I accomplished everything on my list yesterday. Feel pretty good about that.

There was a slight snafu in the evening with our pocket door. If you have no clue what a pocket door is, you’re missing out. A pocket door is a door that slides into a wall and is hidden when open. It basically hangs on a track and you push or pull the door along to open and close.

Ours is in our kitchen. It is used to block the entry way to our basement. Which now that we have a toddler, we use often to make sure she doesn’t go careening down the stairs. I’m actually not too worried about that, she’s pretty good about stairs right now, but we do keep our cat food dishes at the top of the stairs, and Marceline has a healthy interest in cat food.

So yesterday after grocery shopping, I left a bag of dry goods at the top of the stairs so I could bring them down into our pantry the next time I went downstairs. Towards the evening, one of our cats (Clue) was eating some food (I think…) and backed into the bag causing the groceries to tumble down the stairs scaring the cat. Clue jumped up in the air and banged into the pocket door knocking it off the track and wedging it tight in its door frame, leaving us with half an opening to walk through to get to the basement.

It took longer than I hoped to fix. I couldn’t get to the door without Marceline being interested, so I waited until she was asleep. Somewhere between the door being knocked off the track and Marceline finally being put to sleep a cat vomited in front of the pocket door – I guess they were as annoyed by the half opening as I was – and I totally stepped in it.

I couldn’t pop the door back on track. It was wedged in tight. I tried using a screw driver as leverage, didn’t work. I couldn’t move the door at all, it was stuck tight. I thought I was going to have to take the track down to fix it. After fifteen minutes of staring at the door and futile attempts to fix it, I decided to try the old ‘wiggle push pull’ technique.

I pulled on the door while wiggling it up and down and it moved slightly. I pushed the door while wiggling it up and door and it moved some more. About 30 seconds of that and the pocket door had moved enough to give me space to pull it down off the track, realign it completely and put it back on the track.

Felt accomplished after that.

Oh…. and I got a compliment on my hammock yesterday. I put it up in our front yard to lay in as Marceline plays. A lady walking her dog adn pushing a stroller said it looked ridiculously comfortable.

It has a nice view of the large tree its attached to when you stare up.

Todays ToDo:

• Clean kitchen and living room (Kitchen floor is sticky?)
• Put away laundry
• TVP Tacos for dinner
• Buy Cat Litter
• Start a new book ( I tried to start a biography of Grant, but it starts in the middle of the civil war and the writing style isn’t for me)
• Vacuum the basement carpet