Luna in the attic space... again
 

I woke up at 4am after hearing my pager go off. When I got up to find
the pager, I noticed the AC closet door was open. Dang! That probably
means Luna or Issa climbed up and got into the attic space. I saw Issa,
but couldn't find Luna. Then I heard her cry. Dangit, I though, how many
times is she going to get caught up there? Does she have really bad
memory? Or she just can't help herself?
Anyhow, I woke up Tom and we spent the next 1/2 hour trying to get Luna
out through an opening in the screen on the eave of the roof in the
front of the house. Me standing on a chair, Tom with a flashlight
illuminating the opening.
This morning I went to the hardware store and bought a latch for that
door, which I just installed. No more lost-in-the-attic adventures in
this house!
Crazy girlie...

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On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 18:31:50 GMT, Victor Martinez
wrote:

I woke up at 4am after hearing my pager go off. When I got up to
find the pager, I noticed the AC closet door was open. Dang! That
probably means Luna or Issa climbed up and got into the attic
space. I saw Issa, but couldn't find Luna. Then I heard her cry.
Dangit, I though, how many times is she going to get caught up
there? Does she have really bad memory? Or she just can't help
herself?
Anyhow, I woke up Tom and we spent the next 1/2 hour trying to get
Luna out through an opening in the screen on the eave of the roof
in the front of the house. Me standing on a chair, Tom with a
flashlight
illuminating the opening.
This morning I went to the hardware store and bought a latch for
that door, which I just installed. No more lost-in-the-attic
adventures in this house!
Crazy girlie...

This reminds me of an adventure my father's cats once had. This was
back before I bought my house, and I was still living with my
parents. My bedroom was in the attic, which had a fan but not air
conditioning. The two cats found that my window screen wasn't
latched at the bottom, pushed it open, walked out onto the roof, and
went exploring. We found out about this at supper time, when we
heard meowing and found both cats perched on the metal awning over
the side door, peering in at us through the kitchen window. At the
time, we didn't have a ladder tall enough to reach to the roof eves,
so my father climbed up on a six-foot-tall step ladder and tried to
coax the cats to come to him. They would let him stroke them, but
retreated every time he tried to pick them up. Finally, he and I
held the ladder up to roof-level and persuaded one cat, then the
other, to step onto the ladder and be lifted down, ladder and all. I
then installed a hook and eye to hold the screen shut.

Later on, my father bought a taller aluminum extension ladder. He
left it leaning against the side of the house, and the cats soon
learned how to climb up and down it whenever they got the urge to go
roof-exploring.

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On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 18:31:50 GMT, Victor Martinez
wrote:

I woke up at 4am after hearing my pager go off. When I got up to
find the pager, I noticed the AC closet door was open. Dang! That
probably means Luna or Issa climbed up and got into the attic
space. I saw Issa, but couldn't find Luna. Then I heard her cry.
Dangit, I though, how many times is she going to get caught up
there? Does she have really bad memory? Or she just can't help
herself?
Anyhow, I woke up Tom and we spent the next 1/2 hour trying to get
Luna out through an opening in the screen on the eave of the roof
in the front of the house. Me standing on a chair, Tom with a
flashlight
illuminating the opening.
This morning I went to the hardware store and bought a latch for
that door, which I just installed. No more lost-in-the-attic
adventures in this house!
Crazy girlie...

This reminds me of an adventure my father's cats once had. This was
back before I bought my house, and I was still living with my
parents. My bedroom was in the attic, which had a fan but not air
conditioning. The two cats found that my window screen wasn't
latched at the bottom, pushed it open, walked out onto the roof, and
went exploring. We found out about this at supper time, when we
heard meowing and found both cats perched on the metal awning over
the side door, peering in at us through the kitchen window. At the
time, we didn't have a ladder tall enough to reach to the roof eves,
so my father climbed up on a six-foot-tall step ladder and tried to
coax the cats to come to him. They would let him stroke them, but
retreated every time he tried to pick them up. Finally, he and I
held the ladder up to roof-level and persuaded one cat, then the
other, to step onto the ladder and be lifted down, ladder and all. I
then installed a hook and eye to hold the screen shut.

Later on, my father bought a taller aluminum extension ladder. He
left it leaning against the side of the house, and the cats soon
learned how to climb up and down it whenever they got the urge to go
roof-exploring.

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John F. Eldredge --
PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better
than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria

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On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 18:31:50 GMT, Victor Martinez
wrote:

I woke up at 4am after hearing my pager go off. When I got up to
find the pager, I noticed the AC closet door was open. Dang! That
probably means Luna or Issa climbed up and got into the attic
space. I saw Issa, but couldn't find Luna. Then I heard her cry.
Dangit, I though, how many times is she going to get caught up
there? Does she have really bad memory? Or she just can't help
herself?
Anyhow, I woke up Tom and we spent the next 1/2 hour trying to get
Luna out through an opening in the screen on the eave of the roof
in the front of the house. Me standing on a chair, Tom with a
flashlight
illuminating the opening.
This morning I went to the hardware store and bought a latch for
that door, which I just installed. No more lost-in-the-attic
adventures in this house!
Crazy girlie...

This reminds me of an adventure my father's cats once had. This was
back before I bought my house, and I was still living with my
parents. My bedroom was in the attic, which had a fan but not air
conditioning. The two cats found that my window screen wasn't
latched at the bottom, pushed it open, walked out onto the roof, and
went exploring. We found out about this at supper time, when we
heard meowing and found both cats perched on the metal awning over
the side door, peering in at us through the kitchen window. At the
time, we didn't have a ladder tall enough to reach to the roof eves,
so my father climbed up on a six-foot-tall step ladder and tried to
coax the cats to come to him. They would let him stroke them, but
retreated every time he tried to pick them up. Finally, he and I
held the ladder up to roof-level and persuaded one cat, then the
other, to step onto the ladder and be lifted down, ladder and all. I
then installed a hook and eye to hold the screen shut.

Later on, my father bought a taller aluminum extension ladder. He
left it leaning against the side of the house, and the cats soon
learned how to climb up and down it whenever they got the urge to go
roof-exploring.

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"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better
than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria

"John F. Eldredge" wrote in message
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my father bought a taller aluminum extension ladder. He
left it leaning against the side of the house, and the cats soon
learned how to climb up and down it whenever they got the urge to go
roof-exploring.

I have a ladder leaning on the house, too. Tommy & Eli spend a lot of time
on the roof.

"John F. Eldredge" wrote in message
...

my father bought a taller aluminum extension ladder. He
left it leaning against the side of the house, and the cats soon
learned how to climb up and down it whenever they got the urge to go
roof-exploring.

I have a ladder leaning on the house, too. Tommy & Eli spend a lot of time
on the roof.

"John F. Eldredge" wrote in message
...

my father bought a taller aluminum extension ladder. He
left it leaning against the side of the house, and the cats soon
learned how to climb up and down it whenever they got the urge to go
roof-exploring.

I have a ladder leaning on the house, too. Tommy & Eli spend a lot of time
on the roof.