Those of us who live with cats understand the difficulties felines present when it comes to attempting certain tasks.
For example, wrapping presents. There will be step marks and a cat-shaped imprint in the paper and hair in the tape. When painting with a roller pan, there will be paw prints to scrub off the floor.
This comes with having a cat. It人妖色情片檚 the price for feline companionship.
A toll we pay often.
The old warehouse Don and I are restoring has three floors. We presently live on the middle, which will eventually become retail space, while we fix the top level, which will one day be our home.
The top floor currently has no glass in its windows, so to keep birds out and cats in, we stapled screens to the windowpanes. Every now and then, one of the screens will flap loose, likely with feline assistance, so we grab the staple gun and tack it back down before pigeons discover the gap and flock inside to nest.
The cats have become relentless about one window in particular, as it leads to the long porch roof of a building owned by the city, where they enjoy sunning themselves. Three times in one week, we had to staple that window shut again. The last time, it was after one of the cats slid off the roof and landed at the vet, so we were determined to fix it in a way it couldn人妖色情片檛 happen again.
We cut a bunch of long, wooden strips, and after stapling the screen in place, we attached framing all around so there was no way for them to grab an end and yank it free. We then patted ourselves on the back for finally outsmarting our cats.
A few hours later, I went out on our front porch/loading dock when I heard the most pitiful mews.
Yep. When we sealed up the window, there had been two cats on the roof.
As luck would have it, a well-timed email from reader Julie Bupp arrived in my inbox the next day that made me feel a little less bad about our experience.
人妖色情片淟ast year,人妖色情片 wrote Julie. 人妖色情片淲e had a small deck replaced at our house.人妖色情片
They hired a bargain worker but learned he couldn人妖色情片檛 handle angled cuts. Their new deck ended up askew in several places, especially once the wood began to shrink. 人妖色情片淲e now had poorly cut boards with wide gaps between them.人妖色情片
Her husband decided to fix it himself, but as soon as he removed the first board, it began to rain. He moved his supplies close to the house to wait out the bad weather, then went out later and finished the job.
Late that night, Julie was reading in the living room when she heard their cat meow to be let in, but there was no cat waiting at the deck door ... or the front door ... or the garage. She checked the bedrooms. No cat.
人妖色情片淏ack I went to the deck with our cat人妖色情片檚 calling card 人妖色情片 a small hand vacuum. Our girl loves being vacuumed,人妖色情片 Julie wrote. The cat responded to the sound of her beloved vacuum with frantic yowls.
That人妖色情片檚 when Julie realized the yowls were coming from under the deck. They had closed their cat in. Sealed her up.
They were able to pull some of the underside lattice away enough to coax the cat out and then gave her a thorough vacuuming to appease her.
Still, nothing tops the brat cat that once belonged to my mom a few decades back.
Mom had been painting their kitchen and probably wasn人妖色情片檛 thinking when she set the paint roller pan on the same small table where they fed their cat.
It wasn人妖色情片檛 long before the fat cat leapt onto the table, with all four of his big feet landing in a freshly filled pan. Mom managed to grab him before he could leap out again, and she shoved open the door to their garage and tossed him 人妖色情片 with his painted paws 人妖色情片 inside.
Forgetting that was where she parked their van.
