A Few of My Favorite Things: Sounds

• The slap of a wooden screen door slamming shut, (preceded by the high pitched screee of the spring)
• An oscillating fan as it makes it's rounds
• The crunch of a gravel driveway under a car's tires
• The sound of a glass bottle being opened followed by the cap bouncing across the counter
• The roar and rythym of a freight train passing
• A lamp being turned on or off
• An oar moving through the water
• The beating wings of an otherwise silent bird, startled in the woods
• A coffee pot sucking up the last of the water as it brews coffee
  
• A lone hockey player's ice skates on the ice in an empty arena
• The sound a dishwasher makes when the water hits the front panel during the wash cycle and also the sound it makes when it switches cycles and begins draining the water into the sink
  
• The cry of seagulls
  
• The sound of the lever on the gas tank being flipped followed by the sound of the nozzle as it is inserted into your gas tank (especially satisfying when heard from inside the car on an exceptionally cold night)
  
• A church bell announcing the hour
  
• The sound of the oven door being opened and something being placed on the rack (especially when heard in surprise from another part of the house)
• The deep concussive bass of heavy surf pounding the beach
• An old wooden floor creaking as you walk or shift your weight
• A match being struck
  
• A canoe running up onto a gravel beach
• Zippers on a backpack being compulsively zipped opened and shut in the pre dawn darkness before a hike or an airline flight (this noise quietly announces, "despite the darkness, and my inability to speak this early in the morning, nothing has been overlooked or forgotten, ...we will succeed")
• The barely audible tisk tisk sound that falling snow makes when it hits your jacket