Other entrance to Cat Walk

So this is the garage side of the cat walk. Riley is hanging out on the big toy that leads up to the cabinet opening.

You can see the access hole in the side of the old cabinet, the cat door is located on the other side of this cabinet and the outside wall and leads directly onto the cat walk.

The Cat Walk

We decided (well I decided then Craig decided to jump on board with another one of my hair-brained plans) to build a cat walk that goes from the cat pen into our garage so now the cats have two ways into the cat pen.

Just another weekend project. I have been itching to build something, although this time I think Craig did more building than me. This is on the ugly north side of our house that is pretty hidden from view luckily because it is where we hide our garbage. Every spring we have to power wash this side of the house because it gets mildewy over the winter, as you can see in the pics, that hasn't been done yet.

Here is Bud and Kelsey exploring it for the first time. We have the cat door blocked right now because it has wet silicone around it and silicone and hairy cats don't mix well, hopefully it will dry soon and we can open it up. Riley and Mittens haven't explored it yet, but we kind of knew that they would take awhile to get used to the idea, they are the skittish ones.

I still have to put shingles on the roof, but otherwise it is done. In the picture below is Kelsey sitting at the entrance from inside the cat pen. Star went down the walk once and then came back and just blocked the entrance for the longest time, after she finally went inside Kelsey decided to guard the entrance. We still have a little work to do on the inside on the garage side. They will basically come in to an old cabinet that we have emptied out so we need to make another doorway on the other side of the cabinet so they can access the cat door. I will post pics of that later.

The Jazz Police at Tula's

This is my brother-in-law (Warren Pugh) playing a solo with the Jazz Police at Tula's on Mother's Day. We had a great time, the food was good, music was great and we had fabulous weather that day, who could ask for more.

Cat Pods

Craig found these cat beds for $6 so he bought all that they had. We have been desperate to find anything to keep the cats out of our bed. Well these have worked, first time ever we slept all night without a single cat in bed with us. These are pictures of them this morning after I woke up, the first picture is from last night. Mittens is the only one of our cats that never sleeps in our bed, she spends most of her time in the garage, so she doesn't have one of these, but if that changes we will run right out and get another one.

Carina modeling

Carina did some modeling for a friend of mine who is taking photography classes. He had to do a shoot where the theme was "Rome wasn't built in a day" I think the pictures turned out great, his wife jokingly asked if I had a column, and it just happens I did have one. I bought it at Joann fabrics years ago on a really good sale and it has just been sitting in our bedroom with the Xbox on it. Carina's dress is actually a blanket of hers that I safety pinned strategically to look like a dress. It was a lot of fun!

Latest quilt

I just finished another quilt. I bought a Accuquilt fabric cutter a few months ago and this is the first quilt I have made using it. I just used some scrap fabrics I had laying around, actually I have tons of scrap fabric so it feels good to use some of it.

I quilted it using a star and loop type of design. I am really pleased with how it turned out.

Hot tub cleaning

So we cleaned the hot tub as you can see. We had to have someone come out and service it because the heater wasn't working, but now it is clean and working great. We got in it for the first time last night and it was wonderful, we both slept like logs.