Baseball, Hot Dogs, Key Lime Pie, and Cat Pee

[billroper]

bedlamhouse and ladyat were led astray by Mapquest which sent them through the center of Chicago on their way to our house. As a result, they were late getting here and we missed seeing the top of the first inning at Wrigley yesterday, during which the Brewers scored four runs on their way to a 13-4 victory. I still blame Sutton, although I'll give Mapquest an assist.

After the game, we collected Katie from our neighbor's daughter who was babysitting, grabbed some dinner, and headed home for conversation and eventual collapse. Bill and Brenda had to leave at 7 AM (while we were still asleep), so we had a fairly normal Sunday, save for time spent in the basement cleaning up the Bilbo adventures that had eaten through one of the vent pipes in the heating system.

Lenny is coming tomorrow to replace the wrecked pipe. We've thrown out a bunch of stuff. And I'm not sure what we're going to do about the dry wall...

Comments

[carolf.livejournal.com]

Sheesh!

Next time, meet them at Wrigley, Bill! (So I give you an assist
credit, too!)

[pay no attention to the green-eyed poster in the corner]

[billroper]

Well, you have to consider that parking around Wrigley would have cost $20 or more and the Suttons were staying at our house...

[starmalachite.livejournal.com]

Re Bilbo's unfortunate adventures: Nature's Miracle (http://www.petsmart.com/global/product_detail.jsp?ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=2534374302023690&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302033673&PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524441813185) is your friend. It can take more than one application, but I've had very good luck with it. Not sure how it would work on drywall, but a real estate columnist in my local paper reports that repeated soakings even remove cat pee odor from concrete. Good luck.

[carolf.livejournal.com]

They also have another product to use on hairballs and other
oral excretions. It's a powder, rather than a liquid, working
by soaking up the mess, so you can pick it up with a paper towel
or such. Takes out odor, and much if not all of the stain.

[daddy-guido.livejournal.com]

You're screwed on the drywall - just cut out the damaged section, and replace it. It will take far less effort to just do that now than to try 10 other things and wind up havign to do it anyway.

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't seen the drywall, but Guido's almost certainly right.
Just replace it.

And electrify that ventilation grate, while you're at it.

Sam Winolj