Plop... plop.... rumble... roll....

Those are now the sounds we hear when the pecans drop from the trees and fall on the new metal roof of the gazebo.

First you will hear that plop sound when the pecan first thuds onto that roof. Then, as it rolls down the copper metal, you can distinctly hear a rummmble sound as it rolls towards the edge.  When the pecan goes into a free-fall from the edge of the roof line, and if it's very quiet outside (which it usually is) you can actually hear the pecan as it lands on the grass.

I'm surprised that an army of squirrels haven't arrived in our yard en masse, being that the pecan sounds are now signalling the bounty of fresh nuts that surrounds that gazebo.