The sounds of summer are happy ones - kids playing cheerfully (please note that a curmudgeon actually used the words "kids" and "cheerfully" in the same sentence - a VERY rare thing), birds singing, crickets cricketing, etc., etc.
In genteel neighborhoods, such as my own, there was also the happy chicka-chicka sound of sprinkler heads in all the in-ground lawn watering systems. Another comforting summer sound.
Alas, no more. Turns out, worm drive sprinkler heads are much more reliable. Sadly, they are also silent. So the cheerful chicka-chicka sound has slowly disappeared as those sprinkler heads expired and were replaced by the silent ones. I should know - it happened to me. I held out as long as I could, but one by one, the old impact heads wore themselves out.
Now all I hear are the damn kids.
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