The weather we're having this weekend is a repeat of spring break's weather.  Rain, snow, sun, or hail.  The last two days I counted four hailstorms, and this picture was taken just about two hours ago.  Right now it's sunny.  You just never know!  Simon and I got caught in one hailstorm walking around in downtown Salem, but we didn't mind at all.  I even thought that I heard the crunch of the stones as I was stepping on them before the traffic rushed by.  Today I went outside during today's hailstorm as I wanted to see, feel and listen to it.  I noticed that hail sounds different than rain--it has a crispier sound I guess would be a good way to describe it.

Between spring break and this weekend, we did have some gorgeous warm sunny weather that reached up to 80 degrees!   I was outside a lot during those days and had fun listening to the birds also enjoying the beautiful weather.  My dad told me one time that some people can hear a bird and know what kind it is by the way it sounds.  I've always been intrigued by that.  Well I noticed what sounded to me different kinds of bird sounds, and I'm not talking about the annoying crow sounds either.  I know that I have a crazy imagination, but at one point, I was thinking that I heard three different birds having a conversation with one bird having a higher pitch so I'm assuming that one was a female.  I was imagining that all three birds were the same species, but that one male had a slightly different tempo.  Crazy, huh?

The sounds you hear when playing Wii sports are so realistic!  (For those of you who don't know what a Wii is, it's a game console that you can play video games on.)   I really enjoy playing the Wii sports games because you actually move similar to how you would move playing the real games.  For example in Wii tennis, while serving, you swing the remote up in the air and move it forward to "hit" the ball.  My favorites are bowling and tennis.   In bowling, you actually hear the ball hit the pins just like it's really happening.  You also hear the "crowd of people" especially when you get a strike!  In tennis you actually hear the ball go through the air!  I'm not a fan of playing the other "normal" video games, but I'm amazed on how much detail I can hear while the boys are playing them and how I can hear them from another room.

As you can see, I've been paying a lot of attention to the sounds in my environment.

I enjoyed reading your description of the "bird conversations", the sound of hail, etc. It's amazing how we "hearing folk" tend to take such things for granted. I have a birdfeeder right outside my dining room window and have listening to the spring sounds of a beautiful variety of birds for the past couple of weeks. It's "music to my ears"!

So glad to hear you continue to improve. Sounds like you're doing a lot of creative things and interesting things to keep the drudgery away.

Blessings! :)