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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 31, 2009 15:15:56 GMT
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.
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Post by bjd on Dec 31, 2009 15:39:33 GMT
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.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 31, 2009 15:54:05 GMT
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.
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Post by bjd on Dec 31, 2009 17:15:49 GMT
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.
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Post by imec on Dec 31, 2009 18:06:54 GMT
Snowmobiles - I guess the river is frozen hard now.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 31, 2009 20:51:07 GMT
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!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2009 23:12:10 GMT
Early firecrackers already!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2010 4:54:47 GMT
Lots of firecrackers and fireworks.About to walk up to the levee and see/hear the show.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2010 11:07:11 GMT
Firecrackers still. And the neighbors just coming home from a night out of reveling. Sounds as though they had a good time.
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Post by bjd on Jan 1, 2010 12:22:02 GMT
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. The main reason for coming back before the end of the year was that ticket prices went way up starting on Jan 1!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 1, 2010 16:33:53 GMT
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?
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Post by spindrift on Jan 2, 2010 10:22:59 GMT
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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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2010 10:46:40 GMT
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.... 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.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2010 14:55:33 GMT
um.....someone washing the dishes downstairs. Yes, I'm spolit.
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Post by rikita on Jan 5, 2010 21:49:29 GMT
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.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2010 1:50:29 GMT
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.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 6, 2010 5:59:35 GMT
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.
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Post by paristraveler on Jan 7, 2010 16:47:37 GMT
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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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2010 17:42:37 GMT
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.
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Post by rikita on Jan 8, 2010 1:43:59 GMT
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.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2010 11:53:25 GMT
The wind howling outside,tree branches scraping against the side of the house,wind chimes gone manic. (I must take them down today!!).
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Post by spindrift on Jan 9, 2010 14:53:20 GMT
The sound of ice being crunched when cars drive down the street - and the sound of the kettle boiling for tea.
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Post by rikita on Jan 9, 2010 22:37:06 GMT
again just music and the gentle hum of my computer.
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Post by Kimby on Jan 11, 2010 14:53:35 GMT
Snowmobiles - I guess the river is frozen hard now. 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.
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Post by rikita on Jan 12, 2010 21:04:04 GMT
the sound of hte bf typing and sometimes sighing. not sure what he is sighing about.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2010 10:27:55 GMT
The wind howling very loud and the remnants of the all day all day rain.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 17, 2010 17:06:08 GMT
Just the birdies -- it's very quiet out.
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Post by rikita on Jan 17, 2010 20:59:33 GMT
the hum of various computers.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2010 3:03:15 GMT
Quiet here too,flocks of whistling ducks flying over every once in a while.All the windows open again...no mosquitoes...very nice.
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Post by spindrift on Jan 18, 2010 11:52:51 GMT
the odd car going down the street....footsteps on the pavement....
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