Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for April 26, 2024

Ice cream, of course!

By dip her paw she means empty a big bucket of rocky road. Maybe with some catnip sprinkles?

Tommy is the best.

Aw, Tommy. You’re a good friend.

Lovely cat bed, Sophie! But then, I would expect no less.

Ice cream cures all. It’s early, so make mine coffee flavored.

Tommy’s mission is clear. Exterminate all Fe… Ah, I mean get Cat safe Ice Cream!

Straight up French vanilla ice cream is most soothing.

Toe bean alert, panel 3. Thank you, Georgia!

I don’t think Maw would be happy if Paw was dipped in ice cream…

Sophie does drama beautifully. One would expect no less from an artist like her.

Welcome back, Elvis!

Oh no! She’s becoming CATatonic!

Where did yesterday’s key go? It’s too big for a pocket, even if her nightgown had one.

Oh geez. Someone gives her a role in that kitty soapy opera. The 9 kat be lifes or sometheeng.

I see that she is stroking her bed lightly with her left paw as if anticipating the ice cream.

I’m sensing a breakthrough here. Ice cream has always been my answer for everything. Raised my kids that way too!

I was surprised when I was told ice cream is available in the USA in all seasons so Sophie can dip her paws in ice cream anytime.

When I have canker sores I eat Ice cream to soothe pain in my mouth.

Oh, rats, now I want ice-cream!

Elvis is livid…which isn’t new but it’s about Sophie which gives me hope.

Ice cream makes everything better!!

She’s traveling on a Rocky Road…maybe she’ll meet a Neapolitan…

O.T.

Oblivious is a good word for our cheese-loving ferret friend. It’s a good thing Tommy is there to support her.

Marie always wanted a fainting couch in her private boudoir so she could DRAMATICALLY fall upon it in a fit of vapors. She also always wanted a house with a stately name like Covingbow, Sulland House, or Penninghold Manor.

Alas, we are pretty much stuck with The House Of Cats. However, if you say it in the Gaelic, it sounds pretty good: Taigh nan Cat.

Taigh nan Cat is not large enough for the Lady to have a private boudoir, and as far as the fainting couch, we used the money to repair the brakes on the Nissan. Therefore, like Sophie, the Lady will have to be content with a bowl of French Vanilla with chocolate sauce.

Ice Cream: A natural anti-depressant remedy….

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

*Sue Chef: Thank you for the tour of your dairy.

*Alvina: You’re very welcome. And you’ll always be welcome here at Sir Alcott’s estate.

Sue Chef: Let’s discuss starting an exchange program with Redlex and Punn State Universities. We already have some distinguished alumni here.

Alvina: Will you do that?

Alice-Ata: Of course. You have to make cheese before you can take cheese.

Sue Chef: And we’ll have plenty of cheese for the Just Because feast.

Ah Sophie, you are a cat after my own heart! I recall many a time flinging myself dramatically onto my bed while wearing a long white nightgown. Ice cream does help.

At least the artist-i-residence acknowledges that she’s a drama queen (with a yen for ice cream)!

Surely never was a female (cat) so sadly used by love!

Sweet Sophie, I have to run some errands today, and I’ll be glad to get you some ice cream. What flavour would you like?

“Someone oblivious.” Ah, Puck – right on the nose!boop

I can think of younger days when living for my life

Was everything a cat could want to do

I could never see tomorrow

I was never told about the sorrow

And how can you mend a broken heart?

How can you stop the rain from falling down?

Tell me, how can you stop the sun from shining?

What makes the world go ’round?

How can you mend a this broken cat? Yeah

How can a loser ever win?

Somebody please help me mend my broken heart

And let me live again, la-la, la-la, la

I can still feel the breeze that rustles through the trees

And misty memories of days gone by

But we could never see tomorrow

Would you believe that no one, no one ever told us about the sorrow?

So how can you mend a broken heart? And mine is

How can you stop the rain from falling down? Baby

How can you stop that old sun from shining?

What makes the world go ’round? And sometime I have to say, yeah, say

La-la-la, la-la-la, uh-huh, yeah

La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la, tell me

Help me mend my, my broken heart

I just wanna, I just wanna, I just wanna, I just wanna

I just wanna live again, Baby

How can you mend this broken cat? Yeah, somebody tell me

How can a loser ever win? ’Cause, Baby

Help me mend my, this old broken heart

I think I, I believe I

I feel like I got to, I feel like I wanna live again

How can you mend, ah, this broken heart? Somebody please tell me

How can you stop the rain from falling down? I know my fur is all wet, tell me

How can you mend my, please help me mend my broken heart

I think I, I believe I, I’ve got a feeling that I want to live and live and live

La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la

La-la-la

La

Could someone please pass the Häagen-Dazs?

Make mine green tea with Kahlua™ poured over it. (My wife got an ice cream maker for her retirement gift. She makes wonderful green tea ice cream.)

I don’t like to admit it, but in my younger days I was probably as oblivious as Wesley. My wife (50 years in two months) had a lot of patience just to get my attention. I think I have improved over the years. At least I hope so.

What ice cream can’t cure, peanutbutter cups can.

Great choice, Sophie! Ice cream is always a good go-to snack.

Will anyone acknowledge that Sophie has been just as oblivious to that Raccoon’s feelings?

Sophie wants to be the heroine of an opera.

while ice cream is one of my favorite depression medicines, i was hoping Sophie would ask for cheesecake like a Golden Girl.

Ok, just because it is about time…:

INGREDIENTS Yield: approximately ½ gallon.

2 cups milk

2 cups heavy cream (unwhipped)

½ cup sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

1 can (12 oz) orange soda (or any fruit flavored soda)

ice

rock salt

DIRECTIONS

1. Mix milk, cream, sugar, vanilla, and soda in ice cream freezer canister.

2. Place lid on canister and put in freezer.

3. Layer ice and rock salt in freezer around canister.

4. Freeze according to manufacturer’s directions.

Sometimes I will make one half gallon with orange soda and another with black cherry soda, then, after they are both frozen, I will swirl them together before I store in the deep freezer.

Happy birthday to me! (67) This is going to be a good year, I wish I could do like the hobbits and give presents to everybody in the Mega-Orb. Love to all!!!!

Sophie is starting to remind me of a PBS promo they had in the 1990s. There’s a teenage girl in a gown like Sophie’s, she says in a very dramatic voice with a slight British accent, “no, I shall never marry Charles” or something like that, “I shall run away to Paris and exist on chocolat” (I can just barely remember this) “dear brother, do send him away” – she, her bedroom, the music, everything looks like a promo for something on Masterpiece Theater. Then you see her brother, just wearing a t-shirt and blue jeans and he says “uhhh – he’s downstairs – what do you want me to tell him?”

I’m surprised Sophie has not been romantically involved with the downstairs cats.