This weekend I managed to...

[the_siobhan]

Experience a coffee cup avalanche when I opened the kitchen cupboard. Since there were glasses on the counter below the results were pretty spectacular.

Discover we have a leak in the roof by virtue of dirty water collecting inside a light fixture on the top floor.

Discover a tear in the mesh screen on the cover of Carlin's tank. We haven't been able to deter Jack from wanting to sit there, and apparently he's too heavy for it.

Find out the velvet on Axel's velvet Elvis painting isn't colour fast. I tried to clean a couple of stains and the black came right off with them. Fuck.

Get the furnace filter caught on something while I was swapping it out for a new one and hose myself down with many months collection of packed dust.

ETA Oh yeah, and our printer finally gave up the ghost. Right when I was trying to print up D's parking pass. Fortunately the permit inspectors didn't come around this weekend.


A trip to Canadian Tire is part of my lunch plans.

Comments

[jo]

I am assuming Jack is a cat?

We had that problem with Dali - he kept climbing on the cages at night (the hood thing gets too hot when it's on), but luckily the bugger didn't poke a hole through the screen. When we kept crickets in a smaller tank, however, he did manage to poke a hole through that screen, meaning we had loose crickets in the house. Not much can be done other than putting the tank somewhere where it's not as easy for the cat to jump up on top of it. I don't think Dali does that anymore, now that we've placed Sagan's tank against a wall with nothing else around it that Dali can easily climb up on.

[the_siobhan]

Yep, Jack is a cat.

I went looking online for suggestions and somebody said that cats hate having sticky stuff on their paws, so strips of anything sticky should deter them. I'm going to give that a try.

[maize]

That sounds entirely *too* exciting.

If it's any consolation, I've actually been through this one: "Discover we have a leak in the roof by virtue of dirty water collecting inside a light fixture on the top floor."

Freaked me out, it did.

[the_siobhan]

Yeah, there's nothing like snuggling on your bed with an SO and suddenly thinking, "Hey wait a minute, I'm pretty sure that light isn't supposed to be a different colour than the other ones..."