Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for February 04, 2020

I don’t blame her for the blankets, but four cats will generate four times the heat (and cuddles) than a blanket.

The Big Red Couch is a safe haven for all!

Rational responses all around! And awwww, Goldie gets a Boy Hug (as a subset of the larger Man Hug). What smiles!

I sure do love me a snuggle front, but we’ve had no real winter here in south Texas let alone a blizzard.

A snuggle front sounds good to me! As for sweaters…

https://www.instagram.com/p/B8FdCXtJ0WI/

check out what Georgia bagged during Fremont Sunday Market hunting trip!

I rather enjoy being a pile of blankets. Of course, every once in a while you will need to refill and/or umm, make room for more cocoa, cider, coffee, tea or whatever hot beverage of choice. It’s a trial for the human to get out from under all the blankets, and tends to severely annoy any cats who are sharing the blankets.

“♫ I’ve got my Puck to keep me warm.. ♫”

I just love how happy Goldie looks. Safe, warm, cuddles, and Lupin at least sharing the same sofa without (much) complaint. Reminds me of one of the very few times Kitten Dell successfully snuggled with Old Grump Chessie – “What do YOU want, kid?!” “Snuggle warms. It’s cold.” “…Just this once.”

nice new sweaters for Lupin & Elvis! they must have quite the clothing budget

I found a reference to this blizzard definition series here. Click on the video. (The children in the headline were found safe.)

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/03/us/alaska-missing-children-blizzard/index.html

Is the Woman sick? Looks like she has a pack of tissues in her hands.

Blizzards are so much FUN!! Except when they’re not.

Yesterday the snow was about halfway up the bottom window panes. Now it’s almost to the top.

It would appear that Puck is also just a pile of blankets.

The Woman is doomed to complete dissolution into the blankets.

I think the woman has hot cocoa. It could be tea but that wouldbe inappropriate for a blizzard.

Pucky looking fahbulous again, dahling!

The only problem with getting that snuggly is that there are times you MUST get un-snuggly.

The last time the outside was “gone”, we ended up with Beatrice.

Just sayin’….

Let’s see … average cat is about 18 inches long from nose to tushy … and a twin sized fuzzy blanket is about 5 ft x 8 ft …

… I’m about 5 ft tall and to achieve cat-like fuzzy blanket nirvana I would need one about … 18 ft x 24 ft … hmmmm … and my couch would have to be about 15 ft long …

This just gives me the warm fuzzies, all over! A pile of people, people kittens and cats, oh my!

This is practically cat heaven. My two love it when I’m in the recliner with nothing to do but binge-watch old Godzilla movies. Just me, my flannel pajamas, a carafe of coffee, the remote and two cats sucking the heat out of me.

Unless I’m completely wrong here, the Woman seems to be a bit chilly.

Elvis and Lupin wearing sharp sweaters for the report, Puck buried up to his neck in blankets, Goldie in her jammies snuggled up with the family and wait – Goldie and Lupin together?? Maybe the blizzard IS a bit of a wizard!

Love me a good snuggle session.

I’m Into Something Good – Peter Noone (and Pucky ❤)

Woke up this mornin’ feelin’ fine

There’s somethin’ special on my mind

Last night a blizzard blew into our neighbourhood, whoa yeah

Somethin’ tells me we’re on the couch for good

(Somethin’ tells me we’re on the couch)

It’s the kind of storm where the snow really flies

So we’re all together with fuzzy blankets piled high

We couldn’t be more comfy if we tried

All snuggled close you see like I hoped we would

(All snuggled close like I hoped we would)

Somethin’ tells me we’re into something good

(Somethin’ tells me we’re into somethin’)

Songwriters: Carole King / Gerry Goffin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpS3et-m6zI

Another home run hit for Annie McD!

Panel 1 “Woooosh”: I remember how the windows in our summer/weekend home, a 100-year-old farm house, would make that sound with the wind. It was softer sound when the snow piled up. Sometimes there’d be a rattle too.

The boy and Goldie seem to be fast friends?

OT question for the Orbsters of the Jewish faith: is there any kind of traditional gift that is given to a young girl on the occasion of her Bat Mitzvah? I was raised Catholic, so the closest frame of reference I have is Confirmation, when most of the gifts I received were of the paper variety found inside greeting cards.

My niece turns 13 tomorrow (notwithstanding the fact that I can remember holding her and singing “Return to Pooh Corner” to her on the day she came home from the hospital) and her Bat Mitzvah is on Saturday. I had planned to go with the safe choice of cash for a gift, but I am open to other ideas. Thanks!

(Also, those of you so inclined are asked to pray for traveling mercies for us, as we are driving up to Massachusetts on Thursday morning to attend the festivities, and we all know how well my last road trip went.)

OMC SO MANY BLANKETS

All you can see of The Woman is a ceramic mug and those pretty teal eyes. :-O

Lupin isn’t invisible anymore!

Panel 3 makes me happy. Goldie and the Toddler bonding nicely!

The house has no heat ?

Glad to see Lupin’s put some clothes on again.

I have a ferret named Blizzard who COULD be Lupin. But usually when she’s gone invisible it’s because she’s IN something, not in front of something white. I once (EVENTUALLY) found her sleeping in an empty paper sugar bag which I had saved on a lower shelf to put small trash in.

I also have an outdoor cat Camouflage called Cami, who is a pastel tortie who looks so bright orange and pink that you wouldn’t think she could ever hide any where. But she lives in the wood pile and when she is in or on the woodpile she can’t be seen till she moves. We think wood is brown, but the woodpile must be grey and pink and orange, ‘cause those are Cami’s colors and she is perfectly hidden in plain sight there.

10 minutes ago Mudd said,

Hey, Wx is forcasting rain/snow,sleet,for wensdae,rain thursdae. Not good travel days. Be safe. Peace.

Looks like a ‘Three Cat Night’ !!

WAIT! Make that a ‘FOUR Cat Night’ !! … Yup! We’re good here!! :)

Goldie and Lupin are dangerously close. It must be really cold.

I want in on the snuggle front!

Bad weather is usally a truce for animal squabbles except for predator and prey which is never a truce. I’m surrounded by woods, and the cardinal pairs give each other a rough time except in bad weather. I’ve seen as many as six pairs of cardinals in the same tree waiting their turns at the feeder.

Today is Sweater Day, supposed to be highly appropriate to this month. I wish it would get cold enough to wear a sweater. I have several I’d love to wear, but I can’t remember the last time I wore one.

Looks like Lupin has put some clothes back on.

Looks like Puck is attempting to become a pile of blankets.

Heavy snowfall and raging winds. Sounds like either a blizzard or a whiteout (of course usually the two are one and the same)

Greetings from the southern hemisphere, where I’m currently sitting in my undies because it’s so hot, and I’ve only seen snow once in my 47 years.

toddler 1.0 snuggling goldie is absolutely ADORABLE :)

The Woman looks like Wigglesworth in Swan Eaters

Disappearing under a pile of blankets…Sounds as if their house might be as well insulated as ours.

Today’s weather: A snuggle front is moving through with a chance of marshmallows. Drifting blankets are possible.

Horray!! A snuggle front!! Those are the BEST only slightly better than a cuddle storm! ❤❤❤ I love being a pile a blankets! (hi-fives to the Woman)

Oh my goodness so cute especially the snuggle front and the blanket pile !

And The Woman is just a pile of blankets now! My kind of snuggle! Enjoy!

Oh, when it gets cold around here, I just love to cuddle into a blanket, pull part of it up over my head and wrap the edge of it around my face! So snug!