the barn cat

today was a big day because not only did you meet my friend who is going to put me in a book but today i think i made a new real live friend here on the farm.

the barn cat walked past my doorway this afternoon and let me tell you he has never ever done this before not in the history of time that i can remember anyway. and when we walked past he looked at me and he smiled at me.

i thought two things at the same time and, well, i suppose one of them came first but they came so close together it is almost as if they happened at the same time. is your brain able to do that/ am i a special turkey/

well the first thing was that i have made many cat friends on twitter and maybe i am putting out an 'i like cats' kind of vibe that he was picking up on because i have heard that cats are very sensitive to such thing.

the second thought i had, or maybe it was the first, was that he knows something i do not and has a secret to hold over me and i became very worried. but as he passed the door i said to myself, goebbels, i said, what do you have to be worried about/ the barn cat is not out to get you.

but still i was not entirely good at convincing myself of the truth behind this.

then later the barn cat did something he especially has never done before. he came back1

and he came into my shack1

and i said to him i said ' hello mister barn cat and what may i do for you on this fine afternoon/' and i definitely did not hysterically yell into his face a bunch of words he did not understand and flap my wings because that would be rude, right/ no i definitely did not do that. i said the nice words that i just said that i said and do you know what he did/ he left in a big hurry.

maybe he is allergic to politeness and proper behavior/

anyway it was a surprise to me and i hope he comes back tomorrow because i would like another chance to try my politeness on him again because maybe i didn't get it exactly perfect today.