At least she was awake when it happened. Mine only seems to do that just after I’ve turned off the light. (Okay, technically still awake, but a horribly inconvenient time!)
I’m reminded of some directions on giving a cat a bath. If you are a woman, sit down and have a good cry. If you are a man, sit down and have a good cry.
OT Today is the first day of MId-Autum-Festival, when family and friends meet over a meal to watch the full moon. Will our racoon friend bring Sophie a moon cake to share under the shininng orb? Or might the two of them at their separate homes look at the moon their hearts brimming with affection for their absent soul-mate?
This could be a blessing in disguise. Now she has to go through the closet one item at a time. A great opportunity to weed out the unused, unwanted or hideous (why on EARTH did I buy that?) and donate.
For what it’s worth, I’ve purged my closet four times since Paul died, and I still have too many clothes This is mainly because I can’t seem to part with some outfits he particularly liked on me.
Just a couple of weeks ago I moved some clothes I never wear out of my bedroom closet into the (relatively unused) hall closet because I was worried about this sort of thing. Was I prophetic?
Love the “Who do I need to fight” to the “I would build you a whole house and it would be on the moon” and finally “Burn it! Burn it ALL!” That tail keeps going like that she’s going to take off. Of course, wonder who “helped” it fall down……
Today we have Ora Zella building on the moon. Earlier this week we had Ora Zella fighting the moon. Today we have a mess of clothes on the floor. Last week’s arc featured Tortimer and a missing remote. I can’t help but think these are all somehow precursors to the upcoming story arc.
Ugh, I HATE it when that happens … and it is NEVER happening again in this house! I replaced the flimsy closet rods that were here with metal pipe and built stouter rod holders, too. Having one rod come down while we were getting ready for work was more than enough.
Last night there was a crash in the middle of the night. I got up to check, and found one of the cats sitting on the kitchen counter where the paper towel stand was supposed to be, and the paper towel roll was on the floor—in the cats’ water dish. >:-(
The paper towel stand (with a new, fresh, DRY roll of towels!) now has a new home in the kitchen, hanging from a cup hook I screwed into the ceiling this morning, where cats can’t reach it and my head won’t bump into it either!
I too am familiar with the falling curtain rod. Mine is the length of two doors, plus; the rod is wooden (I’m not sure you could get wooden ones that long anymore). The maintenance person who fixed it, just put a piece of wood with a V cut out on the end with the broken bracket, plus a bracket in the middle. The end piece works great, but the metal bracket in the middle bent like butter. Rather than have them try again and have to listen to how I have too many clothes in there, I bought a 1×4 board, cut a V in the end, and jammed it up under the rod in the middle. Works much better! (Seriously, why would the closet be that size if it wasn’t meant to hold all the clothes I can cram onto the rod?)
Georgia posted some photos from her talk at the library yesterday on Facebook. Any of our orbsters seen in the photos? To those of you who can access Facebook, I think you can see the photos here: www.facebook.Com/breakingcatnewscomic
Oh, I am soooo Team Ora Zella. She’s “Torti-tude” incarnate: ‘barn cat’ moxie attitude and predator instinct, amplified by lethal levels of adolescent joi de vivre. "Burn it! Burn it all!!!!! <hee!>
Ricky Bennett 2 months ago
That was a clothes call…
azkfwecho Premium Member 2 months ago
Crime of fashion! Burt’s hittin’ on the snark.
McColl34 Premium Member 2 months ago
At least she was awake when it happened. Mine only seems to do that just after I’ve turned off the light. (Okay, technically still awake, but a horribly inconvenient time!)
azkfwecho Premium Member 2 months ago
OZ’s wagging tail. I wonder if she’s part dog.
Le'letha Premium Member 2 months ago
Oof. I’m sure this was not based on a true story at all. I hope the good cry helped! Sometimes that’s what it takes!
uncle snipe 2 months ago
Ora Zella is the style guru. Moon Houses and the brilliant advice on fashion from forgotten days: Burn it! BURN IT ALL!
Ahsum 2 months ago
Sunday Funday
Sue Ellen 2 months ago
I once had the shower rod fall down while I was taking a shower! Bruised my shoulder and let water spray all over the bathroom floor.
WelshRat Premium Member 2 months ago
I wonder if Iggy’s doing some undercover reporting from inside the pile?
FreyjaRN Premium Member 2 months ago
OZ’s loyalty is sweet.
I’m reminded of some directions on giving a cat a bath. If you are a woman, sit down and have a good cry. If you are a man, sit down and have a good cry.
dmah Premium Member 2 months ago
Just picturing a Big Pink House on the moon, where Ora Zella takes one small hop for kittenhood, and then makes one giant pounce for tortie-dom.
Anna-Tiger 2 months ago
OT Today is the first day of MId-Autum-Festival, when family and friends meet over a meal to watch the full moon. Will our racoon friend bring Sophie a moon cake to share under the shininng orb? Or might the two of them at their separate homes look at the moon their hearts brimming with affection for their absent soul-mate?
Stitch in time 2 months ago
Is anyone else wondering how the rod came to fall down? Might a small cat have had something to do with it?
I AM CARTOON LADY! 2 months ago
Can’t help but wonder if a certain, adventures kitten…(cough cough, OZ!) decided to walk across the closet rod…hmmmmm?
wolfiiig 2 months ago
Try QVC, do not pass GO!
cat19632001 2 months ago
♪"I heard a tortie say
(Burn baby burn) closet Inferno
(Burn baby burn) burn that closet down
(Burn baby burn) closet Inferno
(Burn baby burn) burn that closet down"♫
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(Disco Inferno – Writer(s): Phillip Pitts, Curtis James Jackson, Teraike Crawford)
cat19632001 2 months ago
Build a house? Now I’m imagining Ora Zella with power tools.
dmerritt7 2 months ago
This could be a blessing in disguise. Now she has to go through the closet one item at a time. A great opportunity to weed out the unused, unwanted or hideous (why on EARTH did I buy that?) and donate.
Just_Karl 2 months ago
One of the advantages of being a bachelor, most of my clothes are on the floor to begin with, so not much risk of collapsing anything. :)
dl_supertroll 2 months ago
Wardrobe malfunction
Jungle Empress 2 months ago
Thank Cat for feline helpers!
NeedaChuckle Premium Member 2 months ago
Built an amoire for my mother. Used black pipe and stanchions for support. You could do pull ups on it.
Grace Premium Member 2 months ago
Forced closet clean out. Not necessarily a bad thing :) Lots of snuggly old sweaters for kitties to nest in.
Red Bird 2 months ago
Building a house on the Moon would certainly be out of this world.
golfgranny47 2 months ago
I love OZ’s comments in the last panel! She has the solution!
Cassia 2 months ago
My closet rod broke which started the whole world crying
But I didn’t see that most things didn’t fit me oh no
I started to cry which started the smol cat advising
Oh If I’d only seen that it was past time to clean
I looked at pant size running my hands over my thighs
And OZ yelled “Burn it all dead” hurting my head from things that she said
’Till I finally diet which started a new way of living
Oh if I’d only seen that it broke ’cause of me
Oh no that it broke ’cause of me
/Barry Gibb, Maurice Ernest Gibb, Robin Hugh Gibb /I Started A Joke
Katzen1415 2 months ago
I thought Ora Zella fought the Moon. Sweet offer, though.
LtPowers 2 months ago
This literally happened to me last week. Minus the crying.
cat19632001 2 months ago
Ora Zella: “Who do I need to fight? Just point them out. I’ll take them on. In fact, why don’t I just take everybody out? That’ll make things easier.”
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member 2 months ago
She’s a little terror, isn’t she? :D
rs0204 Premium Member 2 months ago
Routinely, we purge our closet of old clothes that don’t fit or that we don’t like. They’re sent to charity.
rs0204 Premium Member 2 months ago
Georgia! How did the talk at the library go?
ladykat 2 months ago
For what it’s worth, I’ve purged my closet four times since Paul died, and I still have too many clothes This is mainly because I can’t seem to part with some outfits he particularly liked on me.
Daltongang Premium Member 2 months ago
Truly a first world problem.
MRBLUESKY529 2 months ago
I’m waiting for this to happen in my wife’s closet. Any day now, if she doesn’t start weeding out the clothes she no longer wants.
emiesty2 2 months ago
OT Drifter the Cat
emiesty2 2 months ago
A good news story (search AP or MPR = Minnesota Public Radio)
A Duluth cat was found underground after missing for nearly two monthsThe Wolf In Your Midst 2 months ago
Just a couple of weeks ago I moved some clothes I never wear out of my bedroom closet into the (relatively unused) hall closet because I was worried about this sort of thing. Was I prophetic?
burke129529 2 months ago
OT – Thank you
Fennec! at the Disco 2 months ago
When I wake up to a crash in the middle of the night, my first response is generally tears. Relatable.
TechDude 2 months ago
My shower rod recently fell down. It scared the absaloute crap out of me.
metagalaxy1970 2 months ago
Love the “Who do I need to fight” to the “I would build you a whole house and it would be on the moon” and finally “Burn it! Burn it ALL!” That tail keeps going like that she’s going to take off. Of course, wonder who “helped” it fall down……
kathy.barsz Premium Member 2 months ago
Ora Zella – Queen of the Brute Force Methos of repair
azkfwecho Premium Member 2 months ago
Slightly OT: Notifications
Denny Wheeler Premium Member 2 months ago
OT Bad news on TK Streams
thelsrc 2 months ago
Today we have Ora Zella building on the moon. Earlier this week we had Ora Zella fighting the moon. Today we have a mess of clothes on the floor. Last week’s arc featured Tortimer and a missing remote. I can’t help but think these are all somehow precursors to the upcoming story arc.
Denny Wheeler Premium Member 2 months ago
(slightly) OT Georgia’s talk yesterday
GSD Mom Premium Member 2 months ago
Ugh, I HATE it when that happens … and it is NEVER happening again in this house! I replaced the flimsy closet rods that were here with metal pipe and built stouter rod holders, too. Having one rod come down while we were getting ready for work was more than enough.
Fennec! at the Disco 2 months ago
Last night there was a crash in the middle of the night. I got up to check, and found one of the cats sitting on the kitchen counter where the paper towel stand was supposed to be, and the paper towel roll was on the floor—in the cats’ water dish. >:-(
The paper towel stand (with a new, fresh, DRY roll of towels!) now has a new home in the kitchen, hanging from a cup hook I screwed into the ceiling this morning, where cats can’t reach it and my head won’t bump into it either!
Fennec! at the Disco 2 months ago
You know, it’s truly a pity that the Woman (unlike her kids) cannot understand what the cats say!
Corpse Horn Light Premium Member 2 months ago
I need an Ora Zella in my life, I do!
Billy Yank 2 months ago
In the last panel, it looks more like a Fair Isle Sweater than a shirt. There are a lot of adds out for them this fall.
xsintricks 2 months ago
After I had retired from a US Gov’t agency back in 2013, I took a complete set of my work provided work clothes and burned them.
Trespassers W 2 months ago
The first step being to have a good cry reminds me of a gag from an episode of M*A*S*H:
Col. Blake: The first thing people do in a situation like this is panic.
Hawkeye: So far I am doing it in the right order.
Solarbear Premium Member 2 months ago
cjbaier 2 months ago
Love Ora Zella’s tail waggle and, “Who do I need to fight?” She knows how to resolve any problem!
azkfwecho Premium Member 2 months ago
Georgia posted some photos from her talk at the library yesterday on Facebook. Any of our orbsters seen in the photos? To those of you who can access Facebook, I think you can see the photos here: www.facebook.Com/breakingcatnewscomic
j.l.farmer 2 months ago
That’s one way to discover items you bought years ago that you forgot about!!
turner7811 Premium Member 2 months ago
There is a report on Instagram with many photos. The Girl is in some of them, but not the Boy. Perhaps he is the Photographer?
xsintricks 2 months ago
Late OT:
azkfwecho Premium Member 2 months ago
Oh, crap, here we go again.
fullmoondeb Premium Member 2 months ago
Midnight now here on the west coast and still no Monday comic.
Pucky 2 months ago
I bet OZ did it.
Lauren Kramer 2 months ago
WOO HOO! Just got notification that “Good as Goldie” is being delivered tomorrow! YAY!
leftbehind004 2 months ago
At least we get to see Tabitha and Sir Figaro Newton again.
elhorr 2 months ago
Oh, I am soooo Team Ora Zella. She’s “Torti-tude” incarnate: ‘barn cat’ moxie attitude and predator instinct, amplified by lethal levels of adolescent joi de vivre. "Burn it! Burn it all!!!!! <hee!>
mistercatworks 2 months ago
Donate it. Donate it all.
jillzim Premium Member about 2 months ago
I adore that girl.
Elbiff Mow Mow about 1 month ago
aww, oz “who do I need to fight?”