mollymouser's Journal

PAINTED CEILINGS AND NAKED CATS
Jun 09 2009 19:27

We were sitting around the house this afternoon, trying to decide between a nap, and swimming in the pool. As we lay on our bed and pondered our options, we noticed the ceiling in our bedroom. On Saturday, we had the broken ceiling fan replaced with a newer one. The old fan was a flush-mounted (which sounds vaguely bathroom-related, but really isn't), and the new fan was drop-mounted. Anyway, because the old fan took up more space, the new fan left a semicircle of different-colored ceiling. So, we decided that we should probably use this quiet afternoon as an opportunity to do some touch-up painting on our master bedroom ceiling.

By "we", of course, I mean Ron. I don't do ladders, and no sane person would let me near a paint brush or paint for that matter. And though he got a bit paint spattered in the process, I really do think that he did a wonderful job on painting the ceiling.

As we admired Ron's handiwork, we turned our attention to yet another project.

It's summer, we agreed. It's hot, we commented. Gracie needs to be shaved! (Gracie is our 9-year-old black-and-white Maine Coon mix ... a very nice, but not terribly cooperative 22 pound long haired cat.) We had recently purchased -- but not yet used -- these really nifty purple clippers from PetSmart, and they were in the box, just crying out to be put to use.

In retrospect, shaving an incredibly fluffy long-haired BLACK cat in a room with a freshly-painted WHITE ceiliing was probably not our best choice. We seemed to have been so excited about the prospect of freeing Gracie from the summertime bondage of 5 pounds of black fur that we forgot the cardinal rule of pet shaving: FUR FLOATS.

And it floats UP.

This, of course, collided head-on with the cardinal rule of ceiling painting: WET PAINT IS STICKY.

(sigh)

Does anyone know how to get black fur off wet paint?