Google Maps

My friends by now you have become used to me teaching you amazing new things like how to use www.google.com and how to make little pictured when you type but this will blow both of those revelations out of the water.

www.google.com or Google which you can just say has a feature on the internet where they have a map of everything including right where I am right now and let me tell you it is a crazy thing to be sure to suddenly see how far away a place like Australia is but to also see that there are so many other places that are so much closer to me.

The map can show me where I am right now and did you know it looks like there is another farmhouse not even maybe less than a half a day away if I am walking and if I stay hidden in the tall grasses.

Now, I know what you are saying to me now in your head, you are saying "Well Goebbels, if the man and the woman who love you and have raised you are going to eat you at Thanksgiving how do you think another man or woman at another farmhouse will think if you just come strolling up their road? They will think they can eat you and they will not have to eat their own turkey which they are probably trying to fatten up right now as we speak." I know that is what you are saying and I have had the same thoughts.

But maybe that farmhouse is a start.

A start of what I do not know but there are many things that start without knowing what will come next and I think this is one of those things.

Outside this farm

I have been thinking a lot more lately about what is outside this farm and I do not mean places like Australia and Greece but I mean places like the place that Barry went to which must not be so very far, right?

I mean he is a cat and he must have found an okay place to go to if he has not returned, even though he would not return because he is universally disliked and even his old friends the chickens are now amongst the animals who dislike him the most because not only do they now understand how mean he was but they also have the anger of having been fooled by him.

Still, I have been thinking about Barry lately and he has inspired me to learn a little more about what is more immediately outside this farm.

Because as Thanksgiving approached I am becoming increasingly certain about one very important fact: I need to get outside this farm too.

An update for those who are still reading my weblog

I have started coming out of my little hut more because the weather has been extremely warm for this time of year and it has been beautiful to see the colors on the trees changing.

The COA has been successful in my absence and Carmel and Jasmine have really taken on the leadership and they have done an amazing thing and have united the entire farmyard.

Sally has been an ambassador with the chickens as well and has been able to get them to see that maybe not everything happened the way they thought it had with Barry. They were resistant at first but she was determined to break through to them and I think she finally has. She moved back into the chicken coop today and I was feeling lonely so I thought I would pop up here and have a look on the internet and give you all an update.

My cellphone has been dead for so long that I do not even think to use it anymore and it has become buried somewhere in my hut under hay and I could not even find it today before coming here tonight.

Barry has been gone for a long time but there are whispers that he is still out there, in the field, and wants to come back into the farm, but they are whispers only.

I think because of the amazing work that the team has done, even if he did come back I don't think he would have even one animal left who would listen to him or believe anything he had to say.

I cannot take my mind off Thanksgiving and I feel as though a clock is ticking and I am starting to run out of time.

I need to make a plan but every time I try to do that my head gets foggy and I cannot think straight.

My friends in the COA want to help but they do not know how and while we are a farmyard united I am the only one with a weblog and a twitter account and who knows how to work this computer so their ideas stay here on the farm and we have lost that connection with any help from the bigger outside world because I have just not been up to the task.

I do not know where we go from here but I think it starts with me coming out of my hut a little more and appreciating the colors of the trees.

I think maybe that is indeed a first step.

Sad

I have not left my little hut in weeks.

I cannot be the leader this farmyard needs me to be.

Friends, I am sad.