Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for February 15, 2020

We’ve had such a mild winter that the grass is still mostly green but at least it stopped growing.

Wow, I am completely lost here … ahhh … what happened to the grass/plant between panel 1 and 3? and how does Goldie’s lucky pen figure in all this? gah … my brain feels sooo tiny and sooo slow …

The mysterious life cycle of cat grass! Goldie is always curious and observant. She doesn’t sit around wondering about things. She investigates! And she looks so sharp in her outfit!

Ah yes. The mystifying mystery of the mysterious grass.

Alternate theory: the grass is haunted. O.o

If I got any grass to grow, the dogs would dig it up.

Ooh! Is Goldie left-pawed? =D If there were any signs of this before, I missed them. XD

Something is growing on here…

Yaaawn. This is like watching grass grow.

Buy some wheat or oat grains, soak them overnight and let them sprout, plant them in a shallow container with potting soil, and wait a few days. You will have cat grass at a much cheaper cost than what you would buy from a petshop.

Is Goldie wearing blue eye shadow?

She’ll solve the mystery!

Then rewrite history!

Blossom’s cat grass magically regrows itself, too! Heehee.

That’s an amazing amount of growth there. Also, Goldie has a flip phone?

How did your pen become lucky, Goldie. I, too, have a lucky pen. I got it as a graduation from HS present in 1969. It became lucky when it came time to write my first composition for Freshman Comp. at university. We had been told to expect our first compositions to receive low grades, so I was shocked when my first composition came back marked with an A-! I decided it must have been a lucky pen. I made sure to write all my compositions with that pen. I have also used it to sign all the important documents of my life. Fortunately even 50 years later, Papermate still makes refills.

I even used it to write a character sketch of Mr. Stripes, the brother of my dad’s best friend who gave it to me. The nickname was the result of an unfortunately fashion choice of his youth. He once appeared in a brand new pin striped zoot suit! The name stuck.

Beautiful Goldie, “Grazing In The Grass” with The Friends Of Distinction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UhResTVZ6s

Can you dig it?

Also, this Hugh Masekela instrumental version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxXZF60EPdM

More cowbell! lol

I love Goldie’s perplexed look in panel 3, as the cat grass miraculously becomes fresh and green again!

Okay, color me confused by today’s strip.

From The Sound of Music, some great advice

Climb every bookshelf,

Search high and low

Look on every website,

What you want to know,

Climb every bookshelf,

Read every book,

What you want you’ll find there,

You just have to look!

…..

Info at your command!

New worlds to be found!

Are just waiting for you!

Search in books all around!

…….

Climb every bookshelf,

Search every site!

Follow every clue up

You’ll find it Alright!

“Do you believe in magic?” – John B. Sebastian, US troubadour, c. 1965

Ah, the miraculous cat grass. I know far too many people toss out the cat grass when it’s nibbled down or turns yellow-brown. Hey folks, it’s a plant. It’s a perennial. Water it lightly and it’ll come back. Now if I could just get people to believe they had to reseed or resod their lawns every year I’d start up a landscaping business. Five or six clients like that and I could retire very comfortably after maybe three or four years.

I can never keep cat grass alive for more than a month to six weeks. Time to plant another pot today, in fact.

Does this mean today’s comic “passes the Bechdel test?” I mean, Goldie isn’t named…

I sat down to eat my breakfast and finish reading the comments, and now Layla’s jumped in my lap. She does this so infrequently, I never move until I absolutely have to. Lap time is always at Layla’s discretion, not mine.

I had quite a few of those “fat” pens back in the day, both fountain and ballpoint. When I worked for a major office supply chain, they would have “table top shows” where sales reps from various vendors would come in to demonstrate their products and give us free samples (this was before someone decided that this was somehow a “conflict of interest”). We got some higher end stuff as well as “economy” style. Oddly, the cheap crappy looking pens were often the ones that were more comfortable to hold, at least for me, and they also had better ink and wrote more smoothly. Just goes to show, price is not always an indicator of quality.

OT

The live feed is working great. What did we do without it?

It’s funny, but none of my cats will eat brown “cat grass” but when they’re outside (supervised visits) they’ll eat the brown lawn grass!

Since everyone is sharing about their winter: Here in Utah our winter has been rather mild, which has meant rain in the valleys and snow in the mountains for the most part. Our mountains have a lot of snow and the skiing is great!

Welcome to Hippo Day. The name “hippopotamus” comes from ancient Greek: "hippus"—horse, and "potamus"—river. So it means “river horse.” I’ve never heard of anyone riding a hippo, so I conclude that either the ancient Greeks were (a) incredibly brave, (b) had a wicked sense of humor, © insane, (d) all of the above.

Let’s see a show of hands. How many got the correct answer, (d)?

Anyone who has studied ancient Greek society to any extent should realize just how strange, in some ways alien, to modern humans they were. If you write SF, and want to create an alien culture, study the ancient Greeks. You’ll find a lot of strangeness to inspire you. And as everyone should know, a little strangeness, now and then, is a good thing.

We have faith in you, Beatrix.

Must be magical grass to revive like that. Lol. Looks like Goldie fitting right in with the crew, though I suspect Fluffasorous Rex will still harbor a grudge against her

The cat grass?! It got a BIG dose of Sildenafil, … which is JUST LIKE Chlorophyll … but completely different!! ;)

Goldie and Beatrix make a good pair. (I still can’t wait for Goldie and Tabitha to meet.)

Looks like Beatrix has a new best friend as far as the news buis is concerned.

Ah, Valentine’s Day true crime part 2:

https://youtu.be/G20sAMgs2DA