Sad News and Early Spring Frogs - Binaural Sounds (Patreon)

The other day I had a feeling. I hurried out to the veranda and saw this (photo below).

That's my backyard. It's one of the best things about this old house. This and the fact that the sun sets just beyond those houses over there and that in the spring and summer gajillions of frogs fill the fields and serenade me all night long.Anyway, that little dude is a surveyor. 

So I watched him all day and finally put on my shoes and went to chat him up. My fears realized. All the land this side of his tripod has been sold off and they're going to build a brand new neighborhood. 

I ran next door to tell my little old lady friend (H-san) and she already knew. Of course she did. She owns her house and they had to get her (and my other lady neighbor's) stamp saying they were okay with the new neighborhood being built. We rent, so our landlord stamped his inkan, but we didn't know anything about it. 

Neighbor, H-san, even had a map of the plans that she lent me to scan. Below. I'm the red dot, neighbor on either side, all the green will be new houses. Right now all the green is rice fields and a tiny mikan orchard. Gone. Or soon to be. This has really got me down, but nothing I can do. The only tiny blip of positive is that they haven't cemented over everything yet and the rice farmer who sold the land did till everything like he usually does. So I'm really hoping there will be one more season of rice fields and FROGS! and BUGS! I'm so going to miss those peepers and autumn crickets. 

I'm sleeping with the binaural microphones by my bed now and making good use of my insomnia. 

The other day, I was awake at four am-ish, so I put them out on the verandah and caught early season frog sounds that as the recording goes on turn into morning birds and other sounds. 

So I wanted to share those with you. I took a longer recording this time, so could be used for falling asleep maybe? Study? Relaxing on the sofa? There are some really freaky sounding frogs in there. The sound seems to come from everywhere at once. I plan to record now and again until they start doing construction. Then it's Operation Pompoko. Seriously thinking about it. But until then I'll try and capture sweet nature sounds and post them here for anyone who's interested. Here are couple photos of the fields I just pulled off my phone. 

Spring, weather coming in. 

Summer.

Fall, sunset.

Richard made a cool Japanese meatball recipe with shiso leaves that I think he said he wants to share here. So that'll happen when he gets some time to write it out. I have (good) news about the book, but will save that for another post. Soon. 

I hope everyone is well,

･:*+.\(( °ω° ))/.:+

XO, 

terrie