11 November

Minnie Emerging

by Jon Katz
Minnie Emerging

Minnie is expanding her territory. She sleeps on hay bales in the barn (Maria, I suspect, has made a bed for her somewhere there with blankets and sheepskin) and has made her daytime headquarters the rocking chair on the back porch, which gets the best afternoon sun. In the morning she roams the pastures, hanging out with the donkeys, who she loves, and the chickens.  She has become a presence on the farm, which she was not really at the other farm. We have heard nothing from or about Mother (she is not at the other farm. We are increasingly certain she was taken by a predator.

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