Post Your Simple Pleasures - Those little things that almost make your life worth living

Kalamazoo 2 Timbuktu said:
Do you get snow? My favorite sound in the silence is when it snows.
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No snow.

It gets very hot here though (up to 115F/45C in summer with near zero humidity), and that leads to another simple pleasure: BBQs with the neighbours on hot summer nights. The smell of onions cooking, the sizzling noises of the meat, the consumption of ice cold beer.

And yeah, silence is more of a winter thing than a summer thing where I am.
 
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Pee Cola said:
On a still night, I hear silence. No birds, no other creatures, no wind... nothing but silence.

Looking at the sky on a cloudless night during a new moon, where the complete absence of light pollution means I can walk into my backyard and see all the stars.
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Total opposite from when I lived in a big city.

All one could hear at night there was human activity and endless traffic.

And that sky was brown-tinted with only a handful of the brightest stars.
 
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Husband and I spend every night for about 2 hours before we go to sleep watching a movie or a show. It doesn't matter what it is, we could have seen it a hundred times, we'll watch it again. It just nice in those hours before we got to sleep, the house is quiet, it's dark, we know everyone is safe in bed, the most we hear is just nighttime sounds outside. We talk about our day, or maybe nothing at all, it's not important.

For those few hours, there are no worries, no thinking about bills, or the craziness that is going on now a days, it's just me with my bestfriend enjoying a movie together before we go to sleep.
 
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Not a now thing, more of a 'was,' but having a post-gym cigarette, especially if it was a landmark session or after a competition. Absolute base pleasure that rivals sex with a new girl.

Basically any casually accepted drug after extreme physical exertion.

I remember having a glass of wine in a countryside pub after completing my first 100 mile road cycling ride. The expectation of it basically carried me through the last 10 miles or so. By the time I'd put my bike and gear away in the car, I was salivating. That was like 7 years ago, but I remember the feeling of that first sip like it was meeting God.
 
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Talking to my folks on the phone

They're getting up there in years, and it has finally come home to me that there is a clock ticking. There will come a day when I will want to dial the phone and there will be no one at the other end to pick it up. So I talk to them as often as I can manage, and I save all their voicemail recordings.
 
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  • Soft cat purring in my lap
  • Going for a brisk walk
  • Being in the woods
  • Going for a drive on an empty highway
  • Getting a good workout from doing yard work
  • Noticing my cat following me around, observing me, as I do yard work
  • Rain, especially the sound of hard rain on my roof
  • The loud sound of crickets chirping in unison on a summer night
  • Summer evenings, especially late evening when the sun has just set but there's still some light out
  • Walking on the beach, especially during that time when the sun starts breaking through the clouds and warming up the sand, creating steam. And especially with no shoes on, just at the edge of the tide, so the water washes over my bare feet
  • Seeing a movie in the theater
  • Starting and managing a burn pile of leaves I finally got finished with raking
  • Wild birds singing
  • My mother's venison stew
 
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