Bathroom Renovation, Part IV: Interlude

The bathroom renovation is nearly behind us now and only a few more changes are needed to polish the room off. There was an unanticipated complexity in many of the tasks but things progressed on schedule and we weren’t ever derailed for long. Before offering the last piece showing the completed room with newly-installed light and mirror, I want to show a few pictures of a funny phenomenon that occurred during construction.

Cats are very finicky creatures. They’re certainly curious and enjoy exploration but they seem to carry strange neuroses. For instance, our cat, meep!, was intent on spending time with us during renovation but refused to stand on any unexplained surface. Take this picture, for instance:

meep!er refuses to step on the concrete.

She’s watching our work from the carpet’s edge in the office. In this shot she’s moved herself to the spare bedroom, where she can get a better view of our work, but again won’t touch the unfinished floor.

You might think that this represents her preference of soft surfaces, but note how she won’t touch a towel we’ve laid down to hold tools:

meep!on the stairs. — meep! avoids contact with a towel, despite having only a four inch surface on which to cram her body.

There was one time that we caught her moving from the stairs to the office or bedroom, but she slipped by like ice on a griddle. Capturing that happening was like getting Bigfoot on camera:

The cat is rarely seen on concrete. — meep! streaks from stairs to office

I feel like I waste a lot of mental energy trying to psychoanalyze this cat’s behavior. There’s no pattern to her strange choices of places to perch. You might think that she’s just choosing carpet over anything else. Then how would you explain her proclivity for sitting on 8.5×11″ pieces of paper that rest on the ground? She’ll curl her little body up onto the sheet to seemingly avoid letting even a single hair touch the carpet. Inexplicable.

There is one area she does love, though, and that’s her Jiffy Pop fur hut. This was re-gifted to her from Will and Tiffany’s cat, Kosmo. Kosmo wouldn’t be caught dead in this thing but meep!sley can’t live without it. And once I placed a small 20W warming pad underneath it, she wouldn’t get out for hours and hours.

Kosmo's fur hut being warmed and enjoyed by meep!er. — meep! + fur hut + warmer = catatonia

Next part: conclusion!

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