Deadly quiet on this Saturday July 4th
Not a sound. It's a warm and sunny day but with a pleasant breeze so there is not even the sound of air conditioners (not too many folks have central air around here and the window a/c units are old and noisy). I did hear some fire works this morning tho why any one is setting such off during day light hours is beyond me. (Yes, fire crackers sound different than fire works). I expect tonight there will be more fire works at the official celebration but that won't last long.
I can smell lighter fluid so someone somewhere close buy is firing up their bar-b-que grill. This being Philadelphia everyone who could went "down the shore" (what do Philadelphians have against prepositions?). The local news programs are devoted to stories about "the shore" - like that's all that's happening in the world these days. I suppose if I want national or international news I can read my NY Times, that's why I pay 60 some-odd dollars a month to get it, right?
My back is painful today. It seems, regardless of what they say, a memory foam mattress does NOT work well on a platform bed and so I have ordered bunky boards to go between the slats and the mattress. They won't be here till Wednesday. My eye and the right side of my face are still swollen and painful from the bug bite I got yesterday, while I no longer hate everything I'm still not living in happy-camper-ville.
But weather-wise it is a truly glorious day. I'm sitting here typing and just can't get past the deathly silence. It was like that in Alexandria. There were weekends when we thought we were in the Twilight Zone, that somehow we had become the only people left on the planet. One doesn't expect that in a city tho.
So quiet, so quiet....
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I live in the country down here in Georgia and so I take the quiet for granted. When we have visitors from the city, they remind us how nice it is.
Mason: I am not overly fond of quiet. I love the sounds of a city, particularly trains and traffic. I can live without the sounds of motorcycles tho, that really grates on my nerves. I've lived in rural areas, just about drove me insane. I'm SO not a quiet country girl.
Your day sounds just like mine, except for the bug bite (Ouch! Hope it gets better soon). I'm in the burbs and usually you hear someone mowing the lawn on a Saturday, but not today. Oddly enough, there weren't any big parties at the neighbors', so yes, it's very quiet. Though I expect tonight will be loud with fireworks. Strange day, huh?
Kathy: Yeah, the bug bite on my eye lid was part of yesterday's bad day. And yes, it is a very strange day ambiance-wise.
Mmm. . . memory foam mattress. I hope you're able to get it to work properly. As for quiet: it rained here all day yesterday (cleared up for the fireworks), which didn't stop the parade at the end of our block. Quiet? What quiet?
Grace - I know what you mean - this morning is so quiet - little birds chirping, a single crow trying to sound tough a half-mile away, three rabbits bouncing on the lawn eating the weeds, a mourning dove all puffed up in the maple tree outside the dining room and a squirrel already burying some food for winter near the base of one of the apple trees. I feel like I am in a disney movie. I haven't been up this early in awhile. I never knew the sun rose (on July fifth) way the heck over here < - - - I'm more familiar with winter sunrise which is, you know, over there - - - -> relatively speaking, facing east as I am. I'm going to see if I can search on the 'google noize' search engine to see if I can find some site that will give us some good (bad?) taxi horn blasts to play.
Have a good sunday.
Koe: Even in "comments" you write beautifully.
JD: We were going to buy a new mattress and get them to throw in the boards for free, till I priced a new mattress. These puppies are expensive!
Grace - thank you so much. I need a good prompt - and your post about how quiet it was gave me all the inspiration I needed. I hope you had a good day today.
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