a few minutes ago, i left food out for the night for the animals. as i’m brushing bagel’s teeth with the ravens facing the browns on monday night football, i get up to look from my window and of course the fat orange cat is there nibbling. he’s always first on the scene. i think he stays around the house and heads to the food when he sees me put it out. thinking i didn’t want him to eat it all, i opened my window and clicked my teeth. he stopped eating dead in his tracks and looked me in my eye. i muted the television to try to tell him to leave some food for the opossum. as i am doing this, i hear foot steps in the wet/frost grass. out of the dark from the right side of the yard comes the opossum! he walks all the way to the left side of the yard, then down. he approaches the cat hesitantly, and the cat moves. then he begins eating and drinking water. it made my soul happy lol. i still wonder about the smaller opossum i see him with from time, and i hope it wasn’t the same one i saw on btg and i’s afternoon walk yesterday. when he finished eating, i went back to brushing btg’s teeth and watching the end of a helluva monday night football match up. good end to the night, now i’m about to pass out.
hood night!
-ratha, 11:55pm, 12.14.20