Years ago I made some with the 2 liter cola bottle. I put them in the garden and they made a moaning sound. We had lots of fun with that. It really spooked the dogs. They were not fancy looking but pretty funny/ Enjoy!! Jlily

I'll cast my vote for them also! I have several in my garden, but because of its small size and the amount of enclosure they don't get very much wind so I only hear them occasionally. I have one that is quite tiny and makes the most beautiful sounds.....I have that one on my porch so I CAN hear it when it catches the breeze. My sister has a very Asian style garden and although she doesn't follow Feng Shui in the strictest sense, she has a bamboo wind chime that makes the most amazing, deep mellow sound! When I was growing up my mom had one of those little glass wind chimes you could find at the Oriental import stores hanging in the patio outside my bedroom window. I used to fall asleep listening to it. One night, she, my older brother and I went to see a movie....'Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte' with Bette Davis. If you remember, this was a pretty scary movie and I was at a very impressionable age. Anyway, there was one of those same wind chimes in the movie and it would always be tinkling when something terrifying was about to happen. Of course when we got home and I was getting settled for the night, my brother had to go mess with our wind chime to give me a huge scare!! Hearing one of those to this day....decades later.....still makes me shiver. Like scents, I think certain sounds can be very evocative and they can most definitely trigger memories!!

You did it!!! You did it!!! Oh, Caroline, I am so happy for you. And tremendously impressed too, not only by the physical difficulty of the trip, but by your dedication to a good cause. What an amazing thing you did. I can hardly wait to see your photos. Welcome back! Now you can sit back and watch the Giro d'Italia starting on Saturday. (Universal Sports, on TV & online) You'll have new appreciation for the pros putting in over a hundred miles a day in mountainous terrain LOL! Wow, you are one tough cookie...

I wanted to thank all who were involved in the DAT threads and especially Marcolo. I am planning on building a home from a kit home plan in a few years. One I love is a 1924 William Radford bungalow, but we will probably end up with a story and a half bungalow to get a few more bedrooms. I have been researching these old plans like crazy, and they are amazing. I have found a couple with a more 'modern' layout. When I say modern the kitchen only has two doorways (from DR and outside) instead of the four or five I sometimes see here. Marcolo said something in the Victorian DAT thread and again to Lavender_Lass which is where I originally saw it and then linked back. I was trying to figure out how 'authentic' I should go with the house. That comment was (I am paraphrasing) "I like the idea of seeing a vintage kitchen developing over time. It should represent every decade that it has passed." It made complete sense to me, and it is exactly what I want. I love history (I have an MLS and was waiting for a permenant position at the National Archives when the crappy economy hit, and I decided to be a SAHM). Marcolo had also said (and I do believe this was from the DAT threads as well) "Do not just assume the trends and materials used at the time. Actually do the research for yourself." I know it seems obvious now, and especially since I'm still a professional researcher. It took reading that however to think about our next home in a completely different way. I am now creating a back story for our yet to be built home to create a sense of history and to help determine the finishes. Every detail will be planned before we build because everything will be a piece of a puzzle. I hope to share the back story as well as the home when we are able to build. I do hope more people read the DAT threads because they are awesome. I learned a lot and have saved all of them for reference. I came late to GW to participate in those the first time around, but the collective knowledge and creativity in those threads are amazing. Thank you again everyone for putting in some extra time for those exercises. I have learned a great deal.