Fashion Laur & Puzzle Cats

February 12, 2014 Timothy Price9 Comments

Since the dance room/photo studio is still full of stuff from our reorganizing, I had to get a shot of Laurie in her cute outfit of the day as she was literally ready to step out the door. The cats were all stacked up like a puzzle on me when I woke up, and the house was so cold that after some effort to extract myself, the cats stayed in place locked together. Even Mama Manx, who is always spring loaded, and normally jumps off the bed from my slightest movement, held firm on the edge of the bed waiting for the heat to come on.

Wet Spot

February 7, 2014 Timothy Price7 Comments

There was a wet spot on the carpet in the office this morning, but no signs of a leak in the ceiling. As the wet spot spread, we finally pulled up the carpet to find a combination of plaster, spackling, and 1/4 in masonite on the slab. I started pulling up the wet masonite and chipping up the moist spackling and discovered a 2 inch piece of pine that had been cut into a circle to cover a drain in the floor. We were speculating a sewer line froze and water backed up through the old drain, but then we noticed that while the top of the pine was soaking wet, the underside of the pine was dry, which suggested that the water did not come up through the old drain. I continued to chip back the plaster and spackling until I found dry edges all around the wet spot. The source of the water remains a mystery among puzzling evidence, but we’ll see if we have standing water on the chipped up floor in the morning.

RX-8 on Ice

February 6, 2014 Timothy Price9 Comments

We had a light snow most of the day, which left a dusting of snow on top of a hardened layer of thin ice that was not much fun to scrape off the windshield and windows. After 40 minutes on the road, I stopped at the post office in Corrales to pick up the mail, and noticed that the ice and snow stuck on the hood was only a little wind-streaked.

Behind Bars

February 4, 2014 Timothy Price9 Comments

As sad as this puppy looks behind bars, she really has a good life!

Cat Help in the Catio

February 3, 2014 Timothy Price16 Comments

Work continues on the catio. We started preparing the old cement slab for resurfacing on Saturday, but then we discovered we needed to rent a high pressure sprayer to clean it before we put on the resurfacing cement, plus the temperatures are supposed to stay above 50º F for 8 hours after the new surface is applied. Since the temperature only got into the 40’s over the weekend we decided to prepare surfaces for painting.

The first photo is Laurie preparing to wire brush the French windows so I could paint them. In the second photo, she is telling Rosencrantz and Guildenstern what they could do to help. The third photo shows Guildenstern supervising Laurie. He had a lot to say about our work, so much so, that it wore him out and he had to take a break (fourth photo). The French windows and door had not been painted in 22 years. The ivy had grown up on them which marked and pulled off paint in various places, so I spent a good part of the day painting the windows and doors with a very good, “stain killer” primer. The last photo shows Laurie standing by the freshly primed windows.

As I have mentioned before, we live in a cold spot — the reason Laurie was dressed in layers of warm clothes to work on the catio. We went to a dinner party last night in Albuquerque. When we left the party at a little after 10:00 PM, the car showed the outside temperature was 47º F. When we got home 20 minutes later, the temperature at our house was 26º F. We live about 10 miles north and west as the crow flies, and about 700 feet lower than the part of Albuquerque we attended the dinner party, yet we were 21degrees colder.

Let a Sleeping Cat Lie?

February 1, 2014 Timothy Price22 Comments

Rosencrantz was so cute sleeping in, that I had to do a photo. I got only one shot of him sleeping before he kitty-sensed my camera, woke up, and looked around a bit disoriented. He was definitely unhappy with me disturbing his bliss by taking a photo of him while he was sleeping.

WAHGURU Hover Car

January 31, 2014 Timothy Price1 Comment

Lexus with a WAHGURU plate hovering while being serviced.

Waiting on a Waffle/Breakfast with Guildenstern

January 29, 2014January 29, 2014 Timothy Price2 Comments

I had to get out my 17mm, super-wideangle lens to get a photo of Beaker impatiently waiting for the waffle that’s in the toaster oven. You can see the tips of his wings are a little blurry because he is fluttering them in anticipation. Guildenstern got up on the table, flopped himself down and waited to see what Laurie was having for breakfast. He wasn’t too sure about either the granola or the coffee.

WTFB

January 27, 2014 Timothy Price10 Comments

Waffle Time For Beaker (WTFB). While I was heating up a waffle in the toaster oven, Beaker stood on the edge of his shelf impatiently watching the waffle through the glass door on the oven. When the waffle was done, Beaker tore off a piece and ate it on the edge of his shelf not bothering to take it to his food dish like he usually does. Even though he loves waffles, he will not eat them cold. They either need to be straight off the waffle iron, or toasted.

I finished putting up wire around the new roof on the catio, so now it’s reopened for kitty business. The new roof is lower, covers a 12 X 16 feet area, and is translucent, so even in the late afternoon there is plenty of light under the roof. The top of the kitty jungle gym is now almost three feet higher than the end of the roof, so the kitties now have open space all around, and a full 360º view from the top of their jungle gym.