Ten Cats by Graham Harrop for November 17, 2024

I loved the poem, as usual. But apologies? From a cat?

…and isn’t it supper time?

Today is:

NATIONAL HOMEMADE BREAD DAY. I have to work. I won’t have time to bake bread.

NATIONAL BUTTER DAY

NATIONAL BAKLAVA DAY

NATIONAL TAKE A HIKE DAY

From yesterday’s comments to zippykatz (still about the Cat Who mysteries) who said, “I read all the Cat Who mysteries. I think the last few were ghost written though; not nearly as good.”

I agree. I was greatly disappointed in the final one (the last one published, that is. There was another, not published), which as I recall had no real mystery to it. I borrowed that one from the library (I got a lot of the books from the library before finding and buying my own copies) and when I returned it to the library, the librarian said that she read it and she was disappointed in it too. I didn’t think the last 2 or 3 books were bad, but they were not up the the standard of the others. It was, as someone else here said yesterday, that she was just “phoning it in.” I still had placed a hold on the final book (as did a LOT of other people – I think I was around #100 on the hold list), but that final book did not get published. I think that was right around the time that the author died. I can’t remember the name of that book. It’s been a lot of years. I wonder if I could Google that?

Another great poem.

Chesney must be ill, no way he apologized in normal mind

Precious is the light of thy returning countenance!

Chesney, is that you? Apologizing? Did you fall on your head or something?

Another great poem, and another grumpy but very cute cat!

All cats can be grumpy when they want to be…

More on the Cat Who books: this is from the Fantastic Fiction website. The author, Lilian Jackson Braun lived to be age 98, she passed away in 2011. The history of Lilian Jackson Braun is perhaps as exciting and mysterious as her novels. Between 1966 and 1968, she published three novels to critical acclaim; The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern and The Cat Who Turned On and Off. In 1966, The New York Times labeled Braun, “the new detective of the year.” Then, for reasons unknown, the rising mystery author disappeared from the publishing scene.

It wasn’t until 1986 that the Berkley Publishing Group reintroduced Braun to the public with the publication of an original paperback, The Cat Who Saw Red. Within two years, Berkley released four new novels in paperback and reprinted the three mysteries from the sixties.

Even though Braun claimed that her cats had never done anything extraordinary, her fictional cats, Koko and Yum Yum, solved crimes and delighted fans in book after book.

FREE ELDO!

Another great poem. Keep up the good work, Graham. :) Looks like Mr. Grumpy face isn’t going anywhere after all. (At least not before supper.) on another note, saw eight varied thrushes, a wren, and three chickadees while out walking today.

No kitties at 11:45 PST

Well, since it is nearly 4:00 in the morning and the strip has not updated yet, here goes my list of “holidays”.

November 18 is:

MICKEY MOUSE BIRTHDAY

NATIONAL PRINCESS DAY

NATIONAL VICHYSSOISE DAY

Home is where the heart is, or where Annie & your buddies are X

Looks like I’ll be scrolling through randoms today…

Snow Sez is cute today.

And speaking of literature, as anyone read, “Confessions of an Angel Cat” by Nic Tatiana? I glad I have stock in Kleenex!

I sincerely hope Graham is OK. The absence of both strips points to computer issues.

Sigh…not again!