Amanda the Great by Amanda El-Dweek for May 11, 2024

Not pictured: Ric curled up asleep, not knowing a timer is running.

For shame!

I’m just glad the ticking sound didn’t come from the cake box!

An ice cream cone timer! :-)

I’m guessing you don’t want Ric on your lap when the timer goes off. Surprise! -and Band-Aids.

My mom, whose education stopped with hospital nurse’s training before WWII, took the Saturday Review because she loved the acrostic. She wrote with whatever was within reach.

Felix had to go to the Penalty Box when he misbehaved. 5 minutes after he stopped meowing to be released. He learned to go into the Penalty Box, and sit quietly for exactly 5 minutes. PB was the bathroom.

I looked up the ice cream cone timer. It’s really real and very cute.

Ric will just do it again.

I’m just waiting for someone smarter than me to come up with a REAL way to put a cat in time out. They will find a way to be entertained even in a closed box. Happy Mother’s Day to all!