The cats are asleep, the neighborhood is quiet except for the bird calls, once a hour or so a car goes past, and all is quiet. There is no exploding artillery, no  low flying helicopters and not even a distant motor sound of a tank. It is so quiet here in the middle of town I wonder why people thought the country was quiet. Though the nearness of the Fort Hood artillery practice range might have had something to do with the noisiness of the old place.

Hubby has a nephew who would ask me how I liked the silence of the country when we moved out there. (He grew up there, but now lives in Waco.) I would explain that I found it noisier than any city I ever lived in because of the army camp. He would shrug it off and say that you get used to it. Well, I got used to the sounds of a city but did not think it was quiet. He did not understand that it was not true quiet if you had army noises that you had to get used to. LOL

It IS nice though to have peace and quiet - except for the trains that go through a couple of times a day that is. When I hear booming noises I can almost be sure it is thunder now and don’t have to run check the radar to see for sure. The cats seems to like it as well. They have settled in to a routine of eating and sleeping with a little wrestling and a few games of wigglebutt thrown in. Wigglebutt is that game cats play when they crouch down and get ready to pounce on something or someone - they have to wiggle their rear ends to get ready. You really are missing something until you see an extremely overweight, large fluffy cat do the wigglebutt like a kitten. Hey, she doesn’t think of herself as old or over weight, she likes herself just the way she is.

Things have calmed down so much for me I was able to get a few things made for the store. Be sure to check them out, tomorrow they will be on sale in the Friday Express for $2. You can click on their images to be taken to their product page in the store.

Oh, hey, I changed the blog theme - the other was just too busy. Whatch think? I will probably find something else soon, but thought this was a nice change.