I think I failed to mention that Bertram was being kept in the living room by a number of cardboard boxes, flattened and taped to the doorway. Well, that got old really quickly. Last night, after dinner with Bella at Panda Express, we stopped by Lowe's to "look" at doors. Well, shortly thereafter, we were driving away at 20MPH with a door tied to the roof of her car. We didn't think it could be done, but thanks to the rope her dad stowed in her trunk, we made it happen.
The trick with the door, you see, is it was 80 inches high. Well, the doorway is only 76 inches. After being told that you can't cut four inches off of the cheapy (i.e. hollow) doors by the "door specialist", we found a nice guy in the lumber department who did just that. Of course, we were warned that doing so would void the warranty on the door, but who needs a warranty for a $20 door?!?
I am apparently installing the door in three phases:
- hang the door, minus the doorknob
- make adjustments to the doorway to allow the door to close properly (like everything in this house, the doorway isn't quite straight), and
- add the doorknob
Right now, the door is serving its purposes: keeping lil Bertram out of trouble and allowing me easy access to the rest of the house. (Do I really want to go out the front door, around the house, and in the backdoor to get to the bathroom to pee at 5:30AM?)
Oh, by the way, as I was hanging the door, Bertram thought it was the biggest... toy... ever! Gotta love him!
Bertram is actually sleeping right now, so maybe this would be a good time for me to rest a bit, as well. Not hearing a frantic patter of playful feet on carpet is actually kind of eerie....
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