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Across the Fence:  What sound do you find most amazing?  |
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melanie47601
True Blue Farmgirl
1949 Posts
Melanie
Boonville
IN
USA
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 Posted - Jul 04 2009 : 10:05:02 PM
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I heard two of my favorite sounds today. These are really special because one I very seldom ever hear and the other well today was my first time to ever hear it for real.
Complete and total quiet. It has been so long.
And the one that really took the cake-- a group of horses running together. What an amazing sound!
Melanie
Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says "Oh Crap, She's up!"
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Jul 04 2009 : 10:30:05 PM
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I love the sounds a mother animal (goats sheep and cows all do it) make to their baby...little grumbly noises that the baby understands. Nothing like it.
Quiet is a great one too.
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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prariehawk
True Blue Farmgirl
2914 Posts
Cindy
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Posted - Jul 04 2009 : 10:47:58 PM
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Since I found a stray kitten, I've been hearing the sound of purring. Like a little motor that never stops running.
Cindy
"Dog is my co-pilot"
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Bellepepper
True Blue Farmgirl
1207 Posts
Belle
Coffeyville
KS
USA
1207 Posts |
Posted - Jul 05 2009 : 06:27:00 AM
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| The ping of canning jars, just out of the canner. The flapping of the flag on top the flag pole, the ripple of the waterfall in the water garden. The cackle of a hen just off the nest. All this with a background of silence. |
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Faransgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
895 Posts
Beth
Houston
Texas
USA
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Posted - Jul 05 2009 : 06:39:05 AM
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I have to go with the pounding of hooves. A group of horses running together just for the joy of running. And my three daughters when the say "I love you".
Farmgirl Sister 572
May the force of the horse be with you. |
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Jul 05 2009 : 06:50:22 AM
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Right this minute it's the sound of rain drops hitting the very thirsty ground and on the roof!!!
And the clucking sound a momma hen makes to her babies and they all come running back to her.
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
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Room To Grow
True Blue Farmgirl
974 Posts
Deborah
Kingston
Georgia
USA
974 Posts |
Posted - Jul 05 2009 : 07:49:03 AM
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Kristin< We just got rain this morning...still raining...But the sound of silence when I am working in the garden and then a buzzing around my ...but of course my granddaughters calling my name...Gay...I was suppose to be Gammy...but you always go with what they want to call you...
Deborah
we have moved to our farm...and love it |
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Jul 05 2009 : 09:18:45 AM
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Deborah, I'm glad you got rain, too. And that is cute what your GD calls you. When my 1st GD was starting to talk we tried to get her to say Pappy for her great Gpa but she only said happy. So he's Happy now to all of them but really, he's anything but happy most of the time. Oh well.
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
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melody
True Blue Farmgirl
3318 Posts
Melody
The Great North Woods in the Land of Hiawatha
USA
3318 Posts |
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1badmamawolf
True Blue Farmgirl
2199 Posts
Teresa
"Bent Fence Farms"
Ca
USA
2199 Posts |
Posted - Jul 05 2009 : 1:18:33 PM
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The sound of rain on a tin roof, the gentle low of a cow calling her calf, my grandsons running up to me and saying look grandma, "big bug", LOL the sound of the breezes blowing thru the leaves on the trees.
"Treat the earth well, it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children" |
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Betty J.
True Blue Farmgirl
1403 Posts
Betty
Pasco
WA
USA
1403 Posts |
Posted - Jul 05 2009 : 1:51:15 PM
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I love the sound of a classical tune that I have long forgotten. Makes me want to stand up and sing--but really you don't want me to!
Betty in Pasco |
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
6066 Posts |
Posted - Jul 05 2009 : 2:37:35 PM
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Good question, and I agree the best sound is that of quiet, the kind you only have when there is a lot of open space around you and no one nearby.
I have been hearing a Mississippi Kite calling the last few days. That is a beautiful sound.
Farmgirl Sister # 31
www.blueskyjeannie.blogspot.com
Psalm 51: 10-13 |
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
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Posted - Jul 05 2009 : 3:39:21 PM
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The sound of a purring cat just makes me smile and happy!
I absolutely love the sound of a piano. And- a cello makes me glow. Sounds are beautiful.
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
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melody
True Blue Farmgirl
3318 Posts
Melody
The Great North Woods in the Land of Hiawatha
USA
3318 Posts |
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ranchmama
True Blue Farmgirl
360 Posts
Elise
Rosebud
MT
USA
360 Posts |
Posted - Jul 05 2009 : 4:36:26 PM
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I like to hear the first meadowlark in the spring
cows mooing waayy out in pasture
my son's belly laugh
my husband's boot steps with spurs (I can tell it's him by his jingle!)
I heard the wind come up the creek once before I felt it, that was pretty cool
my daughter signing
my youngest saying I Love You
Every Child Deserves Our Love &
A Bear of Their Own
http://ATeddyForKeeps.org
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shepherdgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1008 Posts
Tracy
California
USA
1008 Posts |
Posted - Jul 05 2009 : 11:40:37 PM
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Hmmm... so many good replies. It's really hard to narrow it down.
Yesterday, before it got dark, my husband and I, and our three teenage sons walked through the pasture to pick blackberries. The sounds were just amazing. I heard the crickets chirping, the flies buzzing, the lambs calling to their mama's and the mama's calling back. We had a ewe in labor (that we had to help give birth to twins when we got back!), and I could hear her calling to the babies not yet born. I also heard the cows and the goats putting THEIR two cents in... Honestly, I don't LIKE silence. I like SOUND! In fact, I LOVE sound! Especially the sounds of nature..... sigh.....
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. ~~ George Carlin |
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QueenofQuiteAlot
True Blue Farmgirl
865 Posts
Dalyn
Milk 'n Honey Ranch
Central, WA
USA
865 Posts |
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FebruaryViolet
True Blue Farmgirl
4810 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4810 Posts |
Posted - Jul 06 2009 : 07:14:42 AM
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Because I am a new mother, the sounds that I find most amazing right now come from Violet...she has this beautiful little sigh that she makes after a sneeze...and her belly laugh? Nothing can make my day better.
I also love to hear my dogs sleeping, softly snoring on the floor after a long walk in the woods.
The birds in the morning. Rain on our metal awnings. The stream, raging behind our house after a rainstorm. Train whistles.
Musings from our family in the Bluegrass http://sweetvioletmae.blogspot.com/ |
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sherone_13
True Blue Farmgirl
2460 Posts
Sherone
Evanston
WY
USA
2460 Posts |
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Annab
True Blue Farmgirl
2900 Posts
Anna
Seagrove
NC
USA
2900 Posts |
Posted - Jul 06 2009 : 09:42:33 AM
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It's kind of sad to hear, but the sound an antelope makes when it's separated from the herd and is calling to them is really neet-o
Some make clicking sound so soft you can miss it , others make an abreviated call similar to what a baby goat sounds like. Not quite a moo, not quite a baa
Cat purrs
And content elephant purrs that are so bizarre I can't even explain |
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melanie47601
True Blue Farmgirl
1949 Posts
Melanie
Boonville
IN
USA
1949 Posts |
Posted - Jul 06 2009 : 2:25:07 PM
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I just love these ansers. Some of the things you all have mentioned I probably wouldn't have thought of before. Isn't it funny how we can sometimes take things for granted.
I heard some somewhat surprising noises last night around my house. Kinda surprising cause we live in town. Maybe they have always been here and I just never really paid attention before.
Crickets chirping- shouldn't be surprised because my youngest catches them all the time. She caught 11 of them last summer and kept them in her bug cage for a few nights in the house until her older sister and brother either convinced or threatened her into getting rid of them. Guess they didn't much like sleeping with chirping crickets. LOL
And a bullfrog. This one just really has me puzzled. But he was a really nice addition to the crickets.
Some of my other favorites:
My Hallie's laugh- it's super contagious
The strum of a guitar
Max the bunny doing his lil bunny growl at Ruby
Soft breeze through the trees
Melanie
Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says "Oh Crap, She's up!"
Blog~ http://wheelsarealwaysturning.blogspot.com/
Swap Blog~ http://mels-swapshop.blogspot.com/ |
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Diane B Carter
True Blue Farmgirl
1270 Posts
Diane
Blasdell
N.Y.
USA
1270 Posts |
Posted - Jul 06 2009 : 4:34:28 PM
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I love the sound of my 2yo GS laughing when I go to put him down and I hold him close to me and tell him he's stuck, then I bounce trying to get him off and he just laughs and laughs. He does the same thing when my finger gets stuck in his arm pit. He's so much fun.
Hope all your days are Sunnydays.
dianebcarterhotmailcom.blogspot.com |
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
6066 Posts |
Posted - Jul 06 2009 : 4:37:00 PM
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A Missippii Kite is a bird the size of a large hawk, and it has a quite impressive wing span. It makes a sound I cannot describe....almost like a sailor whistling at a pretty girl. But a lovely sound. They nest high in tall pines.
Farmgirl Sister # 31
www.blueskyjeannie.blogspot.com
Psalm 51: 10-13 |
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Hosanna
True Blue Farmgirl
466 Posts
Hosanna
Alton
Virginia
466 Posts |
Posted - Jul 06 2009 : 5:11:55 PM
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| Oh,my gosh - what a great thing to think about! I love what everyone listed, dittos! I love the sound of running hooves and rain on my roof too; and birds and crickets in the evening also. But the other night, I happened to be in the woods, and heard a great horned owl...... It hardly made a noise as it flew, but then it hooted.....................wow. |
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kmbrown
True Blue Farmgirl
459 Posts
Misty
Waynesboro
Pennsylvania
USA
459 Posts |
Posted - Jul 06 2009 : 5:23:53 PM
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My favorite sound is that very first cry of a newborn. I am expecting my 4rth and I think every single day about that sound. I trained to be a midwife and believe me....it NEVER gets old to hear that little cry!
I also love the sound of the creek that flows around our part of the farm.
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countrykatgirly
True Blue Farmgirl
186 Posts
Hallie
Jordan
NY
USA
186 Posts |
Posted - Jul 07 2009 : 04:51:07 AM
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The sound of a train at night. I have always thought it a bit romantic. Now, in my new home, I am lucky to hear it a few times a day.
Crickets at twilight always make me smile.
Aretha Franklin, (at 14) singing "Precious Lord", never fails to give me goosebumps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgTnA9FseWw
**Farmgirl Sister #622**
“It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
--Laura Ingalls Wilder
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