Rebuilding the Garage Wall
Rebuilding the Garage Wall
As I have mentioned in several of the previous posts we really have taken on a full load of work before the fall weather turns cold. Dennis’ pickup garage has had insulation and paneling on the wall for the last twenty years. As we did an outside perimeter check we noticed that the east wall of his garage was moving off of the sill. No pre-treated lumber was used on that 50 plus years ago. In fact that part of the garage was built with cast off wooden pallets from one of the manufacturing plants here in St. James during World War II.
Our garage kitty, Honey Bunny, has always been let outside during the day and she shows up at night to be closed in for a night’s sleep in her box lined with polar fleece. In fact she has the run of the entire garage and garage porch. It’s all her territory.
We took down the wall in the garage on Monday and for four nights it was a free for all for Honey Bunny. No more curfew for Honey Bunny. The wild that was no doubt breed into her was at its peak as she came and went whenever she felt like it. We knew she came into the garage sometime during the nights as her food bowl had been tapped.
By six on the evening of yesterday (Friday) the new wall was enclosed and we could enjoy the forecast that rain was coming on Saturday. Friday night the darkness came and no Honey Bunny. I am sure while she was tripping the night’s fantastic it was a rude awakening to find the wall closed up. On a second check on her Dennis had already closed up the patio door to the garage porch. It wasn’t like he had not called for her many times. She was locked out.
Honey Bunny All Cleaned Up and Wore Out
This morning when we went out for coffee to the garage porch it didn’t take long for Honey Bunny to come trotting in like no one’s business. What a sad looking kitty. Wherever she had holed up for the night she was covered in sand burrs. I had never had her jump up on the table to be brushed as quickly as she did this morning. She took the brushing like a trooper and it took a long time before she looked her normal gray and not gray with green polka dots.
The wild that is in Honey Bunny can be tamed with a hairbrush every time.