Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for June 01, 2024

Awwww, cute little lady-kitty!

Everyone’s happy! Sweet Sophie has her window, and the builders get to see their favorite little “girl.” I love it when everyone’s happy. Well, except for Ora Zella, who didn’t get to destroy anything, but she’s young and has lots of time ahead of her.

Yay! The roofing guys are back, and they’re as perceptive as ever (Lupin is an adorable babydoll).

I think we’ll keep this a secret from our hearing challenged friend. Mum’s the word. Um, maybe we shouldn’t use Mum as the word…

Sophie is happy and Lupin gets to play princess again. All is right with the world, other than some gender-misidentification that is.

My sweet Milo (of blessed memory) was literally called a princess by a worker who came to my apartment. He really was a beautiful floof.♥

Also, very glad to see that Sophie’s People had the window installed professionally. In circumstances where the structural integrity of your house is involved, do not do it yourself unless you know what you’re doing. Watching YouTube videos doesn’t count.

I’m happy for you, Sophie.

Princess Babydoll toebeans, yay!

I love the implication that Lupin has been the subject of memory and discussion since the last time they saw him. Smitten!

Before we get too far from the remodeling, the person doing our work is a professional renovator. His resume includes owning his own flooring company, installing windows, and working for the Home Depot as the one who went in after their workers to inspect and correct the mistakes. He is very meticulous and does a really great job. We bonded with him so well when he did our windows that we get a family discount from him. He will be starting work on bathroom number one in a couple of weeks and at half the price of a quote we got.

Other work he has done for us includes patching the garage ceiling, looks as good as an interior wall, laying boards In the attic for more storage space, and replacing the vanity in bathroom two so we have one working bathroom while bathroom one is being redone.

He is one stand up guy and we are blessed to have him.

LLL. Lovely Lady Lupin.

“Return of the Builders”?

For the Princess, it’s A New Hope…

Time to turn the calendar page. It is a sweet picture with grumpy papa in one of his non-grumpy moments.

Whatever they are doing to try to fix the gray box problem is making it worse on my computer. Before, the gray stripe would scroll up as soon as the page loaded. Now when I start to scroll up, the gray stripe stays solidly in place and the comic and comments scroll behind it so that it blocks all text and images. After 20 seconds, it will allow the stripe to scroll up but it no longer disappears. It’s a PITA waiting for it to time out so I can either read a new comic or new comments.

Happy fix in panel rwo. I can’t stop smiling!

Happy cats are happy.

“But he’s a boy. Don’t they know Lupin’s a boy?”

Sorry. Couldn’t resist. Although … didn’t the Boy think Lupin was named Puck at first? And Puck was Mom-cat.

Brilliant last panel. Oh, and the second one with a beautiful window and feline of course.

Awww. It’s nice to see those guys again. And for Sophie to have her window back. I assumed this was going to lead into the mystery storyline Georgia’s working on, but for now I’m wrong

Speaking of cats and houses… OT:

The builders must have gone looking for Lupin. Because he’s on the floor above Sophie and Tommy, I don’t think that the Men would be at eye level with him naturally.

Who these maroons and why they theenks Lupin is female? Why not they see the obveeous? And whose bright idea it was to install big steenky sticky grey weendow on top of this website?

♪"When you’re smilin’, when you’re smilin’

The whole world smiles with you

When you’re laughin’, when you’re laughin’

The sun comes shinin’ through"♫

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(Written by: Daniel Gaston Ash, Glenn Derek Campling)

Aww, Sophie looks so happy! And I love that Lupin was able to reconnect with some old friends.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Elvis-Anum: Alright, we’re here at the oPyramid. It looks like there might be a room we haven’t explored down that corridor on the right. But proceed cautiously.

Lupinium: Sure. I’ll just stop at the litter room on the right first.

Elvis: Don’t take too long.

Ta-Natash: I don’t know. He took a news scroll with him.

Sometime Later

Elvis: Lupinium!

Lupnium: Okay, okay! I just got caught up reading a very interesting article.

Elvis: We’re looking for the Young Cats!

Tash: Wait, do you hear something?

Lupinium: I think it’s from down the hall.

Voices

Beatrixia: I’m going to put a pyramid on Waset Street. Iggy, your turn.

Iggy: I’m going to buy the Appian Way. Iron Glove?

Iron Glove: I passed Go, give me my two hundred silver pieces!

Elvis: There you kids are! What’s going on?

Bea: We found the hidden room! It’s got all kinds of board games!

Iron Glove: I just got enough to put a pyramid on Sand Place!

Elvis: We were worried about you!

Iggy: Sorry about that. We got carried away gaming.

Lupinium: If we hurry, we should be in time for Perfect Perch Supper.

Bea: Maybe we can take some of the games with to play later.

Tash: And later we can plan on setting up a game room here.

Elvis: Alright, but we have to have the right priorities. First thing’s first!

Bea: Perfect perch it is!

Welcome back, roofers! Your level of adoration for Lupin is wonderful and appropriate.

I used to love building arched doorways. They always presented a nice opportunity for craftmanship.

Sue Ellen directed attention to the arc starting on 6/9/2022 where the Roofers are introduced. As usual, this led me to continue on and I rediscovered 6/20/2022 where the Vaults and Vacuums (Dungeons and Dragons in the People version) game arc begins. Journeying back in time on BCN is always fun!

I’m so glad Sophie is happy with her window. And Lupin as a girl is hilarious!

Builders appreciate a beautiful cat!

Just last night I was thinking about the builders, as our own dainty white (male) cat was sitting in my window. So glad they’re back and Lupin is getting the adoration he deserves.

Sunshine, lollipops and my window,

Everything that’s wonderful is what I feel when we’re together,

Brighter than a lucky penny,

When I sit there the rain cloud disappears,

And I feel so fine just to know that you are mine.

My life is sunshine, lollipops and my window,

That’s how this refrain goes, so come on, join in everybody!

Sunshine, lollipops and my window,

Everything that’s wonderful is sure to come your way

When you’re in your window today.

Sunshine, lollipops and my window,

Everything that’s wonderful is what I feel when we’re together,

Brighter than a lucky penny,

When I sit there the rain cloud disappears,

And I feel so fine just to know that you are mine.

My life is sunshine, lollipops and my window,

That’s how this refrain goes, so come on, join in everybody!

Sunshine, lollipops and my window,

Everything that’s wonderful is sure to come your way

‘Cause I’m looking out, your looking out,

And my window is here to stay!

Looks like Sophie’s got some very special fan followers.

Lupin is a Princess? I had no idea.

Now Sophie can look out of it whenever she wants. Huzzah!

I’ve never realized Lupin is female.

OT: Feeling almost human, & Starliner

CUTE!

Silly mens

We get a little reminder that Lupin is deaf: he doesn’t know they think he’s a pretty girl, just that they admire him.

O.T. Trash Dump Kitty Update

My husband put all new windows in his mom’s house. About 22 of them. But he’s very handy.

Lupin is a girl?

♥ So sweet, and I’m so happy for Sophie … and the roofing crew!

OT a bit

Nice

Looks nice

Ha, gave me a chuckle, good work!

Wow nice!

Classic Lupin!

Wow funny!

Some random thoughts on white cats and, um, maleness. All the while trying not to trip censors. (Hey, I did it with sm*g.) So, I was thinking about my Bernie-beau and Lupin. See, if Lupin was like my Bernie, the builders wouldn’t think he was a girl because Bernie looks like an intact male, even if he isn’t. (Especially since Bernie looooves sticking his butt in people’s faces. It’s a compliment. He’s saying he trusts you enough to be his most vulnerable with you.) Apparently, when vets neuter adult males, they take the reproductively necessary sacks out while leaving the outer casing whole. (Come to think of it, Cornfields at Tiny Kittens also looked like an intact male after he was fixed as well.) They do it this way because it’s a rather complicated area and they don’t want to cut the urethra by accident. I don’t blame them. Using a catheter on a human is bad enough. Hi cat, may I stick this tube up your …. Yeah, no.

Anyway, that’s my not-so-random thoughts.

Princess Lupin. It is a unisex name, I guess.

The workers and Lupin share a professional bond of demolition.

It looks like Lupin is giving the Royal Wave, just like Her Majesty.

OT The Kiffness

OT:

I also have a floofy white boy that everyone thinks is a pretty girl. He loves to " disappear" in the sink

Lupin’s Victor/Victoria!

Does Lupin have gender dysphoria?

In this instance, with Lupin, being misgendered is of no real consequence, but in the real world it is a painful experience for trans, queer, or gender non-conforming folks. We need to remember that it is isn’t funny at all elsewhere. May all people be able to to be addressed and refered to as they wish.