The side of the door that looked like this, I got to this stage today.
The other side... which looked like the first is clear of the grey.
Needs some sanding and turpentine, but it has a certain beauty even now. Not quite within sight of proper refinishing, multiple sanding sessions, stain and lacquer of some sort. Maybe next year. Right now, I have a day once in a while to do as much as I can. When the back porch isn't too hot and I can open all the windows. The doorframes are when I can open all house windows and run the fans, on a day off work, which I won't see until September.
Woke up at 0530 this morning, got up for a short while, then returned to bed. Moby hopped up on the bed, heard him taking a bath, a while later I felt his paws on my calf, and he curled up on my legs. I dozed off, until about 0630, when Eleanor hopped up and stood on my chest. I decided to go with the cats, and dozed off. Eleanor scoots off when D left for work. Just short of 0800, Moby still on my legs, I stretched a bit, and Eleanor jumps back up and lays across my pelvis. I stay there a few minutes, then shove Eleanor off, slide my feet out from under Moby - who gives me a "look" but stays where he is.
For a while, I was seriously becatted.
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"...becatted." I like that word!
D coined it independently when we moved here, and Moby became a lap cat. He considers it a natural construction. There is, however, an earlier citation via Urban Dictionary:
"becatted
Held down by one or more cats sitting or sleeping on you on a bed or in a chair.
Sorry I couldn't get up -- I was becatted.
by Shoaler October 15, 2010"
I want to scrape my windowframes, Zhoen, and have not a clue...
Of course I could google it, but I wonder--would you post photos of how you do it? What tools you're using?
(It that's too much trouble, don't bother--I'm sure it's easy enough to find out, but I like to learn from people I know.)
Fresca,
No bother, a great idea.
Almost every night our cat sleeps up against me. I too know what it means to be becatted.
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