mr. toolman

With school rapidly becoming a distant memory (let's ignore my final next week for the sake of argument), the past two nights have been spent doing house projects and once again enjoying each other's company by eating birthday cake and watching a rather bad mini-series on the sci fi chanel. Last night we carefully installed the baby gate at the top of the stairs. The last time we installed this gate we made a number of mistakes and spent almost two hours feeling more and more frustrated as we broke screws into our old banisters. This time we measured many, many times and completed the job in about an hour.

Tonight we (o.k., Rob... I was moving bathroom rugs around) turned to installing a cat door in the basement door. This project was anticipated greatly as for the past week we've had the door open with a baby gate that we must open and close again and again as the cats meow to come upstairs (for our company) or go downstairs (for their food and litter). The project went really well.

Here's Rob cutting a hole in our door. The saw was really loud.

Next, he installed the little door pieces around the hole.

The finished product.

Leela checks it out. The door comes with a personalized label. Very cute.