Wind chimes: Yay or Nay?

LoneWolfSparty wrote:1 demerit for a yay or nay thread with no poll voting!

tGreenway I know we are all used to the lame 247, but come on man!

goodbar wrote:Wind chimes are awesome for bb gun practice.

-12 year old goodbar

tGreenWay wrote:

I'm on mobile.

LoneWolfSparty wrote:

Then you are forgiven.

tGreenWay wrote:My elderly neighbor has had some god-awful wind chimes in her backyard for years. They sounded turrible--like a bunch of cut up old license plates clanking together non-stop night and day.
Recently, she got new chimes, and these are much bigger and far better sounding. I wasn't happy when I first saw them, but they're a deep, resonant, melodious chorus of tones, and they're not too bad at all.
Until now, I've been extremely anti-chimes, but these are kind of relaxing to listen to when I'm in the backyard cleaning up pieces of squirrel and mourning dove carcass and skin left by the hawk that just had a meal.
What say you?  Please chime in.  

Turtleneck wrote:

Does she also have a large stick in her backyard?

Giant Moose wrote:Pics of elderly neighbor?

tGreenWay wrote:

 I've been waiting for that one.  She's about 80. Imagine a female cryptkeeper.  

goodbar wrote:

O.k.....go on.....

ancientspartan wrote:Wind chimes = noise pollution.

Floyd Robertson wrote:You might want to put them away for the next 12 hours or so if you're in SE Michigan.

Floyd Robertson wrote:You might want to put them away for the next 12 hours or so if you're in SE Michigan.

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