Noise.....

Rembrandt

For some reason I noticed an unusual amount of noise in my world today.....radio's blarring, conversations, train horns, machinery, 2 way radios, phones, pager, TV, traffic, sirens and unidentified background noise,....Oh the world of discomfort we create for ourselves.......came home tonight to a few birds chirpping outside my window....sure is relaxing when the noise gets turned off.........

William81

I can relate to what you're saying. I usually stop by a small lake on the way home from work most night and just listen to the wind or make a few casts. I think the world would drive me crazy if I could not do this.

Rosie

Rembrandt
If you want to hear a really really loud noise you should be in one of my weekly meetings when someone cuts a big one! Now thats a loud noise!!

Rembrandt

Rosie....at least I can turn the sound off on my computer and not hear the distant thunder from your meetings, thank goodness no one has invented a "scratch and sniff" monitor yet...

Rafter-S

Here on the Rafter-S, the only sounds are an occasional bellering calf wanting to get in the next pasture...and the sissortails and blue birds chirping as they compete for the same grasshopper. At night it is a different matter. If it's not the owls hooting back and forth at each other, it's a zillion frogs chattering away. And about twice a week, the local family of coyotes come up close to the house and yap until George (dog in charge of critter control) starts barking. Then I have to go out on the porch and yell to run 'em off. Oh, for a little peace and quiet.:-)

stanman

Rem,
Felt the same way a couple of days ago. I needed some peace and quiet, and in a household with 4 women, theres little to be had at home. Don't get me wrong, I love them all dearly and consider myself lucky that hugs and kisses can usually be had from at least one of them on any given day.
But let's face it, peace and quiet it ain't!
Anyway, I strapped on my .357, grabbed a handful of 110 grain HPs, and headed down the road to a creek bottom that I used to walk, hunt and fish as boy. I found it mostly as I'd left it many moons ago. Sat and tried my luck at calling in a yotedog. Got hunted by 1 eagle, 2 red-tailed hawks and (this was a first for me) a great blue heron, but no coyotes. I found myself thinking about this forum and it's members, and decided that with few exceptions, I would have enjoyed sharing the moment, and just maybe they would have enjoyed it too.
Just a thought that we sometimes concentrate so much on our differences, that we forget about the commonalities that brought us here in the first place.

Do we need a seperate forum for sappy posts?

SXSMAN

If I fart in the forest and there's no one there to here it,does it still smell?

No really,funny thing about noise,it can be irritating or soothing.The sound or lack there of in a cave I find spooky but the sounds of a lake deep in Maine at midnite,man I wish I was there!

Have guns,will travel

guns-n-painthorses

So, If a man is talking in a forest, and there is no woman around to hear him,,, is he still wrong?

idsman75

I can't stand sound period. Unless there is perfect silence I get a little irritated. I think it stems from sleeping after a night shift and having the neighbor who blasted his radio during the day. Natural sound is the only sound that gives me peace. I don't like hearing birds chirping when I wake up. It makes me feel lazy because even the birds were awake before me. I go into panic mode because I didn't start the day early enough (even if it is 5am).

SSG idsman75, U.S. ARMY

Big Sky Redneck

Noise that is not supposed to be there bothers me. Like the neioghbors dog at night, if they only knew how many times I've stuck a short in the .22 and put crosshairs on that mutt.................

I have a freind that move up here from Tampa and he says it's too quiet, he needs to hear city noise to be comfortable.