Excess Hair!

Hair!!  Hair has been a serious problem for the last few months.

It is EVERYWHERE!! I am pretty sure it is not mine. It seems to be coming from the two hairballs that run around here.

I decided some changes were in order so I purchased two things. Yes, this is my retail therapy at work!

The first was a vacuum. The Proscenic P8 Cordless Stick Vacuum had good reviews so I took a shot. I am very pleased with it. It does a good job pickup up stuff, is light, and has good battery life. Yes, I vacuum my bed spread, the couch, the tile, the cork flooring – everything!   The ‘clean-out’ is very simple and clean. Simply pressing a button causes the bottom of the container to swing away allowing all the junk to just fall out. It is best if you are holding it over a trash can! 🙂  Regardless; it is very simple!

The second item? A pet brush. Again, reviews are the answer and the FURminator Short Hair deShedding Tool ranked pretty high.

It has a little button that presses out the fur it has caught so is very easy to clean. Best of all, the bus boys love it too!! I let them give it a good inspection and then put it to work. Now they see me pick it up and they sprawl out on the floor for me to give ’em a good going over!

Between the big handful of hair that the FURminator extracts each day and the big hairball that falls out of the P8 vacuum after each run – the house is not looking too bad these days! Of course, my clothes still have hair all over them… I need another trip to Amazon!

On a similar vein, the boys have developed quite a skill. They are able to completely unroll a roll of toilet paper and transform it into a big pile of paper machete on the floor in less time than it takes me to notice what they are doing and run them off.

As you can see here – Buzz doesn’t even attempt to hide his guilt.

Woody, on the other hand, has the “What?? Me??” look down pat.

To make their task a little more challenging, I have invented a “toilet paper roll lock.” Patent is pending so don’t get any ideas.  Yes, the photo is of a roll that has been unrolled and then manually rolled again – by ME – of course!

As long as I remember to re-install the lock after I am thru with my business, the bus boys have been unable to transform a roll of paper so it is clearly working!