Doesn't ever come to an end here. Yes there are peaks when day shifters go to work from about 4:00 AM to 9:30 AM the traffic on the road is heavy. Then just shoppers till about noon when the second shifters go to work till about 2:00PM. then the day shifters start coming home around 3:00PM till about 6:00PM and tricklers till 10:00PM when the 3d shifters are off to work, around 11:00PM when the second shifters come home. Always traffic on the road and it is full speed ahead, dam the deer and other critters. That is what insurance is for to fix the deer crashes or when the huge frost heave hole throughs you into a tree in the ditch.
Our gravel road yesterday looked like it had been carpet bombed. I was doing 20MPH and a couple hundred feet from my drive and got passed on a hill. By the time I got to the top of the hill the passer was a half mile up the road on another hill.
I miss the days where business closed Thursday noon because they were open Saturday till noon. And only a handful of business was open very limited hours on Sunday. When everything went 24-7 the breakdown of the family began and took us down the wormhole we are at today
Yes where I grew up it was Wedsnesdays they closed at lunch. And Sundays only convenience stores and one drug store in town open from 11-3. The 4 rotated which one was open.
I wake up about an hour before sunrise, every morning, no matter what, to the sound of about 30 roosters crowing. After several cups of coffee, and finally light enough to see, I can't stand it any more and go out with a .22. Whereupon they all disappear, like a mist.
It is why I moved out of the metropolis...to get that blessed peace and quiet. In my hood, it is quiet most of the time, at all hours, except if some schmuck is hammering away on some build , or a floatplane buzzes overhead (some well heeled weekend warriors heading to their palace for the weekend).
The odd transient noise is bearable, but a city is nothing more than an symphony of transient noise that never stops.
In a city, one tries to ignore the 'noise', but in the sticks, one listens for any noise.
We don't see many neighbours from October to April - except the kids playing outside - and the whole city is quiet after about 7 pm. We have a downtown camera accessible through the local TV channel so you can see exactly what is happening.
Everyone makes the effort to see friends and family and we have a lot of family activities and a real coffee house setup with lots of music and arts and readings. And then of course every one gets involved in Sourdough Rendezvous which is two weeks of getting together and having winter fun. Love the dog howling competitions, the kids sled racing, hairy legs competition, axe throwing, cancan dancers and the wilderness family competitions.
The place never shuts down in the summer of course with 22 to 24 hours of sunlight.
Our side of the mountain only shuts down at 5 PM between December and March. After we set the clocks ahead for Spring we sometimes sit out until 6 or 630 PM
The little town closest to me pretty much shuts down after 5 too. No businesses stay open past 6 other than one convenience store. There will be kids playing out till dark but other than that very quiet.
I was out at an Amish farm last week., Actually it was an Amish community. I was buying some equipment and got there around sunset, and as the sun went down everything grew dark. Now I live where you can see the stars at night without the glow of the city, but here it was pitch black by 7 pm. The guy who owned the property drug out a generator and wired up his shop so we had a light to see. All around me at a time most people are having dinner I was surrounded by farmhouses that I couldn't see.
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