Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for December 09, 2022

Oh dear! Lupin is far too interested in what she’s saying. Distract him, quick!

I love eating my tree! Don’t you

I like shoot it out of a cannon!

Dad Cat has spoken! You must . . . she’s not gonna listen to him, is she?

OT. If you haven’t seen this, you might like it. You might even like it if you have seen it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1xfcMG_lbw

Well, dang, Ora Zella should do a version of the Mythbusters — Today, on FurBusters, we chop down a Christmas tree, set it on fire, and shoot it out of a cannon! I’ll also show you how to booby-trap Santa, tie him up, and take his sleigh for a joyride!

Maybe she’ll find it more festive once the lights and ornaments are in place.

Does breaking cat news mean a cat was broken? Some people probably still light trees on fire. Not everyone has got an electric fireplace. We had the old fashioned one where the smoke would go up a chimney, and logs from a tree would keep the fire burning.

Order Vs Chaos. Which will win? (When order’s back is turned…)

Oh no! Distract Lupin, Quick!

Lupin’s ears are burning… it’s how their going to burn the tree down. Also shows our heroes parenting style: gentle but firm no, angry old man no, and “YES YES BURN IT ALL”

O.T.

“Admire it from afar” Pucky? Really? I seem to remember a certain report on December 2 2018 where you were full of advice on the climbing of the tree…

I am SO HERE for any and all of Ora Zella’s notes.♥

The smol tortie has very cute toebeans (panel 3). And apparently is a budding artist, although I don’t get what it was she drew in panel 4.

We’ve fortunately graduated from eating the tree, but Ember still likes to climb it.

OT … spoiler space follows if you do not wish to partake in the morbidity ….

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Of all the issues I expected to encounter in Denver, SIL being upset that her mother’s obituary (which I am writing) will mention three great-grandchildren was not one of them.

For my part, I follow the precedent set by my paternal grandmother. One of my cousins was “married into” the family at age 10, which generated a bit of pushback … primarily from Dad’s older sister, whose two children were demoted from “first in the line of succession” as it were. (Cousin T is 52, whereas Cousin R is 50 and his sister is 49.) My grandmother decided Cousin T was a grandchild. Period, paragraph, 30. She even made a point of ensuring T was named on a cross-stitch listing all her grandchildren.

The Woman and I got married right around the time two of my nieces were born; their impending arrival was announced shortly after our engagement. My mother almost immediately started describing herself as having “one grandchild and two on the way.” The Sisters were given maybe five minutes to vent about this, and then my mother shut them down. Nothing has been said since, to the extent that no one in my family so much as uses the prefix “step-” when referring to The Boy. And after their one-year anniversary last January, my mom also started acknowledging a great-granddaughter. (Their two-year anniversary is next month; we’re all starting to look at The Boy and say “(bleep) or get off the pot!” but I digress.)

The MIL made Christmas stockings for all her grandchildren, and had done so for the first two great-grandchildren. We found The Girl’s half-finished stocking on her craft table. We’re going to put the finished portion in a frame with a little placard saying “From Grandma Susan [her “great-grandma” name], Christmas 2022.”

We have set a holiday tree on fire. Cut it up neatly, and burned it in the snow-covered backyard sometime in late March.

And that was the beginning of our relationship with the B*** Next Door, as she called the Fire Department on us…

I love the addition of these two kittens, one feisty and one calm. Nothing is save when they’re awake.

OT: A Day of Last Things

Has this kid gotten a name in universe, or are we all just calling her Ora Zella? :P

I’m all for shooting it out of a cannon after New Rears

Ora keeps her speed on high

Asking questions with no restraint

And sweet Pucky in reply

Patiently answers with no complaint

Elvis, we have heard him sigh

Warns her sternly through the night

But scamp Lupin in reply

Eggs her on with much delight

Gloria, in excelsis cattus

In excelsis cattus-oh

- James Chadwick – Angels We Have Heard on High

Lupin and Ora need careful supervision. MythBusters would take them, perhaps. I can hear the quotes now.

“When in doubt, C4.”— Jamie Hyneman, MythBusters

I reject your reality and substitute my own! — Adam Savage, MythBusters

What I think you need is the “MythBusters Concerto in C-4”. — Sgt. J.D. Nelson, MythBusters

This is starting to feel like a bad idea.— Tory Belleci, MythBusters

Failure is always an option!— Adam Savage, MythBusters

This is why we can never have anything nice.— Grant Imahara (RIP), MythBusters

Ora Zella is kinda reminding me of Rose on The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell here.

“Eat it?” I think Euell Gibbons was reincarnated as Ora Zella.

The chopping already happened, and there will be fire later, but not in the way she or apparently Lupin want. I like that her notes just have a picture of fire.

Oh oh oh, that sweet fuzzy baby velociraptor reminds me so much of the x-treme tortitude of my late, great Miss Tweedle Diva. What a blazing spirit she was, for 19 years. She taught me everything I ever needed to know about “I am the Cat who walks by herself and all places are alike to me. . . MINE.”

When my 2 girls were kittens the tree had no ornaments for the first 2 or 3 rows. As they got older we switched to unbreakable ornaments. Now that they are 15 and 16 yrs. old, we are back to a completed tree with all the family ornaments. And 2 lumps below the tree!

My new rescue cat is scared to death of the tree and will not go near it.

Oh Tannenbaum

Oh cannon bomb, Oh cannon bomb,

In the middle of the living room.

Oh cannon bomb, Oh cannon bomb,

An instrument of certain doom!

We want to eat, or chop it down

As with Lupin, we run around!

Oh cannon bomb, oh cannon bomb,

In the middle of the living room!

Kyo, who loved eating the tree passed about 4 years ago so we can have a real tree again. Like OZ, the rest of gang had big plans for the fake trees. But the real tree? They don’t mess with it at all.

Georgia,

I love the way you are writing Ora Zella. The way she said, “I’ve got some NOTES.” You could just hear the exuberance in her tiny voice.

She is going to be a lot of fun to follow in BCN. Thanks for bringing her in.

Cats aren’t big on admiring things from a distance. They like to get paws-on.

Both of my cats try to eat the tree. Chew on it anyway. Well, one has no teeth, so he gums it.

Christmas Tree……..Cat speak for a season climbing toy with a multitude of other hanging toys to play with.

Meanwhile,Back on the Nile

Lupinium: Great job thwumping, guys. I’m sure the Artisans will appreciate all your work.

At the Artisan’s Studio

Sophititi: Lovely. This broken pottery will make a lovely sculpture.

Maat-Tilda: And some of these shards will be perfect in my latest tapestry.

Adobe Style: Iron Glove is preparing the gold for my kintsugi pieces. Like to help?

Iggy: I’d be glad to. Want to join me, Ora?

Ora Z: Sure. Do we have enough gold?

Adobe Style: I think so. Iron Glove and his brother Packer brought a whole bag full from the Very Good Pyramid yesterday.

Iggy: It’s nice to have rooms full of treasure.

Maat-Tilda: But Beatrixia is organizing the real treasure. A whole library full of scrolls!

We got our sweet Osiris a few days before Christmas in 1993, she had been surrendered to the pound by her owners a few days earlier. She spent the entire time that first Christmas sitting on the chair arm right beside the tree and watching it as if afraid it would disappear. In years to come she would knock them over trying to climb them but this first Christmas she just sat there watching. That along with so many other things she did led us to believe her people had moved most likely surprise TDY, there were a lot of military about. I bless them that they took the time to take her to the SPCA instead of just throwing her out and leaving. We had 20 wonderful years with this sweet and loving creature.

The new hellion. . .er, kitten’s story line is hilarious!

I like her train of thought! Break out the Christmas cannon!

Eat a tree? Not be retreeculous, cat.

If you were scared of it last strip why would you want to do get close to it, hm?

Seriously, this kitten needs to stay as a regular in this comic. :D

This is what happens when you have pets and try to spruce up the place

Literal LOL & a =SNORT= or two at “shoot it out of a cannon?”! Georgia, you’re a GENIUS! =wipes away tears=

p.s. SOOOOO glad I wasn’t taking a sip of coffee, or I’d be needing a new keyboard…

there is a local tree burning night sometime in January and boy dried up christmas trees make a wonderful bonfire.

Launch it into space, give it to beavers, throw it into the ocean. The possibilities are endless!

The werewolf and Lupin would both love a Christmas rocket series that was on a few years ago. At least one of the episodes had the teams turn Christmas trees into rockets. They were artifical trees, but still…

Uh, setting it on fire? Shooting it out of a cannon??? Wow, she’s definitely has a lot to learn. Like the joy of being under a tree and just looking up. Falling asleep under the tree. Sniffing the packages.

Save all that fun stuff for after Christmas (when the fire departments are back to full staffing levels). :)

That poor tree. It may not make it until the 25th.

OT: O Tommybaum…

O. Z. is a real cat’s cat.

Reminds me of the Euell Gibbons quote, “You ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible.”

I have finally created my Tommybaum. Sitting on the front porch for all to see.

The working title for Ora Zella’s notes: 101 REALLY COOL USES FOR A CHRISTMAS TREE!!! (sic)

Wednesday we installed last years amazing heavy indestructible table model tree with wooden indestructible ornaments. Today the first ornament was dead, broken on the floor when I got home….

I am absolutely certain who the murderer is out of 6 choices, could to g the dog….

Counting

This young’un seems like she’d be more into Guy Fawkes Day.

“Remember, remember, the spaz of November. . .”

I love gin. My brother says it tastes like chewing on a pine tree. Hmmmmm…pine tree

This reminds me of an old LOLcat meme. “Stupid hoomans, couch look better on fire”

This is going to be a tremendous arc.

We have a new cat named What-What who is currently quarantined in our garage until her second round of blood tests. If she’s clean on the second tests, she’ll be inside before the tree is taken down. I am holding my breath…..

So – Lupin and Ora Zella at last. Destruction in 3….2….1….

The tree is already chopped down!!

Channel your inner MatPat!