Current mood:

industrious

Too much spring cleaning going on.
My hands are still sore after the projects I finished yesterday. First one up was removing the old caulking from the bathtub, soap holder and around the window frame that's in my shower. (I still think having a wood frame window in the shower is stupid, the finish on it is all worn off.)

Anyway, I had to use a flat screwdriver to chip away at the old stuff just to get it off. Apparently it wasn't peeling, cracking and moldy enough to come off easily. Then under that, there was some of the tile grout that wasn't very smooth under it and I chiped away at that to make a more smooth surface. The shower wall is completely tiled....amazing we still managed to keep the grout white in a 20+ year house. It was a trial squeezing out white caulk from a large pump so that you had just enough and not have it ooze all over the place. I don't know how many damp paper towels I used just to clean up all the oops'. I didn't get any on my clothes or anywhere else there isn't supposed to be sticky silicone goo. But my hands were a mess and it recommended to use mineral spirits to take it off. Why the heck would I have a supply of that in my house? Goof Off worked just as well.

Second project was repairing the cat scratching post. When we bought it, it was covered with green carpet. The cats shredded the carpet completely off the post and left the carpet alone on the base and the top level. I fixed it the first time by winding sisal rope around the post with a staple gun. The same two cats have successfully shredded that rope off the post in a heap at the bottom. So it was time to get more rope and a bigger staple gun. So it's a new scratching post now, and maybe the cats will leave the furniture and carpeted stairs alone. Whoever puts carpet on a scratching post is insane! The cats just think that clawing carpet is ok, no matter where it is in the house. I just have to fix the other scratching post now, they took the carpet off of that one too.