Long day at work today, for no apparent reason. Just long.
I saw via email that a package had been left for me – the replacement kitty scratching post from Felix Katnip Tree. Although I was a little dismayed at how long it took to arrive, I was glad that it had! Took it out of the box, found the little wedge you need to secure it.
The bigger part of the problem was how to get the old post out of the base. After all, it had been more than secure for quite a number of years, due to the little wedge you bang into the post’s bottom peg. I finally took it downstairs and used the vise action of the portable worktable that’s down there. I tried banging on the peg that goes through a hole in the large flat base some more. Nothing. As a different approach I put the post itself in the vise hold and tried wiggling the base back and forth and it did actually budge a bit. So I stood on the bottom of the work table and slowly twisted the base up and around and off. Whew!
Took the base back upstairs, inserted the new post and hammered the wedge into the bottom of that sucker. It’s going no where for the next number of years – no matter what the cats do to it.
Molly of course scrabbled right up to the top of it. I’ve seen other big cats leap right to the top and it doesn’t so much as wobble so it is more than secure for long luxurious scratches.
Then I went upstairs and tried taking better pictures of the new quilt. It’s tough and I’m not interested in setting up the photo lights up there. Maybe when the piecing gets underway.
I like what you’ve done with the new quilt so far – I hope there are more pictures in our future.
but of course!
Spiffing things up for Cat Herder’s Day…December 15?
I’m marking my calendar as we speak. The new scratching post wasn’t really a well-planned holiday event but these last a long long time (this is my third since starting with cats in the mid-80s) so it’s always an event. And as promised the cats went right up to perch on top of it!