More Sounds of Woodsdale

In my piece about the sounds of our neighborhood, I missed a few. One of my favorites was the sound of chains on tires rolling down our snow-covered street in winter....that was so musical. Summer brought the sound of locusts which could drowned out even a conversation on the porch. Another favorite was the call of "Allee, allee oxen free" from the kids playing tag or hide and go seek. Rakes gathering up leaves in their teeth was a good sound....power mowers??? no such thing it was a push mower usually attached to a teenager. Two sounds that bring back memories are the squeak of a grocery cart being pushed around a supermarket and the slamming of a screen door. There are also sounds you don't hear anymore like the flutter of a playing card attached to the wheel of a bike or even a "bike bell" warning people that you were coming. I guess if I had to choose my all time favorite summer sound it would be the crunching of the ice as the churn on the back porch produced the most delicious ice cream in the world.