Mooooo….

We slept with a window open in our bedroom last night … love this cool fall weather!!  When I went to bed around midnight, I settled in with my crossword puzzle book expecting to enjoy the quiet of the evening when I became instantly aware of a distant mooing…like from cows.  And these weren’t happy cows.  They were going on and on with their moos like it was some sort of orchestrated effect to get attention.

The odd thing is, I can’t figure out who around here has cows.  Our four nearest neighbors are each 1/2 mile away and none of them have cows so it had to be coming from further away.  But what kind of cow can you hear from over a mile away?!?!  And seriously, they went on and on.  And they’re still mooing.  I can still hear them.  It’s just bizarre that we’ve lived here for 5 years and I’ve never heard the bovine chorus before.

Although, last fall some cows escaped from somewhere and were found ambling around in the fields outside our house.  I wonder if it happened again?  It would explain their constant mooing.  If I could decipher cow talk, I would think that they were saying “OMG, we’re lost. Where the F*** are we?  And where is that guy who brings us food?!?!”

I shall be on the lookout for stray cows today.  Ahh…the perils of country life.