There's a school across the street from my house and right now kids are laughing on the playground. Cheering and chatter and play are generally nice sounds. Good music to write to.
Until recently, when whoever runs recess decided to add a hideous soundtrack of bad 80's songs to playtime. Little kids monkey on monkey bars to "Walk Like an Egyptian," Thriller" and "Come on Eileen." They play tag to the beat of C & C Music Factory's "Everybody Dance Now" and Madonna's "Get Into the Groove."
I shut the windows and insert earplugs.
Commiserate with me. Or brag if you want to. What sounds do you hear around your home?
xoxo,
Suzanne
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We have some dogs across from us that are howlers - but luckily only for a few minutes every morning when the owners leave.
ReplyDeleteI think it's sort of funny, really.
Bad 80s tunes would drive me crazy, too.
A clunking dryer and birds for me. I'll pray for you that they don't start playing the safety dance or anything by Wang Chung.
ReplyDeleteWe have the French school a block away so we hear school sounds as well, but not too intrusive. We hear some birds, dogs barking, cars and may soon have the haunting sound of a daily call to prayer as a mosque is being built nearby to cater to the Muslim members of our community. And my cat miaaouws a lot.
ReplyDeleteOn a sadder note, as the area has become more built up we have lost the keening sound of the kiewietjies (plovers)and no longer hear the rare and beautiful call of the shy "rain bird" (Burchell's coucal).
We just moved to a country-ish setting from downtown so that we could get away from noises of city buses, busy traffic, construction, and drunken party-goers.
ReplyDeleteNow we hear all kinds of birds including redwinged blackbirds, robins, goldfinches, Canada geese, mingled with wind, lawnmowers, children's laughter, and the distant hum of cars on the country road. *sigh*
Bizarre! I've never heard of 80s music at recess time!
ReplyDeleteRight now I'm listening to the wind in the trees. If it gets into the right rhythm, I can pretend I'm at the beach listening to small waves rush onto the shore.
THE BIRDS have started chirping outside our window. They're pretty and cute and sweet. But at 4:30 in the MORNING? I want to shoot them! URGH! *sorry, I'm going on less sleep here...*
ReplyDeleteThe sound of birds and vehicles. A lot of birds have been nesting on our trees and roof. I am living near a busy main road, so a lot of vehicles too. I hate the potholes on this road which are giving me a hard time to escort my daughter, but I guess it spares us from too busy noises ;).
ReplyDeleteOooh, I used to have a tree right outside my bedroom window that was an early morning favorite for every single m@#$%^ f*&#%$ black bird in Hollywood. Seriously, there were at least 100 birds in that thing in the very wee hours of the morning. I thought I woudl go mad.
ReplyDeleteNow I live on a country road and hear lots of birds, the occasional dog barking and cicadids (sp?). And, the storms we get here in the South are amazing! My favorite sound however, is my daughter's chatter.
I've been waking up to the sound of "Tom" turkeys calling to the ladies feeding under my neighbor's bird feeder.
ReplyDeleteI love 80s tunes! :)
ReplyDeleteI have a noisy home. There are dogs barking, washers and dryers running, kids laughing or arguing, music or TV or Wii playing...
I agree to you Beck, the chatter of the children is also very amusing to me. Although today my son decided to borrow his sister's girl scout whistle and has been blowing it all day. I will find a way to hide it ;).
ReplyDeleteWe mostly hear birds but there is someone off in the distance that is raising dogs and they are starting to get on my nerves with all that barking.
ReplyDeleteWe hear lots of birds around - sometimes so loud in the morning that we have to shut the back windows. Frogs singing at night. Our street is tiny, so I don't hear many cars directly passing our house, however we're closer to the main road than I'd like so sometimes the driving car noise beats out the birds.
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