The sounds of summer... if you summer in Vineyard Haven. Thunder, rain, waves, gulls, hail, and steamship (ferry) traffic. Recorded last June, you will hear as one storm departs and another quickly approaches. And deluge awaits you in the middle.

Off topic... Have you ever seen Point of No Return? Bridget Fonda stars as a troubled assassin who goes headfirst down a kitchen dumbwaiter to escape a missile. I realize it's a movie, and Fonda plays a badass... like obviously, the bad guys need to carry absurd weapons. But who would think to take a ***** missile launcher into a fancy restaurant?

Snowfall and mild traffic sounds — this is two hours of falling snow and mild traffic... but who gives a **** about that? I want to use this space to campaign for a dish washing simulator for the Nintendo. I want ****** stacks of dirty dishes that I have to figure out how to Tetris into a small dishwasher.

Rainy Hotel Ambience — Have you ever wandered down a long, narrow hallway following the loud hum of an ice maker? The small room in a hotel that houses free ice and expensive snacks — $5 Doritos is a thing, y'all.

You walk into a hum that vibrates throughout your body as you hold out your tiny ice bucket with the mini-trashbag to catch the tumbling cubes. Those ice buckets are too small.

This is the shower being recorded from the room next door. There will be tinkles of water, bathroom fan, and gurgling drain on the other side of the wall. Essentially layered gray-ish noise.

Reach out and touch fare (har) — ehem, this is from a recording of the Silver Line. It was a cold, icy January evening, and I was heading downtown to see a comic book movie.

Strap in for two and a half hours of Subway. There will be stops every 15 minutes. And no need to worry about Ra's al Ghul.

Car defrost ambience — It's the kind of cold out there that freezes your nostrils together as you breathe in. And ice and snow are covering the windshield.

It's time to begin the clearing process — and don't be like a neighbor who just cleared a peephole in his giant truck windshield and then took off for work.

Defrosting takes time and patience.

Falling snow and wind soundscape — recorded on the evening of the 14th. The beginning flakes were sloppy, and they came down in clumps. We got three inches.

And then, on Monday, it got sunny, and the roads cleared up. Still, the county closed school on Tuesday and Wednesday. So I had to spend another weekend with my ****** children.

Moderate rainfall on a parked car. I don't know what else to say as a description. Oh! I found Winter Spiced Cranberry Sprite at the Annandale CVS! They had a bunch left if any of y'all wanted to grab some. And I met up with a friend I haven't seen since covid lockdowns. We went to a glammed-up taco spot in Alexandria. That was great. Anyway, that was my Saturday.

Rain and ice ambience — This is what the worst snow day ever sounds like. The kids were hoping for measurable snow, and they got a lot of rain and graupel.

I'm unsure if what is falling in this recording counts as graupel, but I like saying graupel. My grandmother would call any sky ice that she didn't deem snow, "graupel." And she would wave her hand while she did it like "**** this sleet."

Waves, boats, birds and more. This recording begins late at night and ends with the first ferry steaming in and out of Vineyard Haven Harbor. This is a recording from outside the Vineyard Harbor Motel from the summer and captures waves, birds, a giant yacht mildly humming nearby, light traffic from Beach Rd and other chill mechanical sounds. Great soundtrack for a post-holiday hangover... I'm tired now.