During the day there's lots of birds singing in the trees and the occaisional horse or cow sounds, roosters crowing, but, the good stuff starts at dusk. Just after the Redtailed Hawk patrols the area a different bunch of birds starts singing as the sun goes down, then at night we hear the Great Horned Owl that lives in the tree down by the gate. An old married couple of foxes get noisy sometimes at night and the coyote can be heard howling up by the road (quarter mile from the house) which usually sets off packs of dogs at some of the neighboring properties.

We hear hundreds of frogs at night like a background musical score, all chanting in unison and then suddenly all stopping at the same time, begining again slowly, in groups, and building to a steady rythmic blanket of sound.

yes, summer is a nice time to sit outside and just listen...

nous avons quelques mouffettes, mais ça ne fais pas de bruit. Ça pu!



now try to translate!! pure Québécois

Hmm, well, there's a farm across the street with sheeps and a cow and such (one of those educational city farms for us city kids) and ofcourse there the graveyard (also across the street) with masses of crows and ravens. And seeing I live close by the sea, lot's of seabirds as well.

Not that I'm going to notice anything...

Behind our house the nature starts, as I live a bit outside the city. If you walk for about 10-15 minutes you get to a big, open field with three or four very old trees on it. One of these trees is my favourite place, I climb it if I want to think about something, or study, or come up with new ideas.
If I look out of my window, though, weather's not too good right now, ideal computer weather, otherwis I wouldn't be here.
And no, there are no animal noises where I live, besides my cat making a huge noise every morning to make us get up and let him in
- envy at frogboy for the wireless Internet... I just need a laptop and a mobile, and someone to pay it... bah, can't even pay a 'normal' pc

hehehe I did my best to have missspells on it

ok ok ok I give you the meaning of mouffette=skunk

so try to guess for the rest MOUAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I found mouette, but that's ... well, what's that in english? sea gull, I think. It's a bit difficult if you translate from one foreign language to another

bananafactor: http://wordreference.com/fr/en/translation.asp?fren=mouffette

Well, next to BoXXi, my little place in the sun doesn't really sound like much

I'm in Southwestern Ontario, Canada so my climate is virtually identical to FrogBoy's (unless you live in N. Mich but I seem to recall you mentioning a Detroit and suburb in some post a while back). My deck out in the back overlooks our backyard which is quite tree-filled and thus have the resultant collection of residence wildlife including about a dozen squirrels (one of which has a white tip on his tail), a family of chipmunks, and unfortunately a skunk or two. Last summer we also had a rabbit living around us somewhere as it was often seen munching away on grass. Each year a pair of birds build their nest in this light-thingy we have hanging. It really is quite peaceful and beautiful. Also like Brad, I can take the laptop out there although I do it through a 100ft. Cat5 cable (haven't made the jump to wireless yet)

Well I'm not as gifted a writer as Frogboy but I too live in Michigan. I am located right across the street from Lake Huron and have a very clear view of the water. My deck is located on the front of my house and I quite often sit and comtemplate the works of Plato as I ponder all of lifes mysterys. (Please ignore last remark, I got carried away)We have countless squirels running all over the place and they are fun to watch. Ours squirels are all of the black or grey models. The brown ones all live down south of me in the greater Detroit area. I am retired so I spend a lot of time on my computer and totally enjoy all of the Object Desktop programs. I am not a programer but I really wish I could. I read all of the posts in the News area and eventually hope to be able to actually get some of these great applets to work. For the time being I download the various themes and wonder in awe of the people that have the ability to create them. I would be quite happy just to be able to get the various included objects within the themes (like the themes folder to hold the themes that I download)But I digress. For the major excitment of my morning, I walk my two yellow labs along the beach for a couple of miles and think of days gone past.

When you're a single guy living in an apartment, summer means listening to neighbors blasting rock music! :/