Sounds

While I was doing some of my chores today on the highest part of the hill behind Casa Arriba I kept hearing a very loud car alarm.  It was a piercing sound, and very annoying as most of you know.  Then it dawned on me, "There are no cars here!  This place is not accessible by car!"  The noise I heard was some kind of bug.  Probably a beetle of some kind... who knows?  Now I am safe within my mosquito netting preparing to turn the light out and go to sleep.  The crickets and whatever else are chirping away.  I don't hear the frogs tonight...  Today was uneventful really.  I stayed home and worked on the landscape, made supper for myself, and this evening sat in the sala and watched the cats try to catch the dragon flies that seem to appear at dusk.  I can hear the waves breaking against the rocks and the beach down below... there is distant polka-style music playing at the cantina, I can hear a dog bark every once in awhile, and an occasional mango will fall from the tree and hit the ground with a hard "Thud".  It sounds like a baseball falling from the sky and hitting the ground.  It's Sunday, and it was relatively quiet all day.  I am thankful for this opportunity, and I am so grateful to my friends who made it all happen.