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sprinkler…

05 Saturday Oct 2024

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for the last few weeks I have been annoyed by a sound I could hear on the deck…

it sounded like wood rubbing against something…

I have walked all around, looking and listening with no success as I’ve tried to figure out what it was…

on Friday I asked my housemate if he could figure it out…

it took him all of two minutes to point out the solar floating sprinkler, which was sitting upside down on a corner of the deck, mainly in the shade…

apparently, a bit of it was catching the sun’s rays and causing it to attempt to run, which caused the sound…

it has now been moved into the garage and there is blissful silence on the deck;-)…

overhead…

31 Saturday Aug 2024

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as I’ve been sitting in the garden reading and enjoying the birds and bunnies around me, I’ve been hearing the Canada geese as they have begun to fly overhead…

I do love listening to their honking to one another as they head north or south, depending on the time of day…

of course, the sad part is that means fall is coming, sigh…

hummingbirds…

22 Saturday Jun 2024

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we’ve been watching the hummingbird feeder since we arrived and on Tuesday, when we were at the table eating our supper we spotted the first one… having their meal too;-)…

Wednesday, while we were eating lunch, two of them had a little confrontation over who got to eat first…

Friday, while I was on the lower deck reading in the sun, one came right up to me before flying off… once you’ve heard a hummingbird, you always recognize the sound of their wings fluttering, lol…

what a treat;-)…

pine…

01 Saturday Jun 2024

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I enjoy spending time in the garden watching the birds that come to the feeders, and the pond, for a drink and maybe a bath, lol…

sometimes I will see a new visitor but can’t quite identify them, but the Merlin sound app often gives me something to compare them with…

yesterday I’d seen a cute little bird, about the size of a chipping sparrow, but didn’t have time to look it up… today I was sitting in the garden with the sound app on and discovered it was a pine siskin…

technology is so cool;-)…

clicking…

07 Thursday Dec 2023

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sounds can make me a little crazy when I hear them and can’t figure out what they are…

once I know what they are then I am fine…

recently, whenever I closed the fridge door, this odd clicking sound happened…

I tried a few things but couldn’t figure it out… eventually I realized it was the feet on the little reindeer… as the door closed they moved and banged onto the Advent calendar the small reindeer was sitting on…

once I crossed them, the noise disappeared;-)…

copper…

05 Tuesday Sep 2023

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months ago I put the copper pipe chimes together, that my beloved had made, using masking tape…

finally, I brought up the drill and found an appropriate bit…

took off the ugly green tape, put the top plexiglass piece into the clamp, and drilled six holes…

then I attached the six pipes to the top and hung it back up…

way to go me;-)…

crickets…

04 Friday Aug 2023

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been wondering if the evening sounds I’ve been hearing are crickets or frogs…

pretty much came to the conclusion that they were crickets as I haven’t seen any signs of a frog around the pond…

and then…

Wednesday morning, look who popped up on the bridge;-)…

the sound might still be the crickets, but what a treat to spot this little leopard frog;-)…

and in the last few days it has been all over;-)…

chats…

10 Saturday Jun 2023

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I woke up rather early and was laying in bed trying to decide whether to get up or try to go back to sleep…

as I lay there I heard my sixteen-month-old neighbour chatting with one (or both) of his parents… there weren’t distinct words, just the sound of his voice;-)…

I don’t usually hear anything from him so the windows and wind must have been in just the right configuration…

made me think of when the girls were that little and the early morning happy chats;-)…

most…

16 Tuesday May 2023

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Sunday, spent the entire day in the garden… it was warm and sunny…

set out all the chair cushions and even brought out the decorative ones…

then, most of the fish came outside… a few just wouldn’t be caught, lol… apparently a project for another day…

tea, reading, and bird watching took up a good part of the day… I am loving the sound portion of my Merlin App… it has come in especially helpful for me to identify the many sparrows that come and go…

White-Crowned, White-Throated, Harris’s, Song, and Chipping Sparrows have all been around for the last week or so…

checked out the fence with the little person and his daddy on one side, as I contemplate the style of the new fence that is in the works, and had tea and snacks with the ones on the other side… they enjoy sitting by the pond and the sound of the running water…

ate all my meals on the deck, breakfast and lunch on the back, and supper on the upper…

phone calls, emails, in-person visits, and text messages came throughout the day…

truly, I am blessed;-)…

sound…

12 Wednesday Oct 2022

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the other day, my Merlin sound app found many different birds inside an hour and a half… even though I didn’t see them all…

what a treat to have confirmation of some of the little birds flitting about the garden…

we are clearly in the middle of migration season…