Kitty, kitty?

After meeting at the cafe John was following me home, about 1 minute behind me because he stopped at the other house to check for UPS packages. He arrived to find the garage door hanging open and me wandering around in the dark near the driveway waving my iphone light ineffectively where my headlights had been, saying, “Kitty, kitty? Kitty, kitty, kitty?” He asked, “What are you doing?”

I said, “I just saw the biggest black cat I’ve ever seen, sitting on a rock out there. And I know it wasn’t a dog. It had cat’s eyes and it just sat there like a cat. But it was huge.” So we made a joke about panthers. And later he said, “You probably saw a small bear.” And I’m like, no way. I’d mistake a bear for a cat on a rock?

But we do have a lot of bear, of all sizes, and today on Nextdoor.com, someone posted about there being a bear around last night. That might have been a little bit more of a kitty than I was prepared for.

PS. Laura – great phrase card – mistaking a bear for a cat on a rock!