Chilly Rice Field Frogs and Buzzy Bugs (Binaural Pomodoro) (Patreon)

Hello, All (๑╹ω╹๑ ) !

I got some big (to me) personal news🙌.

I'm an auntie! A crow auntie! The mating pair just introduced me to their ✨babies✨Okay, not babies, but this is the first time I've seen them out of the nest. They're very young and silly. I'll do a separate post because I got some videos I want to post, too. So cute!

But before that, I keep waking up at two or two thirty every day. It's so exhausting. I've stopped doomscrolling news and have started either reading a good book or working on writing (I think I've got a good solid start on the middle grade book I'm working on-Yay!). Then the other night I grabbed the mics and put them out on the veranda.

It just happened to be a cool night so the frogs weren't super genki, more laid back and sporadic. But that's a neat vibe, too. So I asked Richard to cut out a 20-minute section that sounded good as well as do his magic to make it sound even better (take out the random car driving by at that hour, etc.) and that's what this post is about.The attached mp3 is from the rice fields behind my house. They were just plowed and flooded two weeks ago, then planted last week. This is a photo from a year or so ago. It looks like he's not going to plant the three you see closest to me. The dirt part is owned by someone else and stays dirt or weeds all year long. Anyway, the farmer is getting older and is looking to sell the land. He tried to sell it last year to build a bunch of houses, but my neighbors (thank you, neighbors!) lost their shit about it. It's so lovely to have the fields. No one wants a new neighborhood especially when there are so many houses everywhere that are sitting empty. So he backed off...for now.

I hope the chilly rice field frogs and buzzy spring insects bring you some peace and maybe a little sleep. I'll record again once they really warm up and get more excited about finding 'friends'.

XO,

t