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 Crickets
chirp, bees buzzzzzz, mosquitoes whine, flies drone, birds call
to their mates but hummingbirds whirr, cicada chorus in the
trees, cats meow, dogs bark, people speak out to one another,
wooden porch swings squeak, screen doors slam, children play
outside with their friends yelling baseball commands and laugh
and squeal and sing, thunder claps, lightning crashes, water
splashes, frogs croak, fish jump; but did you know?.......the
cricket can tell us the temperature without a thermometer.
With temperatures climbing the sounds of chirping crickets
punctuate the evenings. Did you know that as the mercury
rises, so does the rate of the cricket's chirping? A
cricket chirps 10 times in 15 seconds when the air temperature
is 50 deg. F When the temperature is 70 deg F, the cricket
will chirp 30 times in 15 seconds. The Fahrenheit temperature is
always 40 degrees higher than the number of chirps.
Listen...............can you hear them?
 I
walked on the beach
And picked up a shell
And held it close to my ear.
And what
did I hear?
R-O-A-R S-w-i-s-h
R-O-A-R S-w-i-s-h
The sound of the sea I did hear. Author Unknown
Old Man Ocean,
how do you pound
Smooth glass, rough stones round?
Time and the tide and the wild waves rolling
Night and the wind and the long gray dawn.
Old Man Ocean,
what do you tell,
What do you sing in the empty shell?
Fog and the storm and the long bell tolling,
Bones in the deep and the brave men gone. Russell Hoban
The sounds of
the sea are not always mournful. Crashing tides and gulls
collide, a warm cup of morning coffee, a good book and a cozy
fringed shawl, sandpiper piping along, wind in my hair and
footprints leading to water's edge; that's my kind of morning.
All's right with the world for at least this moment.
Paintings by Marti Doyle-Steed
(More Sounds of
Summer)
Send us your
thoughts of the summer season. Original Art, Short Stories,
Poems and Other Musings welcome!
Hi there to
those of you viewing this page.......It's already September
(where has the summer gone?), and where
are your entries for our web site?! Surely you must have a fond
summer memory you would like to share with all of us!! A little
doodle that made you laugh? Something fun you will do or
have done already this summer? Suggestions for those of us
that sit at a desk all too long?! A "forward" that struck
your fancy? Just send me an email to say Hi or give me a
suggestion on what you would like to see in the Country
Digest......Marti
9/20/04
Just received this wonderful email. A little reminder that I
should be posting the Fall Digest soon, soon, all too soon; but
the writer is correct---Fall is a wonderful season too!!!
Thank you for your thoughts!!!
"I was reading through your entry on the sounds of summer, and
realized that summer has come and gone before my eyes. Where
does the time go? Now you look outside and see on the
mountain tops the colors of the fall season coming through.
Every season does have its beauty.
I do so enjoy fall mornings. Throwing on a light jacket,
walking outside with my cup of coffee and breathing in the
crisp air. Planning day trips to the local nurseries to go
pick out the perfect pumpkin for your jack-o'-lantern, gourds,
mums and straw to make that yearly scarecrow. No matter how
scary you try to make him, he always ends up looking like the
scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz. Yet another great memory of
the fall season!!!! I don't care how many times I have seen
the Wizard of Oz, or how old I am, I still get excited when it
comes on.
Yes, the days are getting shorter and it may make some of us
sad; but with the shorter days comes other great things like
the celebrations at Thanksgiving and Christmas with the smells
of apple pie, Turkey, hot cider, hot chocolate, sugar cookies
and sooo much more.
So, here is to the fall and all the beauty that it has to
offer us!!! Thank you for allowing me to share my feelings of
the season "
Email:
Marti@SteedRealEstate.com
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Shui Summer Tips
On a Personal
Note: Our Trip to
North Carolina
August 16th:
Last week we visited our daughter and her husband, Bridget &
Tom, who live near Raleigh, NC. Have you ever seen
the lightning bugs (fireflies) in North Carolina? They are
huge!!!! They can literally light your room with their
phosphorescent bodies. We went to a store nearby and
found a delightful set of bug catching tools containing two nets
for gentle capture and a bug house with just the right amount of
ventilation. Sadly I had to leave before the hunt; but I
am sure that Bridget will be in her yard performing a roundup in
the near future.
We shared some
fond memories of catching lightning bugs when she was little,
putting them in a jar with a wax paper top held with an elastic
band, punching small holes and hoping that they wouldn't die
before morning. I found many the jar under the covers in
the morning and emptied them before she woke. I would tell her
that they had all flown away during the night through the holes;
and some actually had, only to appear the next night flying
around the room free like Tinker Bell. Maybe one was Tinker
Bell, you never know!? You know the best thing about
lightning bugs? .......You are never too old to enjoy them!!!!
PS. I
also came home with a 9 week old Chocolate Lab whom I have named
Shannon.
 More about Shannon later............She is a delight to have
near. Lots of work but well worth it. I have been bringing
her to the office and I have many wonderful pictures of her.
My sounds of summer are now
entwined with puppy barks and squeals, who wants a quiet house
anyway?
If your pets would like to
correspond with Shannon to say hello or to share humorous or
endearing pet stories please email:
Shannon@SteedRealEstate.com
Shannon's Page
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