Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for July 11, 2020

I’ve got a feeling he’s got a message.

I see Jules still has his jaunty mustache as well as his scarf, leather cap and aviator goggles!.

If I found a giant bug clinging to my window screen, in the middle of the night, with thunder and lightning overhead, laughing, my only reasonable choice would be to move to Antarctica. Immediately.

Since it’s July now, it’s technically a July bug.

The big bug bugs you big time, eh?

The deafening song of the cicada. Yet another reason why the South loves its a/c.

“A general really bad sense of timing.”

I would rather have a July bug on the outside of the screen than a Christmas light bug inside the house. As much as I love them, it creeps me out if I’m lying in bed at night and look up to see one flashing on the ceiling. I have to get up, capture and release.

I lived in an area that was plagued with June Bugs. Finally figured out that the extremely ugly bugs that infested the lawn… was the cause. I then learned how to aerate the lawn in March to May!! Much less bugs in June!!

Guess the July Bug is just looking for a little romance! ;)

Time for the rolled up newspaper, Mr Man. Or a hardback book.

Perhaps, in an ironic reversal, that dreaded weapon, the No-No Spray Bottle, could be deployed against their nemesis! (And then the People could lightly mist themselves with the water while they’re at it.)

The June/July but is the one storyline that I don’t like. Hope it not extended to the following week.

My sister(transplant from FL to MA over 30 years ago) says a humid night in the western suburbs of Boston (Groton/Ayer) is when it only gets down to 68F. Here in Tampa we do not see that low temperature (20C to foreigners) from mid June to late October…… The dew point outside my house is now 74F I know the northerners suffer from the heat but it is not at all like what we have here in FL or the rest of the SE!

Two words: BUG SPRAY!

The Meese and I

Beatrix: It’s great seeing the kittens all go to their furrever homes, but I’m going to miss them.

King Elvis: We are very grateful for the work you have done here.

Beatrix: Now I must decide what I’m going to do next.

King Elvis: About that…

Queen Goldie: Bea, there are so many cats and kittens who need furrever homes. Would you be willing to stay here and teach those who need homes here in Yessiam?

Beatrix: Yes, I am!

*We all need to be loved!

And we can feel the love!

And when we show our love,

It is,

Wonderful!*

From his chyrons, Burt does not appear to be a fan of July bugs.

Wasn’t it bedtime the whole time?

He’s just looking for attention

At least it’s buzzing to get in, not out.

I see Jules is determined to get in. I wonder if this arc will carry over until next week, I’d love to see Goldie’s reaction to him.

I use a BB gun

RAAAIIID!:-o

I’m a little disappointed we didn’t get one more day of frizzy Pucky in his undershirt.

Is he shaking his fist in frustration in panel 2?

Tough call: which do I love better today? Elvis’s grandpa-style V-neck undershirt, or Burt totally making the comic with his chyrons?

I wonder what Goldie’s wearing to beat the heat.

Maybe he’s stuck on the screen

17 year cicadas are supposed to be coming out. Since our neighborhood started in 05, there aren’t any around here.

17 years ago at the place I lived, I had to snow shovel the shells off the sidewalk

The July Bug is making itself at home until at least August… or until Pretty Pucky gets him, whichever comes first. :D

This morning at around 2 AM I was awoken from a decent sleep by a particularly insistent housefly buzzing around my head, I’m one of those people who has a difficult time getting back to sleep if awoken in the middle of the night. Thankfully this time I was able to drift back off otherwise I’d be a lot more cranky.

Jules is back from his world tour and wants to share his travel tales. He went around the world in eighty days.

AND bedtime BUM BUM BUM!!!

I have cans of Raid within grabbing range in my most used rooms because I have an aversion to stomping or squashing bugs, and the unusually wet weather has forced bugs in to the house despite my tight house ringed in pesticide. The spray can of death for Jules!

OT: Karen…

LOVE the July bug! My cats would probably want to play with it or kill it and eat it. Though the one time we had a tarantula in the house, they just stood and stared at it.

Time for the big bug spray.

Today is National Mojito Day—seems to be a week for the UA crowd (Unabashed Alcoholics). I’ve never had one, but it sounds better than a piña colada.

The very odd thing is, it seems most tropical alcoholic drinks contain a fair to egregious amount of sugar or equivalent, and are often served containing ice. How can drinks containing alcohol and sugar, both or which raise body temperature, be considered “cooling,” regardless of actual drink temperature?

Perhaps the idea is to get drunk enough you don’t realize how miserable you are in the heat, humidity, and bugs.

Speaking of bugs (“Hi Jules!” Waving frantically to my aviator hero.) Consuming a lot of sweet things makes you more attractive to insects. When I gave up soft drinks, two things happened. I lost ten pounds. I got bugged by insects less. Many insects see infrared, so anything that raises your temperature, even slightly, makes you more visible—especially to mosquitoes. Sugar also makes you smell different, and any insect normally attracted to nectar will be attracted to you (also mosquitoes.) That high pitched whine you hear is not your tinnitus …

Jules seems to be an unusally long-lived July bug! I’ve not known any to amke it back for a second visit.

To the July Bug: " Not sayin’ ya’ gotta go home, but ya’ CAN’T stay HERE!! "

Evil, pure evil.

Escalate from pat, pat to FLICK!

At that size, the bugzaper looks at it and runs for the hills. Maybe a golden mouse could help.

Jules is not to be messed with.

Not to be confused with the cricket in the wall…

The hat and goggles? … The July Bug has got a ’ Rocky the Flying Squirrel ’ vibe goin’ on !! :)

He’s a social media July bug; he generates a lot of buzz!

He looks like Belushi in 1941.

I think it’s time to tell him to buzz of, on account of he’s bugging you.

All this hot weather and KITTIES! With that in mind, we’ll return to:

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof !! … (Brought to you by: The Tennessee Williams Authority!!)

It’s the CIA, dear! … We’ve been BUGGED!! " :)

Reminds me of ’ June Bug ’ by the B-52’s! … OH! … It’s just a COSMIC THING !! ;)

I can’t sing. I sound like a frog. interesting? I joined the Navy in 78 when 25. Ground Support Equipment. Not sure how interesting that is. I have a3 yr old rescue named Charlie (the fosterer called him Bronson) He has a tipped ear & nips less than he used to so I think we’re doing ok. He loves his birdie toy

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