Unruly Cats

What's one to do with an unruly family? Puck and Rosencrantz were both out of line today, apparently due to all the work I'm doing on the house. 

Puck decided he didn't like the reorganization of the armory I did yesterday in order to make room for the freezer. He knocked a bin of brass on the floor, knocked over my music stand, and threw a hammer across the room, knocking over several magazine holders that hadn't made it back into the shelves. I was ready to put him outside for life, but Laurie saved him — he's still lurking around plotting more damage.

Rosencrantz wasn't anywhere to be seen at 5:00 pm when we got the other cats in. I walked around calling him, walked down the road and back and still no Rosencrantz. Laurie and I walked down the road again in the dark calling, but he didn't come. When we got back to the house he was waiting for us by the deck. Once inside, Laurie noticed he was wet on his shoulder and tuffs of fur were coming out, then she found a claw embedded in his fur. After a through going over, we didn't find any puncture wounds, but he was definitely out fighting instead of coming in when he was supposed to.

I spent most of yesterday reorganizing the armory in order to make room for the freezer. The reorganization involved emptying two shelf units and taking them down, then emptying to safes, moving them over and putting everything back into them. Then I cut down one shelf and rehung both shelves. This morning I set up the electricity for the freezer, emptied it, moved it from the kitchen to its new space in the armory, leveled it, and put everything back in it by 10:30 am. Not to bad for me these days. Amazingly enough, I didn't break anything in the process of moving the freezer, but there are tracks on the floor from the dolly I used to move it — at least they mark a nice path from the kitchen to the freezer.

Now we have to see if we can find the metallic wallpaper we used behind the other shelves when we remodeled the kitchen in 2007; then I will build shelves where the freezer was. Once I'm done, I'm sure Puck won't approve, and it will probably make Rosencrantz want to go out and fight some more.