Sunday noise

[toppop52]

Yeah, we have normal cat noises. Then we have that special cat noise that means "There's gonna be a huge furball on the carpet if you don't get up and move me in 5 seconds!"

For some reason, every cat or dog we've every had thinks it has to run from the hard floor to the carpet to barf!

I see that too, why is that?

 

[toppop52]

Where I grew up near South Mills, NC we heard 4-5 church's bells every Sunday, depending on wind direction.

 

[daugen]

Where I grew up near South Mills, NC we heard 4-5 church's bells every Sunday, depending on wind direction.

now that's right next to the Great Dismal Swamp...ever worry about swamp creatures as a little kid? They'd come out of the swamp and get under
your bed?..... They could not have been as bad as the monsters who lived in the 70 acres of rocky woods behind our house. There were foxes living in
granite caves back there, and we just knew there was "bigger stuff" back there...only came out in the dark of course. Small linen closet on second floor of our home
which you had to pass by on the way to the bathroom at night, open that door, pitch black in there, big imaginary hole to the outside, just knew that's how the monsters got in.
always pushed that door shut when I went by.... the joys of being a kid with an active imagination

Where you grew up should be remarkably good farmland, rich dark soil. That area going down towards Elizabeth City is known
for being super productive, yields much higher than normal. My soil is a sandpit in comparison.

 

[daugen]

How about church organs? Oh, bring them on, loud as can be.
perhaps because I sit in silence mostly in my faith can I appreciate the wonderful
sounds coming out of giant church pipe organs.

I toured Europe only once and went in many large cathedrals, only once was music playing
and it was utterly magical. No matter what you believed in, it was moving.
If a train can rumble my house, why not a pipe organ?

aren't big pipe organs the original subwoofers?...

 

[toppop52]

now that's right next to the Great Dismal Swamp...ever worry about swamp creatures as a little kid? They'd come out of the swamp and get under
your bed?..... They could not have been as bad as the monsters who lived in the 70 acres of rocky woods behind our house. There were foxes living in
granite caves back there, and we just knew there was "bigger stuff" back there...only came out in the dark of course. Small linen closet on second floor of our home
which you had to pass by on the way to the bathroom at night, open that door, pitch black in there, big imaginary hole to the outside, just knew that's how the monsters got in.
always pushed that door shut when I went by.... the joys of being a kid with an active imagination

Where you grew up should be remarkably good farmland, rich dark soil. That area going down towards Elizabeth City is known
for being super productive, yields much higher than normal. My soil is a sandpit in comparison.

My Uncle Bill farmed 3500 acres next to the swamp just north of South Mills. Corn yields were the envy of most of the country. I didn't have to imagine monsters, we had bobcats, cougars, black bears, alligators, rattlers, cottonmouths, copperheads, coral snakes, black widows, brown recluse...and don't forget bigfoot!

 

[N80]

Where I grew up near South Mills, NC we heard 4-5 church's bells every Sunday, depending on wind direction.

I am sometimes the bell ringer at my church. Long cable comes down from the bell tower. The bell is huge. Ring it 11 times prior to the 11:00 service.

 

[toppop52]

I am sometimes the bell ringer at my church. Long cable comes down from the bell tower. The bell is huge. Ring it 11 times prior to the 11:00 service.

That's how ours were, I remember the rhythm of the rope when you rung the bell, felt sort of like a rocker. Took some practice.
We had a lot of chimes as well.

 

[daugen]

I am sometimes the bell ringer at my church. Long cable comes down from the bell tower. The bell is huge. Ring it 11 times prior to the 11:00 service.

that sounds like great fun. Bong Bong

and on any Sunday, if Julie wants to come sing in my fields and throw rocks in my pond, well she sure is invited to come make some noise here.
Julie Andrews The Hills Are ALive - YouTube

 

[toppop52]

that sounds like great fun. Bong Bong

and on any Sunday, if Julie wants to come sing in my fields and throw rocks in my pond, well she sure is invited to come make some noise here.
Julie Andrews The Hills Are ALive - YouTube

She did a topless scene once later in her career.

 

[N80]

That's how ours were, I remember the rhythm of the rope when you rung the bell, felt sort of like a rocker. Took some practice.
We had a lot of chimes as well.

Yep. It takes a long firm pull to get it going and then you just have to stay in rhythm with its momentum. Pull to hard and the bell flips over and sticks and several people have to go up in the tower and flip it back down.

Of course, ringing the bell on Sunday morning might bother some folks. But probably not as much as the trains right next to the church or the invariable open pipe Harley that goes by during the prayer.:laughing: