Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for September 28, 2021

Do you really think Beatrix doesn’t know what’s going on?

Ooh, we may indeed be headed for Natasha and Violet’s story! Can’t wait! (And I wonder if mice count in the “one, two, many, lots” of Discworld’s trolls or the "one, two, three, four, hrair " of the Watership Down rabbits?)

How kind of Natasha and Alice to want to help make it easier for the woman to lift the apple bucket.

Natasha and Alice, two of the most enterprising mice ever! Apple out…..Apple back in!

The weather is cooling off, so it’s “apple-stealin’ time!”

Mouse-sized oven, bottle caps for pie tins … I wonder how many pies can they make from one apple?

This does remind me of a story (probably true) of a group of four or five Marines who, many years ago, visited a nearby Army post late one night to . . . appropriate . . . some unused lumber that they needed for a building project. They had just started loading it on their truck when one of the sentries came by accompanied by the Officer of the Day. The Marine sergeant in charge of the . . . appropriation mission . . . quickly told his men to start unloading the wood back onto the pile. The OOD (a lieutenant, I assume) demanded to know what they thought they were doing. The Marine sergeant replied that they had been told to unload this wood at this location. “Oh no you don’t, not on my post, you’re not!” replied the OOD, “You get this stuff back on your truck right now!” “But sir, our lieutenant said to . . .” the sergeant tried to protest, but the OOD cut him off, “Nothing doing! If he thinks he can get away with dumping his trash on this post, he’s got another thing coming. Now, you men get every bit of this wood back on your truck and get off of my post!”

So, they loaded up the entire pile of lumber under the watchful eye of the sentry and the OOD and were escorted off of the base.

It could be a true story. There are some young lieutenants who are eager and naive enough to accompany a sentry late at night.

Funny that they would treat Beatrix as “The man.”

The Mice are helping… their own consciences.

Aw, let them have an apple.

Ha! The robber mice are caught out.

Why? Asked the kitten, Why would you sample, those apples? Oh, those little Robber Mice were clever and slick! They made up a lie, and they made it up quick!

Robber mice at work! They look like excellent interview candidates (ﾐゝᆽ╹ﾐ)

Well, well! An apple a day doesn’t keep the Cat News away!…

Oh no. Those mangy mice is contaminating those apples with the plague. Shooo! Go aways, ya vermin!

This is no time for pleasantries, Beatrix. You has done a great job caught em crooked criminals red handed trying to steals and contaminates the food. Is this live? Put on the Breaking News sign already!

So far, Beatrix has only said ‘hi’. We don’t yet know if she’s going to offer any help with that apple… toss! hee

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Beatrixia: So, Thomios, what is on the menu for tonight’s dinner?

Thomios: It’s time for apple harvest, so I’m preparing all-Nile apple pie for a lovely desert dessert.

Beatrixia: Nothing like a slice of apple pie with a piece of sharp cheese.

Thomios: Last time I checked, there was no cheese in the pantry. Sorry, but I don’t know if there is any available right now.

Sound of giggling in the background

Beatrixia: Hmm, those giggles did sound awfully familiar.

Hi, Beatrix! This is totally not a theft in progress! Nope, not at all!

I sense an investigative report on Robber Mice coming soon…

I spy Robber Mice! Super helpful robber mice! Nothing going on here, nope, nothing at all (casually whistling “Waltzing Mathilda”).

Busted flat while relocating apples!

OT – Bennett, Day 3

I have a new recipe to try – Apple & Tomato soup. I found the recipe when I put Georgia’s two main harvest items into a Google search. The soup looks very easy to make. However, I always like to tweak recipes and try new ingredients (thinking some heavy cream would soften the acidity of the tomatoes).

Off the countertop kitties! We are going back into production mode!

I will let you know the results next week.

I think I’m going to have to buy some apples and make pie!

The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.—John Wooden

About 10 years ago my son planted 2 apple trees, and a pear tree in our baack yard. Now I’m calling all our neighbors since we are burried in apples, Now callling all Robber Mice , (bears too) .

Helpful little beggars, no?

“Can she toss a apple?”

“Yes, she can toss a apple!”

Oh, come on, come on, come on, come on

Didn’t it make you feel that tarts were part of your plan? Yeah

And isn’t it true you need to get everything you need while you possibly can?

Honey, you know it is

And each time you tell yourself that, well the Woman has enough

But when you get caught, fakin’ it can be tough

I want you to come on, come on, come on, come on and

Take it!

Take another little piece for your tarts now, baby (whoa, bake it)

Bake it, those itty bitty apple tarts now, darling,

Yeah, yeah, yeah (whoa, have a)

Have another little piece of that quart now, baby

You know you got it, ’cause it makes you feel good

Oh, yes indeed

- Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns – Piece of My Heart

Nice recovery, mice.

“Didn’t your Woman hurt her knee recently? We just want to make sure she doesn’t aggravate the injury!"

Years ago, I was helping a friend pick up fallen apples while my dog lounged in the shade of the tree. He watched us and finally his curiosity got the better of him. He got up, picked up an apple, lay down with it, licked it, nibbled at it, finally gave me a look of total bewilderment, of “Why do you want these things?”

I know ants can lift 50 times their body, but…..just sayin.

Nothing to see here. Move along.

I thought the mice were smarter than this. Let the Woman make a pie then steal that.

It’s about time Beatrix got to do some real journalism.

Ah, so the Robber Mice can be kept in check by both Baba Mouse and Bea.

O.T. Futile question of the day

I can’t imagine anyone would begrudge one apple to the local robber mice.

Good news: the second part of my new wheelchair, the part with the actual wheelchair, arrived this evening. No assembly required except for the part where I have to switch the controls from the right to the left, after I get more zip ties to replace the ones I have to cut off when moving the wires. And install the seat and the back and the seat belt. And all the other accessories that didn’t come in the first two boxes. Maybe the rest will come tomorrow or the next day. I hope. I’m going to see if the boy can finish putting it together tomorrow morning after he gets off work. Well as much as he can with the parts we have.

So close yet so far.

This just reminded me that it’s apple picking season and I can’t wait! <33 I love this time of year :)))