Ten Cats by Graham Harrop for August 08, 2024

It was worth repeating ☺

Oopsie. Either this is a repeat or I’ve hit senility.

It’s probably senility. This afternoon I made spaghetti sauce, with onions and mushrooms, red wine and 2 kinds of tomatoes . I simmered it for an hour. Boiled noodles. Dished up a plate full and opened the fridge to get the Parm cheese, only to see the package of hamburger I forgot to put in. Sigh. Its in the freezer, meatless. And yes it was delicious.

This strip somehow seems familiar. Didn’t we just see it recently? Like yesterday?

Today is:

SNEAK SOME ZUCCHINI INTO YOUR NEIGHBOR’S PORCH DAY. My garden is so far behind this year, I don’t have any zucchini yet. First, it was all that rain that made me plant a good 2 to 3 weeks late. Now, it’s this stupid un-summery cool weather that has everything growing and maturing too slowly. I feel bad for people who are suffering extremely high temperatures in the triple digits and I wish we could get part of your excess heat. We’re not even getting as high as 80 degrees these days. I only remember one or maybe 2 days where we got near 90. Temperatures in the 70’s are fine in May, but this is AUGUST and I want some August temperatures. If it’s this cool now, I worry we could see an early frost which would kill off my garden when it’s barely getting started. It’s been a really stupid summer all around.

NATIONAL WHATABURGER DAY

GLOBAL SLEEP UNDER THE STARS NIGHT

NATIONAL CBD DAY

NATIONAL PICKLEBALL DAY

NATIONAL MOCHI DAY

NATIONAL DOLLAR DAY

NATIONAL FROZEN CUSTARD DAY

NATIONAL HAPPINESS HAPPENS DAY

The neighbor kids used to call them “colors” rather than crayons. It drove us crazy! Look at the box! It says very clearly that they are CRAYONS!!

And he is One WITH the crayons!!

Deja vu

Poor Graham hits snags here so often!

Wasn’t this same strip used yesterday?

A strip worth repeating, if only because it shows Oliver.

I bookmarked the tractor strip, always good for a chuckle. Needed it after seeing a drawing of a dog at his master’s grave on FB this morning, couldn’t stop crying.

Anything is better than these “cluster earthquakes”. I think we had three yesterday and over 300 in the last 48 hours. I feel some, others I don’t. Cats seem to notice them, but then look to us to see if we are going to panic, if we don’t, they don’t. Phone keeps screaming at me “duck and cover earthquake” “duck and cover earthquake”, then there isn’t one or just a tiny one. I have suffered no damage save for some cracked cement here and there. We are being told these small cluster quakes often portend a major one and I DO NOT need that! Be well all from here in the middle of it Bakersfield, Ca. Still over 100 every day. I am too old for this stuff.

It’s been the same old summer here in San Francisco. Cool and sometimes cold.

FREE ELDO!

Wow, today’s strip looks just like yesterday’s. Oh well, it’s still good. On another note, saw two juncos, a butterfly, and a sparrow while out walking today.

On August 9, 1974, Gerald Ford was inaugurated as president following Richard Nixon’s resignation. Ford was the first and only person to serve as both vice president and president without winning election to either office.

On August 9, 1944, the US Forest Service created Smokey Bear to encourage people to prevent forest fires. The Wildfire Prevention Campaign is the longest-running public service announcement campaign in US history, and Smokey has become an icon recognized around the globe.

On August 9, 1854, transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau published his most famous work – Walden.

When he was Minister to France, Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter from Paris to James Monroe calling for a Bill of Rights on August 9, 1788. This was more than a year before the Bill of Rights was created and three years before the amendments were ratified.

On August 9, 1790, after a three year voyage, The Columbia becomes the first American vessel to circumnavigate the world.

General James Clinton Veteran of The French & Indian War and The Revolutionary War was born on August 9, 1736 in Little Britain, New York.

Born August 9, 1757 Eliza Schuyler Hamilton was the wife of Alexander Hamilton for 24 years and mother to their eight children. Not widely known is that she served for many years as directress of New York’s Orphan Asylum Society, raising funds and seeing to the care and education of over 700 children.

Actor Sam Elliott Born on August 9, 1944 in Sacramento, California

On August 9, 1900, the first Davis Cup tennis competition was won by The United States against England in Boston.

Somebody catnaped the strip for the ninth!

No worries. We get to see little Oliver more.

I’m glad someone is here, I thought the strip was canceled or something.

Gang. There is a NEW strip. Please have a look.