My Early Years in Catuary

The Big Secret

Monday,

Mews, Dear Human,

Mewma and Pawpa have a secret surprise for me. Pawpa brought the surprise home in the wagon a few days ago, and now it is hiding in his workshop in the barn, and I have been forbidden to go in there. It is a big surprise, almost as big as a horse. But it couldn’t be a horse, because it didn’t move. I have heard pawpa pounding and sanding and working on the surprise all week.

It has been really hard to go to school this week.

Saturday,

Mews, Dear Human,

I got up early this morning, and after a yummy breakfast I started to help mewma clean up in the kitchen. To my surprise, she told me not to worry about the dishes that she would do them. Then she asked me to go and dust the parlor. I thought perhaps we were going to have company. I love to have company. I love it when my Aunties and Uncles and Cousins all come to visit.

I hurried into the parlor and stopped dead in my tracks. There was a piano! It was a beautiful old upright piano, and there was a big sign on it that said, “For Mimeenah, From Pawpa and Mewma.” I ran over and sat down and ran my paws gently over the beautiful ivory keys. Then I played a little song that I made up.

I was so excited! “My very own piano,” I thought. “I have my very own piano!” Mewma and Pawpa were quite happy too. They say I have natural talent. And I am to have piano lessons also. This is so cool. Having a piano is even better than having a horse.

Now Primmy has her garden, Shazon has her horse, and I have my piano.

Purrs, Mim