Project #1 du jour: Get a 2 x 4 for the cat. No, we’re not going to swing it at her, though sometimes something needs to be done, and that’s where the 2 x 4 comes in.
Hazel likes to prick at window mouldings, and she (being a standard issue cat) loves to claw. Her favorite house construction phase was before all the oak trim went up and there was plenty of exposed pine to sink her nails into.
It is likely that the 2 x 4 segments we are about to affix to the corner by the basement door, and to a wall accessible from Jeff’s dresser would not be everyone’s idea of cutting edge decor, but I’d prefer that Hazel never have to decide that hardwood is better than nothing.
Meanwhile, the new laundry tub, of pristine poly, has acquired its first layer of sewer-line back up sediment--an unidentifiable collection of black crunchy stuff which washes in with the water the drain line has rejected, and settles evenly across the tub’s surface. Somewhere below the tub, in the fittings I mucked around with in installing it, is a connection that is allowing some of that rejected water to squish its way through and form geographic patterns on the basement concrete. Fortunately (I guess) the crunch is filtered out by the pvc and makes it to the tub. I have tightened the connections as much as I can by hand, but I’m afraid the time has come to replace the 60 year old cast iron with pvc so that, henceforth, we can try to blame all ensuing back-ups on the county. We are awaiting a quote and a commitment from the plumbing guy.
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