glass door

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So we got new exterior doors this year. Dude’s on like a slow project of kinda sprucing up our house, which used to belong to his mother and now belongs to him after some complicated shenanigans last year that I wasn’t directly involved in. Anyway the house has been not uhh super well maintained and hasn’t at all been updated in a long time so there’s a lot to do and he’s got a plan and anyway. First thing was new doors, and a new furnace, and next year we’ll look at windows and the kitchen, and slowly we’ll get to the point where the place is actually nice. We’ll see.

Anyway. So the front and side doors of the house, we had replaced with basically-equivalent things. But the back door– so there’s a sunporch on the back of the house, which we use as a living room all summer long. And the entrance to it is an interior door from the guest bedroom. But that interior door leaks cold air all winter, something awful. So, we replaced it.

Instead of a half-glass interior door, we put in an all-glass exterior door. Quite expensive, extremely nice. Like, double glass and all that, super insulatey, bougie shit.

This means the cat could look out the window. She doesn’t understand this, and cries for us to open the door all the time so she can go sit on the porch. Dude has been trying, and trying, to get her to understand that she can look out the window there. It even gets direct sun, in the winter when the sun is this low. He put a box there for her to sit on. She keeps ignoring the box, or pushing it away so she can get to the door to cry for us to open it.

She has an identical box on his nightstand, so that she can look out our bedroom window onto the porch. This is where she sits for several hours each morning, loudly bathing herself and commenting to us every time one of us rolls over, when she thinks it’s time for us to be awake. (This is usually from 4 to 5 am, and i get up at 5:30.) So it’s not like this box is too unsteady, or too tall; she has no problem with the one on the nightstand, which is rickety now because her ass has compressed it somewhat.

Well– anyway, Dude sent me this photo this morning with the caption “I’m so proud of our dumb child”

[image description: a small gray cat is sitting on a cardboard box in front of a glass door in a room with a wooden floor. The cat is turning to look back over her shoulder and seems mildly surprised. The photo is blurry because Dude is not great at using his phone’s camera which is also not great.]