I love windy days (when we're not under a tornado watch). I opened most of the windows, and I can feel the breezes clearing out the stale winter air. The screens whistle a quiet tune as the wind squeezes through the small openings. It's a sweet melody of Spring. This year, I have the added gift of chime music. I had been hinting, for several years, right around Mother's Day, "boy, wouldn't it be nice to have a lovely wind chime right outside my door?" But no one caught on. On a trip to visit Xenia daughter, I stopped to check out a farm market, set up in a lovely old barn. I bought some plums, and some delicata squash, and then something else caught my attention. I noticed a wind chime with a decorative metal chicken. I like chickens, but I don't want to take care of chickens every day, so this seemed like the perfect thing. A chicken that chimes, but doesn't eat or poop! I splurged on a gift for myself (which I very rarely do) and I am enjoying immensely, especially on windy days. If I need to hear it on calm days, I walk outside and rattle it. It's such a soothing sound.
I also have my standard, windy day joke. I just walk outside and yell, "Dorothy!!!" (From one of my all-time favorite movies, The Wizard of OZ.) None of the neighbors have ever laughed. I'm guessing they must think that one of the cats' names is Dorothy. Or else, they have no sense of humor. I going with reason # 2, because our nearby neighbors are crabby (even though they smoke weed ALL THE TIME, which I thought was supposed to keep people calm. It doesn't work for our neighbors. 🙄 The wind chimes help to drown out all of their yelling at their kids (and sometimes at me). I just point to my chimes and my ears, making hand motions which say, "I can't hear you!" It's great. For all I know, they might be cussing me out because my chimes wake them up at night. Honestly, I'm thinking about installing a few more wind chimes, with a horse, a cow and a pig. We'll have a regular cacophony of barnyard chimers. And I'll never hear another word from the crabby neighbors!
Anyway, I still have my own fun, here in the land of crazy neighbors. I laugh at my own jokes, and enjoy the sun and the wind, working in my lovely flower garden, and in my raised bed vegetable garden, and listening to my beautifully noisy chimes. I hope we have a reliably windy summer, especially after I find some more affordably-priced wind chimes!
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