Kitties! Mom and I read in Brian's blog about the kittens, Macy and Maxwell digging up carpet to give to their Mom for Mother's Day. That was wonderful of them to think of 'cause carpet is so expensive. Mom started in right away about how *I* dug up OUR carpet too! HA!
Mommy worked a 12 hour rotating shift. She got up at 0325 in the morning when she was on day shifts and 1525 (3:25 in the afternoon) when she was on midnight shifts. So..when she came home at 0630 of fmids, she fed me..went straight to the 5 minute shower she took..& came out. Logged onto the computer and helped me for about 10 minutes to make a blog. Grabbed something to eat and...the barricade began just before she hit the sack about an hour after she came in the door.
Barricade? Yes. For the first weeks I came to live here, while Mom was on mids, Mom shut the hall door. I couldn't bust into her room and wake her up and so on. She had to be wary of light coming in there too, as she can't sleep with light. Nap, yes but not the sleep one needs to work. Well sir, it didn't take but a few times of blockading me out of the rest of the house that I took matters into my own paws.
When she got up one afternoon to go in on mids, after she opened the door she saw that I had tried to dig my way under the door. What in the world else wouldn't a reasonable cat do? I dug and dug and couldn't get under the door! BUT she saw my hard work and decided to lay car mats in front of the threshold before closing the door. That worked- but she felt badly.
So. She used the flat iron she uses to hold the door open, to fix it so the door was open one cat's width. Then she progressed down the hall and closed the bathroom door. (light shining into mom's bedroom from the window in there across from the bedroom) Then, the spare room door. Again too much light...She left our bedroom door open one cat's width, and laid something heavy on the backside of the door so I couldn't open it farther.
She lined the windows with aluminum foil so that it was black in the room. I got to come in and sleep with her any time I wanted to..and we lived happily ever after! It's so hard to put up and take down it stayed in place years until she no longer had to deal with shifts. That was YEARS. The brothers were invited to the great unveiling (taking down the aluminum foil) cleaning the windows, adding the only curtains in the whole house..and daylight in our bedroom! WHOA NELLY.
Mom said she had a ceiling fan installed and when the electrician went in to do it..power was turned off for his work...he was shocked to go into a totally blackened bedroom. Mom explained why. She also had to hold a flashlight the whole time. So..when she told Brian *I* pulled up carpet, I had a darned good reason. I was trying to sleep with my mom in our bed!
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