I'm in an office with no windows and only the one door. It opens onto the West side of the Showroom, away from the entrance. Sometimes when it rains I can hear the drops hitting the roof above me, but unless a particularly loud Harley rolls by, or a Helicopter, I don't hear much from outside.

I DO get a good sense of the flow of business from the noise in the showroom, however. It seems like a daily occurrence that someone will set off an alarm in one of the cars. That lasts 60 seconds or until someone can get the key out of the key safe and turn it off. Today is Saturday, and right about now, it's pretty quiet out there. This is because the pizza just arrived, and all of the salesmen have stepped away from their customers 'for just a moment while they check on something.'

From 1:30 until about 7PM, there will be a buzz of voices like being in a crowded Mall or at a party. It's interesting how that buzz will generate deals. People become swept up in the activity, seeing other people negotiating animatedly, and hands being shook, the Gong being struck, hearing the sales managers thanking people for their business, and handing them the keys..... It is a fact that business breeds business.

We need to sell 20 cars today to hit the bonus, and with the gorgeous weather, the recently upgraded incentives, and 32 appointments plus walk in business, I am hopeful that we'll hit it. Last week's number was 17 and we just made it.


so... I hear money outside my door.

Our bull Mr B who sounds like a dinosaur on the Jurasic park movie. Must have a cow coming in heat. His calls in the dark make the hair stand up on the back of your neck.

fucking chicadees have woken back up again. Minus one. Demeter heeded the call to arms :D

Aside from the chicadees, I hear a lawn mower and Hector's RC heli.

Drizzle.

We've had enough rain to last a lifetime this week. Today is sunny and dry and 24 degrees Cand we are about to bike to Thor's soccer game :D hurrah for Michigan Spring, even if it does only last two days. It's needs to get even hotter, though -pools open next weekend!

Autumn barks occasionally at a wandering squirrel...
Winter paints a tracery, bare and chaste...
Spring knows she's muddy, but fecund and virile...
Summer dries out the bonfire to burn the waste...

Chickadee, blue jay, someone's screaming sprog in the distance.

I hear the cardinal in the garden

Birds chirping, engine noises, sirens.

It's eerily quiet outside. Almost total silence.

Another mower, more birds, more cars, no raptures... or raptors....

Nonsense. You're just deaf from the previous night's party.

Around here we have noise laws. Things have to settle down by 10pm weeknights and midnight on the weekends.

It is absolutely pissing down.

Pissing rain here too.

I hear the kids upstairs jumping around, it drives me freaking nuts!! I hate jumping inside.