What do you hear outside RFN?
 

I live in a neighborhood densely populated with bars and restaurants, so it gets really crazy around here on the weekends. RFN however, it's surprisingly quiet.

I hear...

A dog barking, sounds like the German Shepherd from down the street
A lone drunk female yelling incoherently
Bass from a nearby nightclub, not too loud yet
Water heater exhaust from the restaurant downstairs

Faint sounds of traffic from the highway 1/2 a mile away, really low-keyed crickets, and the low hum of the street light....(or maybe that's the crickets, hard to tell).

I hear nothing because we closed all the windows because we smelled SKUNK!

.::Wonders what the rapture will sound like::

I can hear a couple of slow moving cars, some dripping on some green waste I haven't cleaned up yet. Some teenagers chatting as they walk past, a crow (oh no!), and some other random bird sounds. I can also hear boat motors faintly in the background.

30% traffic noise, 70% birds in the park across the street.

The occasional plane flying over. But mostly a freight train going by. The sound of a train at night always sounds mournful to me.

Until about 2 minutes ago, I could hear a call to prayer (which thankfully these days doesn't wake me up at 4 a.m. anymore). Now it's car noises and the sound of 2 pieces of metal clinking against each other periodically.

I miss that sound. Ever notice how it sounds differently in the winter?

Do you live in an area where it snows?

Yes.

Nighttime winter sounds are generally mournful...just because its winter...:eyebrow:

Drizzle.

I accessed this thread last night from my phone but couldn't be arsed fiddling about withthe on screen keyboard to respond, so am posting now, about last night:

Picture the scene: 4:15 AM and the party in the house/garden opposite my little street is still in full swing. It's been going since late aft/early evening. Even with doubleglazed windows and the TV on full blast, the noise o fthe party has been pretty much drowning out the tv all evening. It's even worse in the bedroom.

They're clearly having a rollicking good time, and judging from the balloons and the small red marquee, this isn't their usual late night get together, but a much bigger party and probably because of some special occasion. Conseqently I am loath to go round and ask them to turn it down a bit.

By now, (4:15am) they'd been engaged for a couple of hours in guitar led singsongs in the back garden, with ten or twenty people belting out Oasis songs at the tops of their voices, occasionally punctuated by screeches of laughter. Everyone appears to communicate at the tops of their voices and I don't know if it's my imagination, but I think one of the guitars is plugged into an amp.

Usually these late night gatherings fizzle out or move indoors by around 2am. This time it went on til gone 5.

I considered going outside and shouting over the fence to keep it down a bit, but they were clearly having such a good time, I didn't really want to be the downer to that. So I listened to my ipod in bed. I could still hear them, quite loudly over the audioplay, even though I had it on quite loud. By the time I finished that it was around 3:30 and I was too tired to get up, get dressed, and go out.

Somewhere around 4:30 the sound levels dropped a little. Still could hearthe music quite clearly but I think some of them at least had moved indoors.

Not great, but much better, so I tried to sleep. Which I did, for about half an hour before being woken by the sounds of raucous laughter and shouting, and what sounded a little like football terrace chants as the guests were leaving.

So then I couldn't sleep. Probably lay awake for another hour. Knackered, but not sleepy.

So. That's what i was going to post in here this morning, if I hadn't been too tired to work the phone properly.

A few random birds, and a squirell scampering across the roof.

Right now, just the gentle susurrus of a breeze through trees.

Strange voices, shouting "Ohh Lord" and "Hallelujah". They're getting fainter.

over the whir of the other computer that's still on for some reason, I can hear birds chirping and the occasional car going by. Earlier this morning (about 5:30) all i could hear was a posse of birds with a piercing 2 tone call who wouldn't STFU and caused me to be awake at stupid-o-clock for no good reason on a Saturday. grrrrr. Now they've stopped -probably sleeping, little gits. Yes, it's 8:30 and i've already been doing paper/computer work for over an hour. no I can't get stupid quickbooks to reconcile. No, I can't find the problem. Maybe this cup of tea will help

Lil' Griff just got a new snare... I can't hear anything but.

There's no noise outside. It's dead quiet just like most nights here.

About the birds. We have ones here called curlew's that make a two tone call. Kind of like the sound of a wolf whistle, but sadder and slower. Or I suppose awestruck at the awesome beauty of the subject. Like slow and...well...awestruck.

A curlew would be bliss compared to this little bugger. I'mm'a set the cats onto it and all it's kin until we have extinction.

Now I can hear Thor making sound effects for whatever scenario he's creating with lego. mostly war noises. :love:

Just before, I thought I could hear zombies, but it was just drunk teenagers.

Awww bless. That's so cute.

Right now I can hear the jingle jangle tune of an icecream van somewhere in the village.

drunk teenagers are cute? lol I don't think so. They usually vomit indiscriminately. (I'll have you know that indiscriminately is a really big word for a drunk person to spell)

I can hear the Elmhurst Road - there's always traffic on it, day and night, because it's part of the ring road (A41) as well as being the main road through the estate.

Also the birds - mostly starlings.
A neighbour was banging about in a gardening way, but that's stopped now.

90% traffic, 10% birds

I think she meant Thor. Who is being cute.

I don't hear anything! Autumn barks occasionally at a wandering squirrel...but that's about it. Very, very quiet morning. Everyone must be nursing a hangover.

Indeed I did :)

That sounds poetic.

Autumn barks occasionally at a wandering squirrel...
Winter covers itself in a blanket of snow...
Spring opens it's shell, revealing a pearl....
Summer nurtures grass, which I must mow...

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.

We have noise laws too, but you have to call the police to get them enforced. Living in a small place, I doubt Dana wants to get all formal on her neighbours like that.

Also she's a party chick and doesn't like the idea of harshing someone else's groove for an isolated incident. She'd be round there with bells on if it was every night.

*chuckles*

Correct on all counts Sundae :p Though less a party chick than in my yout. I consider that I have calmed down enormously :)

The parties are only silly a few times a year. Mostly when they have their gatherings the noise has calmed down by the time I am looking to sleep. I think it's probably six months since theylast had a really late bash. This one was the worst though, and I suspect that they were celebrating some event. There were certainly a lot of balloons about and they don't usually pitch a marquee.


[eta] I'm down at Ma's house with both dogs, whilst she's visiting Auntie Jaqs. Easier to deal with them both here, and gives Pilau a chance to sit out in the garden. Every so often I hear a car on the cobbles outside. We've just had torrential downpours and a short hailstorm. Suddenly now the sky is bright blue and the birds are back out and singing.

I can also hear the very faint sounds from the park down the valley. Some kind of kids' radio thing going on down there.



(eata) This is the park btw: http://www.calderdale-online.org/art...andabout2.html

and this pic shows the hill to the left which is where mum's house is: http://images.travelpod.com/users/bt...ibden-park.jpg

And surprise, surprise, it's another call to prayer.

The view down the hill over the park looks lovely.

as for noises outside here, surprise, surprise, it's another call to prayer.

I can't hear anything.
My Dad is doing something wondrous and never-ending with paper.
I can only assume it's to do with getting the toilet floor recarpeted, or putting down lino or tiles or whatever the current plan is.

He was measuring and making paper shapes last weekend, and I got tuts and moans for wanting to get my tea ready, because the paper template was on the kitchen floor.

However yesterday and today there has been more measuring and I assume more templates - I can't be arsed to go and look. I can only assue that right now he is rolling a template up, as there is a HUGE rattling and rustling sound that has been going on for quite a while. I cannot hear the radio over it.

Either that or he has created an enormous paper bag and is having fun rolling around in it while Mum is out.

That is over since I started typing this post, but there is still a constant snicker of measuring tape being reholstered. It's driving me crazy. Might have to go and put my earplugs in.

Dead silence outside. Not a sound.

Shhhhh! The sound of the sun shining!

I went downstairs and said to Da, "Sounds like you're having fun down here!"
To which he replied, angrily, "NO I'M BLOODY NOT!" which is really quite cross for Dad.

I had to run upstairs again as I was worried I would snigger at just how cheeky I had been.
It's still making me smile now...

Sundae you always make me smile :)

Thunderstorm, sheets of water coming down - the 2nd time today.

Next door's dog barking, just heard a car drive by but apart from that it's a very quite Sunday night.

nothing but the buzz of tinnitus in my ears. :(

air conditioner. hoping for the thunder before i crash out....

Annoying buzzing air conditioners from the restaurant, but otherwise not a sound.

I'm guessing our Phillies lost to the Rangers...so everyone went home depressed, instead of out to the bars to whoop it up.

Small rain and cars sloshing through puddles.