There is something about a mobile home that I never thought about until I bought one of my own.

The weather and the outdoors are a lot closer than a traditional stick built home. You can hear the rain and the wind and the crickets at night. You can hear people talking outside sometimes, and you can hear the UPS truck pull up, or for that matter, anyone that pulls up.

But what I love most is a night rain.

When the house is super quiet and you are half asleep and gently you hear the sound of raindrops on the air conditioner shell… then on the roof. And the sound of the crickets gets silent as the rain falls harder. A light rain is nice, and a good thunder storm is fantastic. Always wakes me up and I don’t mind at all.

It reminds me of sleeping in a tent, somewhat… it’s not exactly the same, but it brings those feelings back.

I remember the first big storm that I weathered in the moby… it was almost deafening and just a little scary. At first I didn’t know what was going on! Honest! I woke and I thought I felt the moby move, and it was just a little. The winds were so strong and the rain so hard, I think she was settling just a bit. We have super strong piered tie down straps and she’s stayed put for 30 years so I don’t think she’s going anywhere, at least not in a thunderstorm. Still… I remember laying there, wide awake and thinking “oh my gosh” this is TOO weird.

But now, heck, now, I live for these nights. And of course, now I’m wide awake and it’s 3:30 in the morning and the rain has stopped. The little frogs are croaking and the crickets are back to singing. And there is a train whistle way off in the background and I can even hear the sound of the wheels on the tracks. Pretty cool.

Well, I better try and get back to sleep. I get to drive Jessy to college tomorrow morning and then pick her back up later on. And I have to take the van in to get the window fixed and HOPEFULLY see my baby Taurus in the shop and take some decent photos of her. She got towed to the shop and they are going to start taking the trans apart this week. I am crossing my fingers and hoping that it’s just something simple… one of those “ahah!!!!” moments and it’s a $87 dollar part that needs to be replaced and it’s perfect!!! That would be something, wouldn’t it?

You just never know. So yeah, I need to get back to sleep. Typing blog posts in the dark is not a good way to do that, so I must say “good night” …..