Moody Meow

Liberal, lunatic lassie, with mood swings and foot-in-mouth syndrome

Beagle-gates change the world

Posted on | November 3, 2008 | 1 Comment

The butterfly, or beagle-gate, effect rocked our house this weekend. It was the culmination, in my opinion, of our never ending fight with the poorly placed counters and two rooms with more useless space than necessary. Because our house was a flip, many things were overlooked, you know, like an actual plug for the fridge, or flat floors, cabinet drawers that open without hitting the cabinet closest to its left side. When we moved into the house, the refrigerator was in the “dining area,” but that area was loosely defined because there is no wall, just a change in the floor from tile to wood. We moved the fridge into the sunroom in the back of the house, next to the door for the basement and the kitchen. But there was no plug in that corner. Instead, we let an extension cord lay on the floor, ready to be tripped upon in the doorway to the basement. I’m telling you, the options were slim.

This tale has a second element —- beagles. Our cat box is in the basement, with the door constantly ajar for Voodoo and Valentine. The cats also like playing hurdles, jumping over our shitty babygate in the middle of the night, but that’s another issue. Then D and I have to come up and down the stairs for laundry or cat box duty, unlock the gate and watch for the dogs so they don’t dash downstairs. D’s solution – one of those nifty gates that install on a hinge and are permanent. That way we can swing the gate closed behind us, lock it, and the beagles (Puck) can’t come downstairs. Great idea. Except the cord for the fridge, which when hanging down in the doorway, kept our new gate from shutting.

So we moved the fucking thing all the way in the back of the sun room.

There’s another problem there. I stored my elliptical machine in the sun room. With two desks in the dining room (my office) I didn’t have room for a ginormous piece of exercise machinery. Solution? Take one of the desks downstairs. We are now storing the 2nd desk with all the other “I should do something with this but it will have to wait until we get a bigger house” stuff. Then we moved my desk over so the elliptical machine fit at the window without juttig out in the middle of my office area.

So all in all, we moved – a fridge, a table, a baby gate, two desks, and an elliptical machine all for one little gate.

And the house looks 100% better.

Category: Everyday

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One Response to “Beagle-gates change the world”

  1. Claire
    November 4th, 2008 @ 11:10 am

    I really want a sunroom – the doggies would love it.

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