Helping Mommy Decorate

CatNipped wrote:


Oh. My. Word. Christmas tree!!!! I forgot - it's been 5 years since we
had a kitten in the house (and a kitten that wasn't *nearly* as destructive
as Sammy).

Sigh. I love decorating my Christmas tree. Sigh. Well I guess you sadists
are eagerly awaiting "Decorating the Tree with Mommy", aren't you, well,
aren't you??!!! ;

Yes, indeed, we are. D

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CatNipped wrote:


Oh. My. Word. Christmas tree!!!! I forgot - it's been 5 years since we
had a kitten in the house (and a kitten that wasn't *nearly* as destructive
as Sammy).

Sigh. I love decorating my Christmas tree. Sigh. Well I guess you sadists
are eagerly awaiting "Decorating the Tree with Mommy", aren't you, well,
aren't you??!!! ;

Yes, indeed, we are. D

--
Marina, Frank and Nikki
marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi
Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/
and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki

"O J" wrote in message
...

Oh, we'd just *love* to hear about that one. Do you have enough
nerve? Just imagine -- trying to go to sleep while listening for that
big CRASH in the dark

Heh heh heh,
O J

Yep, trying to decorate a tree with Sammy "helping" will probably be very
interesting - I guess I should go and invest in lots of plastic ornaments.

Nope about the crashing tree. I had a solution to that last year (Jessie
may not be as destructive as a kitten, but she dearly loves to climb trees).
I got a 3'x3'x3' cardboard filled with books that still weren't unpacked
from our move to the new house. I taped this securely shut with duct tape.
[A box of books is about the heaviest thing I know of!!] Then I used almost
a whole roll of duct tape to tape the metal tree stand (the kind with the
screws that screw into the bottom of the tree trunk - screwed down *really*
tightly) to the top of the box. Then I just draped a very large Christmas
tree "skirt" around the whole thing. You couldn't push that thing over with
a forklift!!! Another benefit was that there was *plenty* of room "under"
the tree for lots and lots of grandbaby presents!! ;

Hugs,

CatNipped

"O J" wrote in message
...

Oh, we'd just *love* to hear about that one. Do you have enough
nerve? Just imagine -- trying to go to sleep while listening for that
big CRASH in the dark

Heh heh heh,
O J

Yep, trying to decorate a tree with Sammy "helping" will probably be very
interesting - I guess I should go and invest in lots of plastic ornaments.

Nope about the crashing tree. I had a solution to that last year (Jessie
may not be as destructive as a kitten, but she dearly loves to climb trees).
I got a 3'x3'x3' cardboard filled with books that still weren't unpacked
from our move to the new house. I taped this securely shut with duct tape.
[A box of books is about the heaviest thing I know of!!] Then I used almost
a whole roll of duct tape to tape the metal tree stand (the kind with the
screws that screw into the bottom of the tree trunk - screwed down *really*
tightly) to the top of the box. Then I just draped a very large Christmas
tree "skirt" around the whole thing. You couldn't push that thing over with
a forklift!!! Another benefit was that there was *plenty* of room "under"
the tree for lots and lots of grandbaby presents!! ;

Hugs,

CatNipped

"O J" wrote in message
...

Oh, we'd just *love* to hear about that one. Do you have enough
nerve? Just imagine -- trying to go to sleep while listening for that
big CRASH in the dark

Heh heh heh,
O J

Yep, trying to decorate a tree with Sammy "helping" will probably be very
interesting - I guess I should go and invest in lots of plastic ornaments.

Nope about the crashing tree. I had a solution to that last year (Jessie
may not be as destructive as a kitten, but she dearly loves to climb trees).
I got a 3'x3'x3' cardboard filled with books that still weren't unpacked
from our move to the new house. I taped this securely shut with duct tape.
[A box of books is about the heaviest thing I know of!!] Then I used almost
a whole roll of duct tape to tape the metal tree stand (the kind with the
screws that screw into the bottom of the tree trunk - screwed down *really*
tightly) to the top of the box. Then I just draped a very large Christmas
tree "skirt" around the whole thing. You couldn't push that thing over with
a forklift!!! Another benefit was that there was *plenty* of room "under"
the tree for lots and lots of grandbaby presents!! ;

Hugs,

CatNipped

In article ,
wrote:

On 26 Sep, Enfilade wrote:

---------------------snip----------------------
Let's not get started on the Yule tree which is utterly barren in the
bottom 1/3, since anything hung there is knocked right off again by
bad bitties....
---------------------snip----------------------

When we were introducing our new Lady Jane Grey, who had been confined
to one of the spare bedrooms for a week, to our cat of some years,
Misty, and the rest of the house, it took five minutes to realize that
we'd never have a decorated Christmas tree again.

The first thing she did was head straight for the tree, the second was
to start eating a piece of tinsel, and the third was to hide under the
couch. By the time I got her out, I had to retrieve twelve inches of
a tinsel strand from the mouth, throat, and intestines of an
uncooperative cat. It's a good thing we had bought the eighteen inch
size tinsel.

Now our Yule tree goes on the porch.

My ex and I argued whether or not to have a Yule tree in the house. We
generally agreed that Clifford (RB) would attempt to climb any
interesting new object, especially with interesting climbing features.

It would have been one thing if, to borrow Christian symbolism, he were
content merely to be the Cat of Bethlehem at the peak. Unfortunately,
Yule trees are flexible, increasingly so as the trunk thins. With 16 or
so pounds of muscular cat at the top, I had every confidence that the
tree would bend with his weight and do one of the following:

1. Fall over.
2. Break
3. Bend, and then become a cat-a-pult.

In article ,
wrote:

On 26 Sep, Enfilade wrote:

---------------------snip----------------------
Let's not get started on the Yule tree which is utterly barren in the
bottom 1/3, since anything hung there is knocked right off again by
bad bitties....
---------------------snip----------------------

When we were introducing our new Lady Jane Grey, who had been confined
to one of the spare bedrooms for a week, to our cat of some years,
Misty, and the rest of the house, it took five minutes to realize that
we'd never have a decorated Christmas tree again.

The first thing she did was head straight for the tree, the second was
to start eating a piece of tinsel, and the third was to hide under the
couch. By the time I got her out, I had to retrieve twelve inches of
a tinsel strand from the mouth, throat, and intestines of an
uncooperative cat. It's a good thing we had bought the eighteen inch
size tinsel.

Now our Yule tree goes on the porch.

My ex and I argued whether or not to have a Yule tree in the house. We
generally agreed that Clifford (RB) would attempt to climb any
interesting new object, especially with interesting climbing features.

It would have been one thing if, to borrow Christian symbolism, he were
content merely to be the Cat of Bethlehem at the peak. Unfortunately,
Yule trees are flexible, increasingly so as the trunk thins. With 16 or
so pounds of muscular cat at the top, I had every confidence that the
tree would bend with his weight and do one of the following:

1. Fall over.
2. Break
3. Bend, and then become a cat-a-pult.

In article ,
wrote:

On 26 Sep, Enfilade wrote:

---------------------snip----------------------
Let's not get started on the Yule tree which is utterly barren in the
bottom 1/3, since anything hung there is knocked right off again by
bad bitties....
---------------------snip----------------------

When we were introducing our new Lady Jane Grey, who had been confined
to one of the spare bedrooms for a week, to our cat of some years,
Misty, and the rest of the house, it took five minutes to realize that
we'd never have a decorated Christmas tree again.

The first thing she did was head straight for the tree, the second was
to start eating a piece of tinsel, and the third was to hide under the
couch. By the time I got her out, I had to retrieve twelve inches of
a tinsel strand from the mouth, throat, and intestines of an
uncooperative cat. It's a good thing we had bought the eighteen inch
size tinsel.

Now our Yule tree goes on the porch.

My ex and I argued whether or not to have a Yule tree in the house. We
generally agreed that Clifford (RB) would attempt to climb any
interesting new object, especially with interesting climbing features.

It would have been one thing if, to borrow Christian symbolism, he were
content merely to be the Cat of Bethlehem at the peak. Unfortunately,
Yule trees are flexible, increasingly so as the trunk thins. With 16 or
so pounds of muscular cat at the top, I had every confidence that the
tree would bend with his weight and do one of the following:

1. Fall over.
2. Break
3. Bend, and then become a cat-a-pult.

"Howard Berkowitz" wrote in message
...

It would have been one thing if, to borrow Christian symbolism, he were
content merely to be the Cat of Bethlehem at the peak. Unfortunately,
Yule trees are flexible, increasingly so as the trunk thins. With 16 or
so pounds of muscular cat at the top, I had every confidence that the
tree would bend with his weight and do one of the following:

1. Fall over.
2. Break
3. Bend, and then become a cat-a-pult.

LOL! I think Sammy would love that ride!!!

Hugs,

CatNipped

"Howard Berkowitz" wrote in message
...

It would have been one thing if, to borrow Christian symbolism, he were
content merely to be the Cat of Bethlehem at the peak. Unfortunately,
Yule trees are flexible, increasingly so as the trunk thins. With 16 or
so pounds of muscular cat at the top, I had every confidence that the
tree would bend with his weight and do one of the following:

1. Fall over.
2. Break
3. Bend, and then become a cat-a-pult.

LOL! I think Sammy would love that ride!!!

Hugs,

CatNipped