"No tree climbing allowed in the house!!"

We've had a hard time trying to get around to posting these last few days because Mom's making us clean up a little bit of a mess 'we' made at home.  Not pointing fingers (since we really don't have any), but 'someone' decided the other day that they needed to climb Mom's skinny pencil tree she has in the den!  It was a real mess and hard to clean up since it's so tall, and we're - well - we're CATS!

It was kinda funny when Mom got home because she petted us, looked through the mail, and walked straight through the den on the way back to her room to change clothes and didn't even see anything was different until she came back up the hall.  As soon as she saw it, she said, "UH OH!!  WHO did this??  We don't climb trees in the house!!"  We had already decided we weren't going to tell on each other, but since no one else was at home that day, and Mom's kinda smart, she figured it out!

It was hard gettin' that tree set back up and filling it back out where there was a big gap where it looked like 'someone' tried to climb it (!!).

Here's the mess we made:

And here's the hole we've been having to fluff back out:

We have to climb the tree to do it, so we're not sure exactly how Mom thinks we're supposed to do that without making the hole bigger, but we're doing our best.  Hopefully that will be good enough!

What has been most unsettling about all of this was getting two BIG wooden cats that she has to stand back up!  They got knocked over when they tree fell.  The are REALLY tall compared to us, and those EYES scared us to death!  We knew they probably didn't like laying face down unable to help themselves for that long, so we didn't know what to expect!  The looks on their faces didn't seem too amused!

We think we might have learned our lesson on this, but we can't be too sure.  Sometimes we forget...

We need to get back to fluffin' that tree out, so we need to go before Mom catches us on the computer again.  We'll write more soon!