Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for February 19, 2021

Puck’s Stand Up Comedy Special will return after these messages.

Oh, Elvis! Pucky is proud of his report. Let him enjoy his moment in the candlelight!

- and Elvis will come around and grumpily turn them off behind you?

I technically have a stockpile of emergency jar candles, but they’re cunningly disguised as bookends. Which did mean that I had a TON of them on hand if needed this week! (And yes, I do also have a lighter. I thought of that.)

Texas should have paid attention. One of the good things about living in a state that faces natural disasters like ice storms and hurricanes is very little fazes us because we are prepared.

The candle reminds me of one of Georgia’s greatest lines ever: “………..to represent the jar of Christmas lights in each of us” Oct 27, 2014 the annual gourd sacrifice has begun

My father’s version was “If you don’t like the weather, wait a minute.”

I once had a Windows course for a few days given by an instructor from Seattle who by way of introduction had written on the first slide his name and “Seattle Rain Festival, 1/1/05-12/31/05.” (It wasn’t an actual slide but I don’t know what to call it, and I’m guessing on the year.)

The candle also reminds me of the candle representing the ghost of Christmas past in Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol. Razzleberry dressing

Candlelight is good, especially jar candles in a pretty candle jar holder. So are flashlights…..the big ones like a lantern are very helpful. My daughter is fortunate that she lives in a neighborhood with buried lines so she doesn’t have power outages. That candle sure is throwing a lot of light. Puck is clearly visible in his pajamas, not like yesterday.My prayers go out to Texans. I hope they recover power soon.

Puck is enjoying the candlelight. But Elvis, there is just as much light on the other side of the candle!

I hear Elvis doing a Frau Blucher imitation…..reverse message of course, but still…..

Finally, the cat-ndle light is there!

Somewhat OT: Update from RL Tommy’s Woman

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Queen Catshepsut the Golden: First, a thank you to Burt-Ra for making the new salt lamps. Second, thanks to Thomios and the Royal Procurers for providing salt for the new lamps.

Alice-Ata: We can’t tell you how honored we are by your kind words.

The Queen: Can’t or won’t? But tell us here, how did you know we would need such a vast supply of salt?

Ta-Natash: Your Majesty, we have noted each year the salt lamps melt during this season. And a few other seasons as well.

Agnes-Ata: We note the dates on the calendar and procure salt from our undisclosed sources.

The Queen: Very well. Now that the Royal Lamplighters have done their thing, let us celebrate by singing the Original Lamp Lighting Song.

All: We are here to celebrate the lighting of the way

The flames within the salt remind us this is a new day,

We travel to Afar and back, the route is all the same,

And all is well until the skies open and it rains!

Another season of rain will come, but we will be prepared,

We know how to meet the challenge, we will not be scared,

Burt knows how to make a lamp, and there’s lots of salt as well,

But where the Mice all get it from we know they’ll never tell!

Elvis the safety monitor. Perhaps Burt should install a back up generator? The station’s still on air, after all.

Hello everyone, 2021 may be harder than last year, right? So, are you eating well? Drinking well? Being healthy? Well I hope all of you are healthy. Keep praying so these crises will stop soon, and our lives will return back to normal. Stay safe, and have a good life!

Hope your kitties and all your pets are healthy!

Can’t hold a candle to Puck’s dedication in reporting.

Two panels of Puck toe beans!

Puck’s smile in frame three is just…Glowing!

Puck is visible again.

Wow, I did not know that New England had too many power outages except when they get blasted by a Nor’Easter or get a hurricane that run up the coast after smashing Florida or the Carolinas like Donna in 1960 which the old timers used to talk about until we got all those storms in 2004.

I can confirm.

What a laff-riot is our puckish correspondent!

Elvis, it’s OK, sweetie. Puck is much more safety conscious than, say, Lupin.

As a New Englander, I can attest to Puck’s correspondence, it is accurate.

Are they in New England?

Texas: “Hurricanes? Yep, all the time. Heat waves? More and more often. Ice storms? Only every 36 years or so. When it happens to you all the time, you prepare for it, otherwise the experience is lost between generations. You don’t prepare for what isn’t happening.” One of my cats was so confused after 10 years of perfect indoor controlled “weather” that she experienced real anxiety. Power’s back, and now so is she. Fun times (not!).

Can confirm.

I grew up in a house with a well and an electric pump. If it looked like a storm was coming, we’d fill the bathtub so we could flush the toilet. My dad would cook some large roast that we could eat cold because the stove was electric. And we’d set up a fire in the fireplace.

Now I live in a house with city water, a gas stove and furnace, but I still think about prepping for a power outage when I hear a storm is on it’s way.

OT: 2 AWSUM things happened yesterday!

Although the average Texan is a smart as anyone else, the people in charge of planning seem to think that “climate change” means “things will only get warmer”.

On the average, things will get warmer but weather is becoming more extreme and extremes are what you have to plan for.

Power outages were frequent during summer high wind storms in far NW Tucson village of Catalina. Local remarks were a worker fell off the Bicycle generator.

I’m sure someone else has already said it, but… Toe beans and Floof patch Combo! Whee!!

@Georgia Dunn. I hope you are feeling better from your scary medical event.

OT: Feral Kitties

Lupin comes out of nowhere batting at the candle.

Move away from the candle and nobody gets hurt.

Went to college in Erie, PA, where the standard saying was that you could experience all 4 seasons in one hour…

Don’t worry, Elvis, he is fine.

For those who don’t get the GoComics newsletter, BCN was featured in their comics for bookworms list:

https://www.gocomics.com/comics/lists/1723009/13-comics-for-bookworks?page=2

Wait, what annual New England winter power outage? I’ve yet to see an annual winter power outage. Or an annual summer power outage, or autumn power outage week for that matter.

Living in New England, I don’t feel so bad right now about our power outages. We up here are kind of prepared for such things cause they happen regularly.

I feel bad for Texans – they have been punched in the stomach, and I wish them a rapid recovery.

Cruz sure got caught with his pants down. If he is smart, he will hang a light on what he did, point to it, tell every one he fouled up, and then tell everyone what he is going to do about it for future occurrences.

I do think Texas should give some thought to rejoining the USA power grid.

Kittens weren’t da bomb!

https://apnews.com/article/police-find-kittens-suspicious-package-249cf082a8bd21619c3ad3b35b759411

So does anybody know what the deal is with Snow Sez? Did the creator die, retire, just plain quit without notice?

I live in the south now but I spent 4 years in North Dakota. I knew what to do and was prepared.

No spring power outage?

The purchase, installation and careful maintenance of a good whole house generator seems to keep the grid from going down.

Being in New Hampshire, I hated the power failures. So because I live in an RV full time, I put solar panels on top. Now if the power is out, I can still have my coffee.

Then I moved to Arizona!

dam, i am glad to live in a neighborhood that has underground powerlines. new england weather is crazy