Driving the Cats Crazy

I was over at Laurie's Three Dog Blog today. She was talking about how her one dog just can't stand the kitchen fan. It really drives him crazy. I got to thinking how we were driving our cats crazy this past weekend, too. Below you see Mr. Fat Tail, otherwise known as Hamilton. My cat. This fat tail photo actually doesn't relate to our driving him crazy, I'd just let him inside in the middle of the night shortly after he'd been in a scrap with something outside. Probably Diamond. See here for more about Miss Diamond.


We're driving our cats crazy this weekend because we started our Winter Project. We usually start some home improvement thing right after Christmas. Last winter we had hardwood floors put in two floors of our house.

This winter, we decided to re-tile the master bathroom ourselves. After watching many hours of rehab on HGTV, we decided, "How Hard Can It Be?" and started demolition this last Saturday morning. Hopefully those words won't come back to haunt us later this winter.

So it's officially Driving the Cats Crazy Month around here. They disappeared for the day right after we started bashing the tile from around the tub and filling trash bags with nasty old carpet from the floor. In fact, I can't recall even seeing them in there this week to investigate the changes in the room.

We got Step One done: removing the carpet and tile.


Step Two is removing the subfloor and the stoopid glue the previous rehabber put down, which may take more than one more Saturday Morning to complete. Then we move on to Step Three: putting in the Concrete Backer Board. All of this required new tools. (Don't you love a job that needs new tools?) And I'm pretty sure we will be driving the cats crazy and into hiding on many more Saturday Mornings to come.

Warren got a little "crazy" himself toward the end of the morning. But we finished Step One before noon and we're committed now...oh boy...