Thursday, April 27, 2006
e-Spring Harbinger!
I was sitting in my kitchen with friends one balmy afternoon last month when I heard an unfamiliar chirping sound. I looked around and said, "It reminds me of the sound my smoke detector used to make when the battery was dying, but that was before I moved here, where I don't have any smoke detectors." Mystified, I ran through the list of appliance beeps and chirps, and took a quick walk around the apartment looking for the exceptional blinking light. Nothing. When I returned to the kitchen, Lisa shot me an amused look: "Savtadotty, it's a bird. Outside. In a tree."
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The same thing happened here! I looked all over for a mechanical problem when I could have been appreciating a natural wonder. Birdsong. All too rare these days...so sad.
lucyd
Ah yes, nice to know it was a bird. And aren't we glad that we don't yet live in a "Silent Spring"
Ooh, I wish I could hear birds from my window (honk, siren, trash cans, shouting teens....)Enjoy!
My favorite outside-the-bedroom-window sound is the clip-clopping of an occasional horse-drawn wagon. It's either collecting old appliances or bringing watermelons to market.
Oh, I love this. So funny.
Silly question: are birds seasonal there too? I imagined that Israel would be warm all the time & therefore that the birds would stay year-round.
Sometimes I wake up to wild turkeys conversing: "Bluck, bluck..."
Oh I love it, I love it! You technogeek.
*concerned* Why do you not have smoke detectors?
udge - John's answer is the one I wanted to give you. But we do seem to have pigeons year round.
john - thanks. did you know there is a migratory bird watch in Eilat twice a year? You can go down there as a volunteer and band birds all day!
heidi - wild turkeys? Where do you live?
lioness - geeky grandma 'r us!
anonymous - I love your concern! No need for smoke detectors here: old buildings are constructed out of stone, cement, sand, and tile. Newer ones add steel. Hardly any wood. Whenever I hear sirens, I can be 99% certain they're not fire engines.
I'm still concerned. Do you mean that because of the bulding materials, fires tend not to spread? But can't fires can still happen within a unit? And can't smoke still spread? Can fire spread through the door of your apartment?
anonymous - yes, that's what I mean. I have a steel door. Each room has at least one window. And then there are 2 balconies. Most apartments here have balconies. I'm really curious about your interest: do you have a personal reason for the concern?
I suppose it's simply a foreign idea to me not to have a smoke detector.
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