05/13/2022 – Some Questions, Some Answers

Oh geez, Mom! Don’t bore my readers with more questions and answers. They’d rather hear me tell a story, I’m sure. Once upon a time, there was this magnificently magnificent gray and white tuxedo cat named Tessa who had a gloriously glorious white paw and . . .

Not today, Tessa. We have questions and by golly, we’ve got answers.

1 – Someone asked why we put past year’s blog post links at the bottom of each post when we don’t post every day of the week, leaving many years with no post.

Good question and thank you for noticing! We do know of one person who is annoyed by that, the lack of links on each day for every year, but that person doesn’t blog, doesn’t post, doesn’t comment, except when passing through the aisles at the assembly warehouse Mom used to work at. So, does that count? We’re pretty sure they’re still annoyed by it. So why do it? Hmm, self validation? A big ol’ arm-straining pat on the back for blogging for over twelve years? Perhaps the next question might shed more light on the topic.

2 – A couple of someones asked if we borrowed/stole the idea of posting links to previous years’ blog entries from another cuter and way more popular cat blog.

Yep, blatantly stole the idea because it’s a darn good one! Did we give them credit? No. Our bad. We do keep a permanent link to them, though. Is that good for anything? We probably could have done better. If it helps, we’ll hang our heads in shame for a couple of hours.

3 – You haven’t said anything about house painting lately. We hoped to see photos of the change. Did you give up?

Give up? Mom rarely ever gives up. She gets intensely irritated by half-finished projects, especially big ones like repainting every room from top to bottom.

But the truth is, after our upstairs shower leak blew a hole through the downstairs living room ceiling, bubbled up the freshly painted wall, and soaked the neighboring bedroom carpet/subflooring plywood, she lost all motivation to go any further. She says, until the shower/bathroom/drywall/ceiling/flooring is fixed AND repainted by someone other than herself, she’s not going to bust herself getting back to it.

Honestly, it’s enough just to come home every day after working 12-hour shifts and have to look at the state of things in disarray. It’s hard being a clean freak with this going on. Today marks day 74 since the leak was noticed. Just this past Monday, the actual leak itself was finally repaired and finally, restoration work can begin. On the construction company’s schedule, of course. Maybe sometime in June.

On the other hand, you can see the almost-white-but-not-white cream paint color on that once freshly painted wall, and we still like how it looks next to the true white ceiling and the ash blue of the “feature” wall. It’ll be pretty again some day.

And someday, we’ll let Tessa tell her story of her glorious white paw. Maybe sometime in June.

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A Colehaus Cats flashback:

2021 – No post
2020 – What’s That Wednesday
2019 – That time of year
2018 – No post
2017 – No post
2016 – Good Luck Friday
2015 – Not So Wee Wednesday
2014 – No post
2013 – The Playboys
2012 – No post