The Farmyard Five?

Today was an interesting day because while we were getting together for our lunch and learn Jasmine came over to us and asked if she could join us and I looked at Carmel and Carmel nodded and I looked at Petunia and Petunia nodded and I looked at Barry who was licking the fur near his bottom and his head was moving up and down as he did so and I took this as a unanimous decision and I invited Jasmine to sit with us.

We did not discuss many new things because we spent most of the time updating Jasmine on our conversations and she, too, was surprised that the humans eat so many of us and she asked about horses and I told her from my previous learnings that in some parts of the world humans did eat horses but not in the part of the world we are in so she should be safe and just check with me if she wanted to go traveling to other places. lol

But what made today interesting was that after our lunch and learn was finished Jasmine asked me if she could walk with me back to my shack and I said yes and oh boy did the chickens have a field day with that information but I paid them very little attention.

Jasmine let me know that Barry had been asking some of the animals if they thought he was a good leader and if they would like to hear him make a speech and she was not sure what to do with that information but she told him yes that she would like to hear him make a speech but then today when she also learned that I was going to be making a speech and it seemed like I did not know about Barry's speech she thought she should tell me about that previous conversation.

Barry, I know you do not read the weblogs so this is a question more for me to find the answer to than for you to reply. Barry, Barry, Barry... what are you up to?

This Is Us

I have been thinking a lot about my speech and I have been pacing this way and that way and I have been stepping so many steps that, if I do say so myself, I may even be losing a little bit of the weight that I have gained being a lazy turkey through the cold winter months.

The sun is shining today and the biggest thought about my speech is that this speech is for the animals here on this very farm. Today at lunch Petunia said something that keeps replaying in my turkey brain and what she said was this: "If we don't want people to eat us we first need to define who 'us' is."

And I thought this was very smart for several reasons and one of those reasons is that this goes beyond our little Farmyard Four group. I have been reading on google all the kinds of animals that people eat and so many of them are here on the farm and I bet the chickens don't even know how many chickens the humans eat because all they are interested in is the gossip and the latest fashions of the day and I think getting through to them will be the hardest because honestly sometimes I do not even know if they are walking towards me or walking away from me, that is how much they circle around in their little steps.

Barry seemed less enthusiastic about Petunia's comment and he is seeming less enthusiastic about me giving a speech and I think it is because his name for our little group got outvoted but also he is not on the list of animals that humans eat so I think maybe he is having a hard time understanding why this is such an important issue for Petunia, Carmel and myself.

We are trying to help him to understand but he did not say much today at lunch and he was the first to get up and leave after and maybe I should just have a chat with him one on one, turkey to cat, just to check in and see how he is really doing.

Wow

Today I was able to watch the speech called "I Have A Dream" by Martin Luther King Jr. and I watched it with the volume on very low in my shack but I cannot tell you how loud the words were in my ears.

I am not ashamed to say that I even cried a little bit.

That was a speech.

I am putting the finishing touches on my own speech and I think I will be giving it next week here on the farmyard.

I think the animals here on the farm need a voice and I think that voice should be mine and Carmel and Petunia agree and Barry doesn't say he doesn't agree but he also doesn't say that he does but that is three out of the four of the Farmyard Four and so it is enough for the motion to be carried and I have been forward as the speaker.

I am inspired now.

I only hope I can put together my words in such a way as to inspire others.

Twitter world I am back!

I am very happy to announce that the white string has returned and I am charging my cellular telephone as I write this and oh boy does that make me excited.

I also learned tonight how to reset my twitter password here on the new computer so I will be back on twitter and submitting tweets again soon.

I cannot wait to see how all my friends are doing and if you are reading my weblog please know that I have missed you all very much and I have some even more exciting things that are happening to tell you about in the next few days!

Sleep well my friends. I know that once my cellular phone has finished charging, which I am going to shorten to cellphone or cell from now on, I will sleep like a happy turkey as well.

🦃💓

I Have A Dream

I am very much missing my twitter friends and this new computer is taking some getting used to let me tell you but tonight I have read the "I Have A Dream" speech and I think I need to spend some more time on it because there are a number of words I do not understand but I do understand the main message behind the speech and this Mister Martin Luther King Jr. was a very very smart man.

Google keeps telling me to watch the speech but I cannot do so at night because the noise would most certainly wake up the man and the woman so when I can finally charge my cell phone I will find a time when the tractor is loud in the distance and I can watch it in the privacy of my own little shack because apparently it is not only a good speech but one of the best speeches of all time.

I am practicing my thoughts for my own speech and I am not ready to share them here fully yet but I will soon and would love your input when I do.

I hope you are all well. I am going to look up what a score and a creed is and what a New Hampshire is and what they might have done with the old one.

This is all new

My dear friends, the man and the woman have gone and got themselves a new computer and oh boy this evening has been a hard one for this old turkey. My patience has been tested and now I know what they mean when someone says you have the patience of a saint because I have that exactly.

I am lucky that I remembered how to get onto this weblog site but I cannot remember my password for twitter and will need to look at this another time as it is already so late.

And to make matters even worse, the white string that usually sits next to the computer is gone and the cellular phone I use has no more battery and so I cannot charge it without that white string.

If you are a twitter friend I hope you are okay and please know that I am okay and I hope to be able to fix these things soon.

Good night all you beautiful people.

The Old Tree Stump

There is an old tree stump back and behind the barn where you cannot really see it from the farmyard and today I walked over there after our lunch and learn and I hopped my turkey self right up on that stump and I could imagine that some of the animals here on the farm were standing in front of me and I was speaking to them about topics that are near and dear to this old heart and to the hearts of the Farmyard Four and they were nodding and they were agreeing with the things we were saying, things like we don't want to be eaten by people anymore.

Today at lunch we talked about making speeches and what that looks like a d how do you remember what you have to say and I have used google.com a little a bit (and by the way from now on I will shorten that to "google" or "googling" and when I use those terms just remember that I mean going to the website www.google.com and using it to search for my answers) and I learned a few things.

I learned that you can make cue cards to read from although that in itself presents some challenges. The same goes for the type of cards that someone in the back of the audience would hold up for me to read from.

Because I do not think either of those is a practical solution the best advice I found was to keep your ideas simple and organized in a way that you can speak to them naturally and then just memorize the topic headings in the order that you want to speak about them.

So, I am preparing a speech and could use a little help so if anyone out there is a good speech writing person any other tips would be very much appreciated from your old pal Goebbels.

Barry said to use lots of metaphors and none of us wanted to admit that we did not know what that was and when he left first after lunch we all asked each other but no-one knows and I have now googled it and I think I understand what a metaphor is but maybe you can help me know if I am getting it right.

If you are trying to describe something to someone and are having a hard time you can describe something else that is different from the thing you are trying to describe but it may be easier to understand and then the person can better understand your first thing.

An example I saw was that "life is a highway" and, once I googled what a highway was, I understood a little better what the person was maybe trying to communicate. Life is something that you can adopt little parts of and there is a lot of trash on the side of it. Metaphors are easy if you are a smart turkey.

I also googled what the best speech of all time is and it is the speech called "I have a dream" by Martin Luther King Jr. and it is getting late now so I will save reading about that speech for another day.

This turkey friend of yours is getting a few ideas these days let me tell you.

And I think we might actually be able to do something about them.

Forgiveness

Happy Saint Patrick's Day everyone! I understand this is a day where people who are not even Irish get to pretend to be Irish and it reminds me of how I was maybe pretending to be Irish on that dating site and that reminds me of Emma and makes me think of some of the not nice things I maybe thought and said at the end of that connection with her and all I want to say now is Emma, even if it is with bristolboi82, I hope you are well and that you are happy. 

We Are Officially The Farmyard Four

I have really been enjoying meeting with my friends every day for lunch and we had the idea that we should officially name our little group so that way if we are talking to other animals on the farm about some of our ideas they will know that we are an Official Group and yes I have capitalized this on purpose because I think Official Group sounds looks more official. I think it is the same if you capitalize anything because I mean if I were serving you lunch at a restaurant and the menu said the sandwich included cheese or Cheese would you not be more likely to order the Cheese?

Or maybe you would order the cheese anyway because from what I understand everything tastes better with cheese.

So the names we were choosing from were as follows:

The Farmyard Four

The Lunch Bunch

Barry and the Rest

Saints R Us

I will admit that I am sad that not only did Saint R Us not get any votes from my twitter friends but the others also thought it was too... now let me see... I have to google.com the word...

Ostentatious.

So we are not Saints R Us even though I am trying to lead this group towards a life of heroic virtue. Maybe it is too obvious now that I think about it. Maybe I should be more humble.

Barry and the Rest was, you guessed it right my friends, Barry's idea and none of us wanted to be the rest so it was down to Petunia's suggestion of the lunch bunch and Carmel's suggestion of the Farmyard Four. We talked about Petunia's penchant for pig cannibalism and decided that a name with a meal in it was maybe not appropriate given our recent learnings on the subject and so The Farmyard Four it is.

We have some big ideas of what we want to do around here and I cannot wait to share them all with you.

Cannibals

This has been a very disturbing night to the emotions of this turkey let me tell you.

It would seem that humans are in their very biology as I wrote about before wired to eat meat but they are also mostly wired to not eat other humans but every once in a while you have someone named Jeffrey Dahmer come along and he is just the opposite kind of wiring and if you don't know who Jeffrey Dahmer is he sounds scarier than a Dundee in my humble opinion.

I have also learned that animals can be cannibals too so when Petunia said she likes the smell of bacon it does make me question her a little bit but I am choosing to believe that she is a good pig and is not a pig kind of cannibal.

I saw some pictures tonight let me tell you.

I don't even want to write about it if I am being honest and if you want to know more you should go to google.com and type the word cannibal and well there you go. I do want my weblog to be a source of information for people but not that kind of information. I do not want to become known as that turkey's weblog about cannibalism.

That is all I have to say about that tonight my friends as I think I have read enough to give this turkey some nightmares tonight. Be kind to each other and don't eat each other.