Sticky

Another storm is moving into the area.

The rain is pelting the air conditioner and making as much noise as it does when it hits the roof of a tin shed. The lightning flashes light up the surrounding buildings and landscape in brief moments of almost daylight brightness. The radio announcer is on and saying that the severe weather has crossed into MN from SD and he's giving out all the same "take precautionary measures" advice that he's said every weekend since I took the Lincoln out of storage 4 weeks ago.

Well, hopefully the vehicle makes it through yet another storm without taking any hail damage. It's at the mechanic's so that some thingamajig that's stuck inside the doohickey can hopefully be freed without breaking the gizmo... well, it isn't running quite right.

But I wasn't planning to blog today about my car problems.
(I might do that after they get fixed...)

So let's get to the story already, shall we?

It's about Dangit. (my cat)

I'm pleased to say that I have not caught a mouse inside the house since I put out all the traps I mentioned in the last post. Dangit caught at least one on one of his nighttime prowls, and I did get a couple in one of the live traps out in the garage, but that doesn't matter here.

What matters is... and pay attention if you have a cat... do NOT forget to close the door to block the cat from entering any rooms that have a glue trap.

Yup. You guessed it. He stepped on one.

And then he freaked because it stuck to his foot and lifted off the ground when he tried to move. He immediately began to try to shake it off, which slapped the trap along the side of his leg and also caught part of his tail.

And damn! That is some tough stuff! All of his actions took place in a matter of seconds, but to try to pry him loose wasn't nearly as quick. I seriously wondered if I wasn't pulling all the hair out and leaving him with big bald spots.

So after the cat was free from the glue trap, I realized I had a problem. Namely... he had glue all over his leg and more on his tail. Well, I've never had to be the fix-it-up chappy for something like this, so even though cats are supposed to hate water I decided to stick him in the sink and see if a little soapy water would eat off the glue.

Nope.

So then, the cat and I, we took a shower. By now I have quite a lot of glue... and cat hair... stuck to me - and I'm still doing my best to clean the cat.

Well, showering with a cat actually went way better than I anticipated. I think he may have understood that I was trying to help him... or maybe I misread him and the look he was trying for was, "If I still had claws I would use them to remove your eyeballs." Either way I think we did a really good job of getting him cleaned up. He's probably high from eating glue while he cleaned himself, but at least he's clean enough to be in the house during the rain we're currently getting.

If it clears up tomorrow the trees should pull easier, and if it doesn't I still have to paint the bathroom. (and clean glue out of the sink and shower) I went with plain white for the ceiling and a green for the walls.

"Koala Bear" is what the color is called. And like I said, it's a shade of green. I always think of Koala's as being a khaki/tan color. Guess i was wrong on that!

dirty koala bears... :)