The wind chimes in the gazebo
There are four remaining areas in the house that are quite unfinished. Structurally, they are complete but they still need to be furnished to be functional. One of these areas is my study/office but it’ll be fully furnished by the middle of the month. Honestly, it should have been a priority considering the amount of time I spend there working.
The second area is the family room. The day I took the photos for the How to eat a sandwich with style entry, I also took these photos of the family room (that was the week when both Sam and Alex were down with a flu-like infection). We really don’t call it “family room”; we call it the Blue Room because of the blue walls, blue door and blue blinds.
It is a bedroom converted to a TV room and storage area of sorts. There are no furniture — there is only an old mattress on the floor where we sit or lie on when we watch TV. The closets are full of DVDs, VCDs and audio CDs, the TV stand has a collapsed cardboard beneath it to protect the parquet flooring. The boxes contain photo albums which has since been transferred to the closets.
The third unfinished area is the lanai. It has a trellis and Sam wants to plant sampaguita that will climb up the trellis and provide shade over the lanai. The sweet smell of the sampaguita flowers permeating the house isn’t a bad idea either.
The fourth is the garden. It just isn’t the best time to fix the garden with the unpredictable rains. After the Christmas season and before the summer would be the best time to plant, replant and do something about the bald spots where the grass hasn’t grown yet. In the garden is a gazebo which I’d really like to furnish with a few pieces of all-weather furniture. Meanwhile, until we get a full size crate, it is Astro’s shelter. Ergo, the only things we can put in there are things that Astro cannot reach and tear to pieces. Like wind chimes.
We love wind chimes. Every house we lived in, we had wind chimes. The soothing sounds they make, inharmonic as they may be, are music to my soul. Some people think they are nothing but sources of noise pollution. I say drunken karaoke singing and tricycles are the true sources of noise pollution. Just last night, karaoke singing coming from another side of the hill filtered into the house and I remarked why some people see fit to sing the pasyon when Lent is months and months away.
Anyway, so Speedy has been buying wind chimes. His current Aladdin’s cave are the shops along Dapitan Street in Manila where locally-made crafts are sold at prices much lower than those in malls and tourist areas. That was where he bought the wind chimes made with capiz in the photo above and the chimes made with seashells in the photo below.
Those were his most recent buys. Before that, he bought this piece made with bamboo…
… and this classic piece with metal tubes.
What other pieces he will find, I know he will buy so long as the price is right. I jokingly told him once that I wanted something like the huge wind chimes in the movie Twister. Of course, we don’t have the space for something as large as that but it’s a thought, you know? It’s such a unique design that I was impelled to find out who conceived it. Turns out it isn’t just some so-so piece of film set. It was designed by a sculptor named Evan Lewis. No wonder it was unique.
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I also love wind chimes. We have one hung by the main door, just like the one shown here in the last pic. Our house is only a few hundred meters away from the beach, so sometimes it gets really windy in the afternoon when I’m usually alone at home. I just love it when the silence is broken by the occasional sound of the wind chimes. So peaceful, and yes, as you said, very soothing.
I was shocked that someone called them sources of noise pollution.
Ooh, I love your chimes made with seashells.
Re: noise pollution — They are not allowed in our subdivision. Mga amerikano talaga — super OA!!! Maingay daw
And to think the houses are far enough from each other that they’d never be able to hear them. Hmmph!
When I lived in Hawaii there was sampugita planted by the outside window so everyday was perfumed with that lovely scent.
Purplegirl daming OA ng mga filipino dito sa subdivision ko din!
Purplegirl, Sus! OA nga. Sobra. So chirping birds are banned too? LOL We have them here and I love the sounds they make. The crickets too!
Miguk, strange as it is, we’re having a hard time finding potted sampaguita that we can replant in the lanai. And to think it’s the national flower. Goodness, mums are everywhere but sampaguita is a hard thing to find. And P.S., wow, you’re getting good with your Filipino eh.
hahaha it is carabao tagalog lang
purplegirl, tell your American neighbors to go back to the States where more wind chimes are waiting for them. One of our American neighbors have the metal chimes. I hear it everytime I go out our backyard. Ours is made out of bamboo and its near the front entrance. I can hear it from the inside even with all the windows and door closed. And our American friends love them.
Miguk, okay lang yun. You know, I think that a person who makes an effort to learn the language of his adopted country is someone who means to really share the lives of its people. Until one speaks the language of the people, a foreigner is a stranger.
JMonreal, purplegirl lives in the States.
Sassy, I can speak much better than I can write. Those are two different skills. Concur with your analysis but no matter what, in most countries even if you can speak the language, you are always going to be a foreigner — an outsider
I love wind chimes, too. My Mom has lots back home, and I have four of them here. (We gave away wind chimes during my wedding.)
The noise-sensitive Swiss neighbors in our apartment building think that our big wind chime, which we placed by our main door, is a source of noise pollution. So I had to remove it. Mamamatay ka sa katahimikan dito (LOL).
Suffice it to say they (neighbors) didn’t like it when I sang ABBA songs in our living room, using my Magic Mic (LOL).
I like your new home, Connie.
Purplegirl, did you check your homeowner’s association by-laws? Make sure what they are telling you is in writing.
Jayred, pucha, I love peace and quiet but not dead silence. And speaking of ABBA, I hope you’ve seen Mamma Mia! Pierce Brosnan’s a lousy singer but the music is still wonderful!
We have wind chimes in our Veranda, and I love the cool, relaxing sound they produce. Love It!
oh madam connie, im just a new fan of yours and i find the fonts on the photos very cute! would you mind telling me the fonts name? hehehe! coz im planning to make a birthday card for my daughter and i want to use these cute fonts. Thanks!
The font in the collage is Giddyup Std, Edgar.