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What a wonderful mind you have. Ever think of taking up writing for a
living? I think you would probably outsell Stephen King. "paghat" wrote in message ... Wind chims in gardens are horrifying. They are noisy & annoying & disturb the natural sounds a garden can engender with birds & crickets & rainfall & rustling leaves & water features. When some loon collects ten to sixty rackety hanging bits of ugly-ass chimes to dangle all around the edges of their home, they make themselves a nuisance to their neighborhood. Such collectors should be shot dead by their own drug-dealing teenagers during a drive-by, the corpse buried under dismantled windchimes & left to decay right there on the broken-down porch of the chimester's trailer house. -paghat the ratgirl -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ |
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Thanks to everyone who answered. There are windchimes and then there are
windchimes. Some do jangle the nerves. However, I live about 1000 feet from my nearest neighbor and I doubt if a truly melodious chime will bother them. If it does my neighbor will no doubt set up a pig sty on the windward side of me as he frequently threatens. "Broomhilda" wrote in message nk.net... I have heard about a windchime that is sort of tuned???? Don't know what they are called. Can anyone help me? Thanks a bunch Broom Hilda |
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Thanks to everyone who answered. There are windchimes and then there are
windchimes. Some do jangle the nerves. However, I live about 1000 feet from my nearest neighbor and I doubt if a truly melodious chime will bother them. If it does my neighbor will no doubt set up a pig sty on the windward side of me as he frequently threatens. "Broomhilda" wrote in message nk.net... I have heard about a windchime that is sort of tuned???? Don't know what they are called. Can anyone help me? Thanks a bunch Broom Hilda |
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Hay! I just invented a biodegradable wind chime, not only does it biodegrade
over time, but it's sound can not be heard by anyone. It's made from paper tubes. -- "In this universe the night was falling,the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the stars were still young and the light of morning lingered: and along the path he once had followed, man would one day go again." Arthur C. Clarke, The City & The Stars SIAR www.starlords.org Freelance Writers Shop http://www.freelancewrittersshop.netfirms.com Telescope Buyers FAQ http://home.inreach.com/starlord Ad World http://adworld.netfirms.com "Broomhilda" wrote in message nk.net... Here you are. Don't forget to listen to them. http://pineridgeonline.com/chimes/we...andelite.shtml --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.560 / Virus Database: 352 - Release Date: 1/8/04 |
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They wouldn't last long here in the High Mojave Desert, the first good blow is
spring time would take'm down for good. Last year we recorded 2 days of near 80mph winds ( Mojave itself clocked winds of near 100mph those same days ) -- "In this universe the night was falling,the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the stars were still young and the light of morning lingered: and along the path he once had followed, man would one day go again." Arthur C. Clarke, The City & The Stars SIAR www.starlords.org Freelance Writers Shop http://www.freelancewrittersshop.netfirms.com Telescope Buyers FAQ http://home.inreach.com/starlord Ad World http://adworld.netfirms.com "madgardener" wrote in message ... Those would be Woodstock windchimes. AWESOME windchimes that are a bit expensive but of superior quality. I found mine at BookaMillion bookstore but sure you might find them online if you try a link g --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.560 / Virus Database: 352 - Release Date: 1/8/04 |
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Fortunately there are only 2 sets of windchimes within hearing district. This
is (the far edge of) the Garden District and one set belongs to the next-door rectory, the other to a low-key lesbian couple two doors down. I doubt anyone would dare tell "Father Pat" that they didn't like his wind chimes (the church bells are much louder, but still pleasing) and the average inhabitant may well cross himself passing the house with the rainbow banner. I enjoy hearing all the bells out in my garden, but I wouldn't want "a tinntinnabulation of wind chimes" to infest the block. zemedelec |
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wrote: "paghat" wrote in message ... Wind chims in gardens are horrifying. They are noisy & annoying & disturb the natural sounds a garden can engender with birds & crickets & rainfall & rustling leaves & water features. When some loon collects ten to sixty rackety hanging bits of ugly-ass chimes to dangle all around the edges of their home, they make themselves a nuisance to their neighborhood. Such collectors should be shot dead by their own drug-dealing teenagers during a drive-by, the corpse buried under dismantled windchimes & left to decay right there on the broken-down porch of the chimester's trailer house. -paghat the ratgirl -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ There are several things, in my opinion, much more annoying than wind chimes. 1. Never-ending barking dogs. 2. Boom-boxes with the volume and bass set way too high. 3. Bouncing basketballs. 4. Neighbors that permit the first three to happen and don't seem to care how much their neighbors are bothered. Hound Dog I agree with all but #3, bouncing basketballs don't strike me as a big noise, & the general noisy mayhem of children screaming & playing games has always seemed to me rather pleasant, & usually transient even when kids get a bit out of hand. But surprisingly basketball hoops attached to garages are banned in quite a few intrusive rule-making neighborhoods, & in some areas of dense housing there is rigorous police enforcement against free-standing street-hoops so that basketball is de facto banned due to no legal location for hoops. But to me the bigger issues in such cases would be the lack of nearby places for children to play legally, & the tragedy of such overcrowded housing developments -- atop which the banning of idle play is a monstrous thing, though certainly common so it would seem many agree with you. #1 & #2 however are certainly bad things, so much so that #1 is illegal in just about every municipality in the USA with fines attached & a legal mechanism for eventually having the dog taken away if the problem is not resolved by the dog owner. #2 would be illegal at night in nearly all municipalities, but more difficult to regulate during daylight hours. It's a happy wonder that my own neighborhood has only well-behaved dogs (occasional poo in my gardens doesn't annoy me, & in general I like the doggies), well-behaved children who are true joys to have wandering through, & in the main well-behaved homeowners. Even the block's one canterkerous old coot has more good than bad in his nature, & is only occasionaly a noisy fellow screaming dirty words at his deaf old dog. But I lived most of my adult life inner city, & I remember what it was like to have some dumbass teenager sitting in his car with its booming stereo system blasting for hours at a time & his own parents so scared of their kid they daren't tell him he's being rude. In those days I wished I lived on a mountain somewhere where I couldn't hear anyone at all in the world, but then I'd visit a chum at her mountain home on ten acres & all day long had to listen to the chainsaw on the next ten acres over, from a neighbor who even put up a hideous soda lamp to glare across his clear-cut field destroying any hope of a forest having a night. It's a wonder to me that humans actually are tribal or pack-animals by nature, since we get on so poorly with one another, & so frequently make bad neighbors harrassing others by nuisance behaviors. -paggers -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ |
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In article et,
"Broomhilda" wrote: What a wonderful mind you have. Ever think of taking up writing for a living? I think you would probably outsell Stephen King. No one outsells Stephen King. Though you may not have meant that, in fact Stephen's a pal; he wrote a generous introduction for one of my books years ago. That was an anthology of new writers & when I told Stephen these unheard-of folks would not be easy sales on the strength of their names, he lent his, writing a long juicy introduction commenting on each tale. This insured that the volume became a bestseller on genre lists, which in turn made it easy to sell a second volume. That's old history now, & a few of those then-new writers have gone on to great success, others have never been heard of since. More recently: at start of this month I sold a tale called "A Bottle of Egyptian Night" to a major anthology; I had a collection of my own tales issued in December by a Canadian publisher as THE DEEP MUSEUM; & I have my own edited-series called "Grim Maids," collections of Victorian women's supernatural tales (volume 5 appeared last November as THE EMPIRE OF DEATH, complete weird tales of Alice Brown, with my monograph on her life & works for introduction; & will turn in a new volume within a couple weeks after a final revision of the long introduction, that one'll be issued as THE DREAMS OF GHOSTS, complete supernatural tales of Annie Trumbull Slosson). Then just three weeks ago I was called up by Fox television who want to option an old novel of mine for a mini-series. Productions almost never follow mere options, but I immediately turned the negotiation over to my agent to try to get the most possible for the mere option since odds are against my ever getting anything else out of the deal. Though if I ever do get to see it produced by Fox, woo-hoo! Fox's vice-pres asked me to imagine Lucy Lu starring, so even as "just talk" this has been a bit of a thrill. Even with some slightly noticeable success, however, it's a stupid way to try to make a living, & it has made me the opposite of rich -- though at least I've not had to have any boss but myself for a couple of decades. -paggers "paghat" wrote in message ... Wind chims in gardens are horrifying. They are noisy & annoying & disturb the natural sounds a garden can engender with birds & crickets & rainfall & rustling leaves & water features. When some loon collects ten to sixty rackety hanging bits of ugly-ass chimes to dangle all around the edges of their home, they make themselves a nuisance to their neighborhood. Such collectors should be shot dead by their own drug-dealing teenagers during a drive-by, the corpse buried under dismantled windchimes & left to decay right there on the broken-down porch of the chimester's trailer house. -paghat the ratgirl -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ |
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In article , "Starlord"
wrote: Hay! I just invented a biodegradable wind chime, not only does it biodegrade over time, but it's sound can not be heard by anyone. It's made from paper tubes. One day when digging around in the garden I dug up a hunk of metal that was clearly one part of a windchime mobile, & I ran a piece of string through it & hung it on a cherry tree. Two years later it's still hanging the http://www.paghat.com/images/hangingcat.jpg -paggers -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ |
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irony mode on
Paghat writes: One day when digging around in the garden I dug up a hunk of metal that Hanging hunks of metal in gardens are horrifying. They are ugly & annoying & disturb the natural views a garden can engender with plants & rocks & squirrels & deer & fluttering leaves & water features. When some loon collects ten to sixty rackety hanging bits of ugly-ass metal to dangle all around the edges of their home, they make themselves a nuisance to their neighborhood. Such collectors should be shot dead by their own drug-dealing teenagers during a drive-by, the corpse buried under dismantled junk & left to decay right there on the broken-down porch of the junkmester's trailer house. /irony mode tongue firmly in cheek since i think the patina is nice... i'm just trying to make a point. (although it's easier to not look than to not listen.) -- be safe. flip Verso l'esterno! Verso l'esterno! Deamons di ignoranza. Remove origin of the word spam from address to reply (leave "+") |
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Lewis wrote: irony mode on Paghat writes: One day when digging around in the garden I dug up a hunk of metal that Hanging hunks of metal in gardens are horrifying. They are ugly & annoying & disturb the natural views a garden can engender with plants & rocks & squirrels & deer & fluttering leaves & water features. When some loon collects ten to sixty rackety hanging bits of ugly-ass metal to dangle all around the edges of their home, they make themselves a nuisance to their neighborhood. Such collectors should be shot dead by their own drug-dealing teenagers during a drive-by, the corpse buried under dismantled junk & left to decay right there on the broken-down porch of the junkmester's trailer house. Yr quite right -- garden knickknackery sucks for interferring with natural landscapes -- but we all have our weaknesses. -paggers -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ |
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I kind of write Sci-Fi shorts.
http://adworld.netfirms.com -- "In this universe the night was falling,the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the stars were still young and the light of morning lingered: and along the path he once had followed, man would one day go again." Arthur C. Clarke, The City & The Stars SIAR www.starlords.org Freelance Writers Shop http://www.freelancewrittersshop.netfirms.com Telescope Buyers FAQ http://home.inreach.com/starlord Ad World http://adworld.netfirms.com "Broomhilda" wrote in message nk.net... So, under what name are your books published? I don't know Stephen King although my best friend lives close to him. I think Stephen King is a great writer but I don't read him anymore. I don't like his subject matter. Salem's Lot scared me so badly. I was sitting alone in a field in the mountains one night and I swear the trees started closing in on me and it was all Stephen King's fault. Haven't read another of his since. s "paghat" wrote in message ... In article et, "Broomhilda" wrote: What a wonderful mind you have. Ever think of taking up writing for a living? I think you would probably outsell Stephen King. No one outsells Stephen King. Though you may not have meant that, in fact Stephen's a pal; he wrote a generous introduction for one of my books years ago. That was an anthology of new writers & when I told Stephen these unheard-of folks would not be easy sales on the strength of their names, he lent his, writing a long juicy introduction commenting on each tale. This insured that the volume became a bestseller on genre lists, which in turn made it easy to sell a second volume. That's old history now, & a few of those then-new writers have gone on to great success, others have never been heard of since. More recently: at start of this month I sold a tale called "A Bottle of Egyptian Night" to a major anthology; I had a collection of my own tales issued in December by a Canadian publisher as THE DEEP MUSEUM; & I have my own edited-series called "Grim Maids," collections of Victorian women's supernatural tales (volume 5 appeared last November as THE EMPIRE OF DEATH, complete weird tales of Alice Brown, with my monograph on her life & works for introduction; & will turn in a new volume within a couple weeks after a final revision of the long introduction, that one'll be issued as THE DREAMS OF GHOSTS, complete supernatural tales of Annie Trumbull Slosson). Then just three weeks ago I was called up by Fox television who want to option an old novel of mine for a mini-series. Productions almost never follow mere options, but I immediately turned the negotiation over to my agent to try to get the most possible for the mere option since odds are against my ever getting anything else out of the deal. Though if I ever do get to see it produced by Fox, woo-hoo! Fox's vice-pres asked me to imagine Lucy Lu starring, so even as "just talk" this has been a bit of a thrill. Even with some slightly noticeable success, however, it's a stupid way to try to make a living, & it has made me the opposite of rich -- though at least I've not had to have any boss but myself for a couple of decades. -paggers "paghat" wrote in message ... Wind chims in gardens are horrifying. They are noisy & annoying & disturb the natural sounds a garden can engender with birds & crickets & rainfall & rustling leaves & water features. When some loon collects ten to sixty rackety hanging bits of ugly-ass chimes to dangle all around the edges of their home, they make themselves a nuisance to their neighborhood. Such collectors should be shot dead by their own drug-dealing teenagers during a drive-by, the corpse buried under dismantled windchimes & left to decay right there on the broken-down porch of the chimester's trailer house. -paghat the ratgirl -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.560 / Virus Database: 352 - Release Date: 1/8/04 |
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