More Sounds!

One of the delights of living out here is what I call taking care of "Bits and Pieces."  By that I mean that I will start on one project and end up doing something there, then a bit over here, then some other piece of a project in another place.  This especially is true in the Garden, when I'll start out weeding some patch underneath a tree in the orchard, and then, while I'm carrying the first load of green waste away, see that the compost heap needs turning, then I'll go over to rake the sand in the Bird Garden; and then, it's time for cleaning another tree well.  So it is with Blogging and working on The Website.  I start a thread of thinking regarding some aspect of living in SMA (like Sounds in the Campo, and then I'll work on a YouTube Video for awhile, then I'll tweak some ad like Craig's List.  And then it's another few days before I am, figuratively speaking, back under the tree in the orchard.
But, here I am.  To round out the week of sounds, from the village and beyond......  Sunday has more Veggie Vending.  And, maybe importantly, there is the absent sound, the Church Bell.  The small village doesn't have a priest living and working with the people, here.  Rather, there are priests that come from the larger areas, of which this village is a parish member.  Services are not usually "rung" in, so to speak, on Sundays.  The bells do ring, at different times:  When services are conducted by the priest of lay members; when there is a call to church-affiliated classes; when there is a holy celebration; and when someone dies.
There are other sounds throughout the week, from Monday on.  Occasional trucks rumbling up to the Bull Farm (just a bit past our area), faints sounds of traffic on the highway, occasional planes passing overhead.  Some mornings, on clear, mostly still mornings, a sound somewhat like a blast furnace can be heard.  It usually takes a minute for me to remember what it is and where it's coming from before I look up toward the southwestern sky.  There, one (or sometimes more) of the SMA Hot Air Balloons is rising up above SMA, for the grand view.  Often, the Balloons will travel overhead, making a tour of the lands north and east of the city.
Compared to the city noise, the sounds out here, because they are more transitory, do not pound deep into the unconscious, creating a stress layer.  Unlike the city, many of the sounds here are pastoral and resonate more naturally with the rhythms of the day.  And even the less "natural" sounds have their place in the daily life of all of us who live here.