am |
| It's very quiet here except that my cpu is an older model, so the fan is quite audible. Also, lately it's start making a not-loud but irritating noise, something like the sound of a belt slipping. |
| Posted by paristraveler on Jan 7, 2010, 4:47pm |
Just the sounds of Pandora radio currently featuring a group called "Bonds", my heater blowing ncessantly and the occasional "raaaaa" from my cat Brokie, requesting that I shine that infernal little red dot for her to chase and stalk.
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| Posted by kerouac2 on Jan 7, 2010, 5:42pm |
| Some motor has kicked in somewhere under the coach -- probably the heating and ventilation system. People are piling onto the Eurostar like rats escaping a sinking ship. |
| Posted by rikita on Jan 8, 2010, 1:43am |
| an interview of günter grass by some portuguese tv person, but in german. a portuguese friend linked me to it to tell him about the interviewer's level of german. |
| Posted by casimira on Jan 8, 2010, 11:53am |
| The wind howling outside,tree branches scraping against the side of the house,wind chimes gone manic. (I must take them down today!!). |
| Posted by spindrift on Jan 9, 2010, 2:53pm |
| The sound of ice being crunched when cars drive down the street - and the sound of the kettle boiling for tea. |
| Posted by rikita on Jan 9, 2010, 10:37pm |
| again just music and the gentle hum of my computer. |
| Posted by kimby on Jan 11, 2010, 2:53pm |
Dec 31, 2009, 6:06pm, imec wrote:| Snowmobiles - I guess the river is frozen hard now. |
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I hate that sound, but not nearly so much as Jet Skis ("personal watercraft"). At least in winter, the windows are closed. And daylight ends early enough to put a stop to the winter "crotch rockets" whereas in summer they can go till almost bedtime....
Fortunately none of either around here, though.
Just quiet. |
| Posted by rikita on Jan 12, 2010, 9:04pm |
| the sound of hte bf typing and sometimes sighing. not sure what he is sighing about. |
| Posted by casimira on Jan 17, 2010, 10:27am |
| The wind howling very loud and the remnants of the all day all day rain. |
| Posted by bixaorellana on Jan 17, 2010, 5:06pm |
| Just the birdies -- it's very quiet out. |
| Posted by rikita on Jan 17, 2010, 8:59pm |
| the hum of various computers. |
| Posted by casimira on Jan 18, 2010, 3:03am |
| Quiet here too,flocks of whistling ducks flying over every once in a while.All the windows open again...no mosquitoes...very nice. |
| Posted by spindrift on Jan 18, 2010, 11:52am |
| the odd car going down the street....footsteps on the pavement.... |
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