Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for June 26, 2022

When I become dictator, we’ll do away with daylight savings time!

The Children are correct. Especially in summer, when “school nights” are not a thing.

This is a long standing problem. Robert Lewis Stephenson wrote a poem about it in the 1800s that went something like this (going from memory here) In winter I get up at night and dress by yellow candle light/ In summer quite the other way I have to go to bed by day. From A Child’s Garden of Verses

Sunday Funnies: (or any good news).

If I’d allowed my kids to go to bed that early, I’d never have gotten any sleep. My daughter gave up naps entirely at 18 months, went to bed around 10-11, and was up at 6-7.

No wonder the kids are rebelling! I remember going to bed before dark and it was a drag!

As another parent of a strong-willed child… Blackout curtains are a game changer.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile Presents the Conclusion: Xanadu

Queen Catshepsut the Golden: Welcome, one and all to the grand re-opening of the Great Pyramid Hidden Library. I would like to thank those who have contributed to its re-opening: Beatrixia, Lupinium, Violet-Ifa, and Puckmosis for re-discovering the library, Burt-Ra and his crew, especially Awil-Fixit the Seventh, Wally. The Artists, Sophititi, Maat-Tilda, Arachna, Iron Glove, and Adobe Style, and last but not least Beaver Lee Cleary from the Afar Public Library and Cafe. Now I’d like to turn the ceremony over to our new bee friends, represented by Queen Titania.

Queen Titania: Thank you, Your Majesty. When I graduated from Queen Bee school it was my dream to re-discover the lost Xanadu hive. With my nine wonderful assistants and their crews, we have been blessed to create the finest honey in the realm. We couldn’t have done it without the help of the Royal Procurers. Violet, would you like to say a few words?

Violet-Ifa: It’s been a privilege to play a part in the re-opening of the Hidden Library and to bring the Xanadu’s honey to Egypt and surrounding areas, but we’ll never tell how we do it. I understand there will be a cafe run by interns from Floofnet’s The Floor Can be a Ceiling Culinary School.

Queen Catshepsut: And now to celebrate, Terpsichore and Elvis-Anum have created a dance number. Take it away, friends!

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liking Georgia’s hair

I’m at the far western edge of the Eastern time zone, and it doesn’t get fully dark until around 10:00 PM this time of year. We didn’t have DST when I was a kid.

What on earth is over the girl’s face in panels 4 and 5?

I’ve heard you should never paint a bedroom yellow, because that color is too bright and energetic for sleeping, and wowser! the Boy and Girl’s bedroom looks like inside of the sun!

…Meanwhile in Iceland, the sun is barely seen at all. At least that’s what my parents tell me from when they were stationed at Keflavik.

Maybe infant Trixie from “Hi and Lois” can come and tell them about napping with Sunbeam.

Love this❤️

I remember my parents making me go to bed at 7AM, I was under 6 years old.

Goldie toe beans or at least footie pad!

Ow. Biting sarcasm from the girl!

Evening has broken like the first evening

The Woman has spoken let’s go to bed

Gaze at the sunset, praise for the toothpaste

Praise for them springbeds with fresh sheets put on them yet

Sweet the kids’ eyeroll, sunlit from Heaven

Like first annoyance on the late hour

Praise for the sweetness of the pet kitties

Reporting in completeness on air with much power

Mine is the sunlight, mine IS the MORNIN’

Still there is light, we even could play

Praise with elation, praise every morning

Georgia’s comic creation each single new day

(Morning Has Broken / Cat Stevens)

IS MORNING!!

Still light around 9:30 here. The cats are confused.

When I was stationed in Alaska, it was light out 24 hours a day. The sun would be streaming in the window at 2 AM.

“Tell it to the Sun, Elvis.” So true, Pucky, so true.

Even Pippa (or whatever the Fox’s name is [sorry]) is looking a little mutinous.

This never happen in the tropics here. Heh heh heh.

From son UP, to son Down

(daughter too)

The little girl has learned how to use sarcasm.

Is it real, is it fake?

Is this bedtime or a mistake?

‘Cause I see the sun and I’m wide awake

For certain, suddenly I start blurting

It’s bright, it’s so-ooo not late

When that fickle finger of fate

Yeah, came and kept the light in my room

I woke up

Suddenly I just spoke up, “what’s happening?!?”

Now I see sleep for what it is

It’s not all dreams, ooh, it’s not all bliss

It happened to me and it can happen to you

Ooh-oo, and then it happened

(Shhh! ‘cause now I’m nappin’…)

Eddie Holland, Brian Holland & Lamont Dozier – The Happening – The Supremes

This is my cats except in springtime mornings “sun is up, time to eat” “it’s still 4am” cries

IT ARE MORNIN’!!!

Some years ago in another city, there was a Turkish restaurant that we liked. One night we got to chatting with the owner and he told us about his first job after coming to Canada, as a work camp cook in the Yukon – land of the midnight sun!

Ramadan just happened to fall in June that year. Summer solstice in June, where it never really gets dark, and he’s not supposed to eat in daylight while surrounded by food. He said it was the biggest test of willpower he’d ever experienced and he wasn’t eager to experience it again.

OMC – This strip is so true. Thank you Georgia, you made me laugh so hard this morning.

Marie and I always had trouble with children’s bedtimes in summer. You got to love Fall and Winter…dark at 4:30!

The people need to invest in block out blinds :)

Prime hunting time is still hours away.

Where is the night, we can’t begin to knowing

But then we know the sunlight’s strong

Slept in the spring

And spring became the summer

Who’d have believed days are so long

Rays, softly warm

Reaching out, touching me, touching you

Sweet summertime

Good times never seemed so good

We can’t recline

In this light we never could

But now I

Look for the night as it

approaches slowly

Thrilling my eyes with Georgia’s blue

But while the sun shines

Warmth surrounds my shoulders

How can I freeze beholding you

Sun, bringing fun

Reaching out, touching me, touching you

Sweet summertime

Good times never seemed so good

We can’t recline

Who’d believe we ever could

Oh warm glow

Sweet summertime

Forget bad times, it’s all good

- Neil Diamond – Sweet Caroline

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Simple problem to solve…….

Step 1. Be a parent to your children first instead of trying to be their friend and playmate.

Step 2. Give them chores to do. Doesn’t have to be complicated chores, but chores none the less, that are age appropriate and make sure they do them nightly.

Step 3. Remind them that you brought them into this world and that you can take them out. Glazed over eyes and a bit spittle in one corner of the mouth is usually enough to get them to bed quickly.

Try living in Spain, where the sun doesn’t go down until 11PM in summer.

This time of year does mess me up. I eat dinner, take a shower, watch TV for awhile, then look out the window and realize it’s still broad daylight. It does make it easier to get up for work. The Children would probably take solace in knowing the cats are on their side.

I recommend some blackout curtains in there.

OT

My dad used to sing ‘You are my sunshine’ to me!!! In summer we go to bed by day, hear the children laugh & play, In winter we go to bed by night then get up dress by candlelight!!! Anyone else remember that???

I remember all this to well. My stepson hated going to bed when the sun was still shining and all the other kids were outside playing. We had to go to work and the other kids were lucky that one parent stayed home. Now that he has is own children he finally gets the struggle we had in making him go to bed.

Preserve Standard Time. Let Daylight Saving Time die.

It is hard for “southerners” to understand the dramatic difference in long-long days of Summer and the forever nights of Winter in the northern latitudes and how it messes with all your daily rhythms. I have no idea how they get children to bed in Summer above the arctic circle.

I remember a surreal evening scene in Santa Cruz when people were out clamming during an extremely low tide after 9:00 p.m., with the summer sun just hanging, hanging redly on the horizon above the dark blue ocean. It was like something out of “Through the Looking Glass”. You expected a Walrus and a Carpenter to show up.

I still dream about it sometimes.

Every spring they steal an hour. Even though they give it back in the fall, they never pay interest. That is outrageous.

I don’t care which, but pick one and stick with it. There have been studies that indicate the flipping back and forth adds stress and is bad for health.

I can recall how much I resented going to bed while it was still light out during the summer, especially because older siblings didn’t have to.

Any guesses as to the drawing on the floor at the foot of the bed?

Our first year stationed in England involved much cursing and searching for blackout curtains when we realized that the sun didn’t go down till 10PM!!!! during the summer. It’s a real pain, especially when you’re pulling 12 hour shifts during an exercise. Last two years we were prepared but it was still a shock to our Eastern Standard Time internal clocks.

I absolutely HATE daylight savings time because my body NEVER adjusts, and I am miserably out of sync until normal time returns. The fact that none of the promised benefits of changing the clocks and pretending it is reality ever came true, makes it that much worse. As the Indian Chief said, “Only a white man could cut off the top of a blanket, sew it onto the bottom of the blanket, and think he has made the blanket longer.”

Leaving DST behind was a bonus to moving to Arizona! It’s so nice not to have to fuss with it twice a year.

I do believe that little stuffed critter in panel 4 looks a bit miffed. “Bedtime bears”, cute.

CLOSE THE CURTAINS!!!!! I never could get to bed when I was young with the curtains open, or the shade up, and the sun shining in either. At least with the curtains closed, or the shade down, it made it dim enough in the bedroom to think about sleeping.

my little bear has been afraid of the dark lately so having bedtime before dark lately has been great. I’m sure next year we’ll start this battle though

Good thing they don’t live in Alaska.

8:00 PM? That’s a wee bit early, even for a five year-old…

Todays Cul De Sac is for you , Robin!

No wonder Elvis loves the girl

That’s some first-class snark by The Girl in the last panel. “You Are My Sunshine” indeed.

The girl is sassy! I like it.

Jimmie Davis, 2 time governor of Louisiana, country music star in the 1930s, author of that song, and a rich guy. He had a radio show sponsored by a patent medicine called Hadacol. The story goes that someone asked him, “How can you have Hadacol as a sponsor? You know know it’s never done anyone any good.” Davis supposedly replied, “I don’t know. It’s done me $100,000 worth of good.”

Very Robert Louis Stevenson, Georgia!

Kid is a genius