Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for August 10, 2022

Sounds like a good adventure!

The walled off addition? The room with the purple wallpaper? Okay, now I really want to explore the BPH. Will you take us with you? Please?

What—there’s a “walled-off addition”? And a “weird room with purple wallpaper”? (At least it’s not yellow . . . ) Now I want to know even more about the BPH!

Sounds like the Winchester Mystery House. Staircases that lead to nowhere, doors that open to blank walls. Lots of fun.

Sounds like A Setup For Adventure!

Watching Natasha and Violet get ready to backpack to the attic is a shriek! And the sights along the way…..double shriek!

I would also like to see a postcard from the weird room with purple wallpaper. O.o And about that walled-off addition, now…is there a little door? Does it open on bricks? Do whispers come out of it at night? Is there only one key to it? Because now we’re edging into Coraline territory, and I am there.

Doom awaits all who enter the walled-off section.

Puck, I can’t wait either.

Take a video, Mice!

Ummm … why would anyone wall off an addition? I mean, this being the BPH, I’d have to rule out creepy murder mystery scenarios, so no bodies but then what else could it be? Was someone trying to hide something? Seems kind of extreme, losing an entire room just to keep a something secret …

With all the excitement about “new” rooms, didn’t anyone notice the Happy Puck toebeans?

Is Violet using a Q-Tip as a walking stick?♥

Does Zazzle do post cards? I’d LOVE to have some BCN postcards of all the characters including the house, the farm, the neighborhood, and some of the maps and floor plans. (Or better yet, bubblegum collector cards of all our favorite cartoon panels.)

O.T.

Well there’s a first. The glorious toebeans took a back seat to my rapt interest in sealed off weird rooms!

My cats are hot every year.

Weird Room with purple wallpaper " People need to know"

An adventure!

Is there a creepy old porcelain doll in the walled off addition?

I think we might be heading back on the adventure trail for this year’s Halloween arc. At least I would love it if these random locations were connected to some spooky storyline. Hope the Robber Mice have a safe trip, and I imagine a check to see what they stole is in order.

Prince: Purple Rain

There’s no longer any need for hammers

There’s no need for nails

We know the roof’s no longer leaking

And now we can see each other

Laughing even when it rains!

…….

Purple room, purple room

Purple room, purple room

Purple room, purple room

And now we can go the attic

Hiking through the purple room!

…….

I always wanted to the explore the old pipes

Go backpacking with my friends

I want to see what’s behind the walled-off addition

Say hi to Tillie and all have adventures without end!

…….

Purple room, purple room

Purple room, purple room

Purple room, purple room

And now we can go the attic

Hiking through the purple room!

…….

And guys, I know, I know

Time to go exploring

And we’ll make sure to send you postcards

Of all that’s new, we’ll show you, too

I know we’re all so curious

And Tash and I made up our minds

We’re gonna go backpacking

And go see what’s in the purple room!

…….

Purple room, purple room

Purple room, purple room

Purple room, purple room

And now we can go the attic

Hiking through the purple room!

I have always fancied an old Victorian home with a hidden room. That would be so cool. Have the entrance hidden behind a bookcase, an armoire, or a secret door in a closet. I have thought about building one; however, modern homes don’t lend themselves to that kind of alteration.

Not to apply a damper, but the walled off addition could simply be walled off from access from the interior of the BPH but still have a separate outside access point.

Have a good, safe trip, girls!

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Beatrixia: It’s great to have the No Longer Hidden Library up and running, but I can’t help but wonder if we’ve only found a small part of what’s here.

Violet-Ifa: I know there all sorts of legends about the pyramid. Maybe some of them have the key.

Beatrixia: True, but where can we look?

Violet-Ifa: Why not start right here? Try the scrolls in the 930s.

Bea: Great idea. There are a ton of scrolls just waiting to be read.

Vi: And then we can hike through the pyramid to read the ancient hieroglyphs.

Bea: That reminds me. There was a hieroglyph by the new Cafe I was hoping you could translate for me.

Vi: Glad to oblige. I’ll take a look at it.

Sometime Later

Bea: Can you translate it?

Vi: Yes. It’s a recipe for kibble pie with decatf coffee.

Bea: Maybe we should see if Lupinium likes it.

It’s nice to know they are in the laundry room, with the two mice on the ironing board.

Don’t forget to spend the night at the Hostel on the 2nd floor girls.

“The Road Less Traveled” – murine style.

I would posit that any room with purple wallpaper is weird!

Walled off addition? Purple wallpaper? Do we know about these places?

What? No cellphone coverage from the weird room with the purple wallpaper?

Curiouser and curiouser …

Hi, there’s a walled-off addition? Sounds like a story waiting to be told. Or several stories.

Many thanks for all the encouragement sent my way yesterday and today! I’ve found a way to cover the heart monitor and take a shower, but after the first attempt today, some adjustments need to be made. I found “waterblock” tape in the wound care section at the pharmacy, and cut an appropriate size piece of plastic out of a ziploc freezer bag and taped the plastic firmly down on all sides. However, there was a slight glitch—a portion of the waterproof tape came loose and water did get under the plastic, but apparently not enough to affect the monitor, as its little light is shining as usual. That tape is very sticky, uncomfortably so, but I think maybe the moisturizers in my body wash, or maybe hair conditioner since I washed my hair, loosened the adhesive on a section of the tape. So I will take that into consideration and try again tomorrow!

OT

Per Facebook posts from the Folger Shakespeare Library, this is Puck Week (surprisingly this long after Midsummer Night).

As long as it’s not the yellow wallpaper…

I like how this comment section has dissolved into me and a few other random people discussing our favorite scary movies.

Natasha, her arms wide…

Purple wallpaper? Reminds me of a This Old House renovation where the homeowners had a bedroom painted in multiple shades of chromatic purple so no matter where you stood or what time I day the room looked like a different shade. Personally, it was quite hideous and fit with their questionable decorating tastes (in my opnion anyway).