Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for July 31, 2020

I miss my departed kitty who would tell me in no uncertain terms that it was time for me to be in bed, if I was up and about too late.

Advantage of being deaf, tv sounds won’t keep you up.Disadvantage, your roommate has to slap you awake.

Awe down to the Man, the Woman and the Siamese you cannot please. Who will fall asleep first?

I think Elvis has another new outrage to submit.

I’ve been slapped awake by a cat’s tail. It’s not the worst way to be awakened.

It’s a wonderful bonding moment, until you move…

Are episodes and seasons really episodes and seasons?

Elvis seems to be the only one troubled here.

I think my sweet boy Whiskers thought I was being highly inconsiderate when I would slowly try to move my numb leg while he was sleeping against it.

“I don’t want to go to school, Mom, I’m a cat.”

How did that tactic never occur to me?

Elvis is the protector. Man and woman staying up late extends his work hours.

Lupin has finally fallen asleep leaving Elvis the last cat standing (so to speak) and Very grouchy indeed! Such cute pictures of the kitties and people all snuggled up in bed! Poor Elvis, he just gets in such a dither.

Stretchy Lupin toe beans!

I am currently getting “the stare” – y’all know the one, when you have not followed regular routine and it is well past certain floofballs feeding time. Sammy is very strict about mealtimes and will soon progress to head butts and toe molestation if I continue to ignore him. It’s too hot to go to bed yet so he’s going to have to wait a bit yet

Elvis the dream warrior. He’ll kick you in your dreams… (Or tail whip you.)

Ha! As if you sleep through the night, Elvis. Don’t cha have some sports events coming up?

Love the toes-spread stretch.

Lapin’s dream – the standard “I don’t wanna go to school Mom!” dream with a twist. Next time he’ll be missing final exams!

Toe beans!

Who hasn’t been the recipient of the kind of glare the Woman is getting in panel two?

Lupin fang and BoCC.

Give it up, Elvis, the other three cats are asleep and it’s high time you joined them.

Looks like Lupin is dreaming about eating potato salad, getting a open can of tuna,chasing the Robber Mice or getting his recorder back from Goldie. He looks so happy off in"Dreamland"!

cat shool

I love how happy and safe Goldie looks, cuddled with the Man.

Love the one-eye-open Elvis look.

Our dog heads to bed if we stay up too late.

Everyone is happy, except Elvis.

Lupin is so sweet!

Elvis reminds me of an old 3-Stooges line: “Wake up and go to sleep!”

And I wish I would have used Lupin’s line on my Mom when I didn’t want to go to school.

Like the stories about being in a hospital and being awakened to take your sleeping pill!

Am I the only one who wants to know what they are watching? Or do you all know?

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Elvis-Anum: Tabith-Isis! Quick! I’m out of red ink and I need you to collect red dots right away!

Tabith-Isis: Mew. Can’t it wait until tomorrow, Elvis-Anum? It’s still snooze o’clock.

Elvis-Anum: But a scribe must be ready to write any time of the day or night.

Tabith-Isis: Alright it’s almost 2 am anyway. There must be some red dots around.

Later that night

Tabith-Isis: Oh, hi, Beatrixia. Practicing for the Running of the Cats?

Beatrixia: You bet! Are you competing?

Tabith-Isis: Yes, although I wasn’t planning to have a workout tonight.

Beatrixia: What are you doing?

Tabith-Isis: Collecting some red dots. Elvis needs them right away for some scroll or other.

Beatrixia: Oh, he must be writing down Trevor-Hotep’s hot cacao recipe.

Tabith-Isis: Then I must get these dots to Elvis-A immediately!

At the Library

Tabith-Isis: I got the red dots, Elvis. Elvis?

Elvis-Anum: Zzzzzzzzzzz….

Suuuuure, Elvis, it’s the People that’s really keeping you from going to sleep and not you…

OT: So far, so good…DIL update!

Wake him up and give him a sleeping pill.

Panel 2 = the feline equivalent of The Look. I expect that I will see it this evening, after we abandoned our bosses for ten whole hours, for the first time in four and a half months.

Today is:

National Avogadro’s Day, or 6.02214076 × 10 to the 23rd power. It was discovered by Amedeo Avogadro, who was obsessed with moles. If this quantity isn’t a Metric Bonkers Worth, I don’t know what is.

What?! Oh, my mistake. It is Avocado Day. Have some guacaMOLE. Avocado’s number is the number of moles in a guacamole.

National Jump for Jellybeans Day. Why anyone would jump for them I can’t figure out. The jellybean bush is a lowly shrub.

National Raspberry Cake Day. I certainly prefer raspberry cake to strawberry short cake, but I’m odd that way, not very fond of strawberries. One can even say that I give them a raspberry …

National Mutt Day, honoring the most American of dog breeds. This country is supposed to be a melting pot, not a settling tank!

System Administrator Appreciation Day. Buy a computer nerd a bit of Jolt Cola™ and byte of Oreos™ for helping you get plugged … in that is.

Uncommon Instrument Awareness Day. Anyone up for a performance by the National Bagpipe, Kazoo, Jaw-harp, Theramin, and Sackbutt Marching Band?

Shredded Wheat Day: After that Metric Bonkers Worth of guacamole and raspberry cake, we should have a healthy meal. Our family commonly refers to the large shredded wheat biscuits as “hay bales.” Moo.

That’s what you get for Talking in an Elevator Day.

Awww! So it’s not only Elvis who dreams about people school.

You should be ashamed, People!

Those toes!

We used to have a bedtime routine for our cats. They had “their room” in the cellar, and we’d put them down there at 8:00 every night. (because when we didn’t Finder smashed a glass plate, cut his paw, and bled all over the house.) Even though the door was open all day and Alias could go down there anytime she wanted, at 8 PM she’d headbutt us, meow, and go back and forth from the cellar door until we told her “Bedtime, Alias! Good girl. Night night.” Then both cats would go downstairs (with Finder giving Alias dirty looks and Alias making sure that we shut the door.)

Cat school is important.

Ah the irony. The 2 AM obstacle race is perfectly fine, though it keeps the People up. But let them stay up and it’s a problem. Well, look and Goldie and Puck, put like two little lights while Lupin is just falling asleep. Time to get over it, Elvis.

Had a little difficulty going to sleep last night. Had DC decide he was going to come into my room as I was getting ready to climb in bed. So I had to chase him out of the room and go back to getting ready only to have him come in again. He usually waits until the lights are out and he figures I’m asleep before he comes in and curls up on the floor. But last night I guess he was particularly needy.

My fault, I hit the head and just had to give all three cats a good rub on my way back to the bedroom. Guess DC needed a little more.

Now you know what it’s like!!

#dailyhugzforladykat

While I have had fur babies who have tried to convince me to go to bed, they are always much more adamant about my waking up when they want me to.

Love the fangs!

They’re either warching Naruto or The Simpsons, both of those have basically infinite seasons.