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Then after breakfast the usual hop into town with Bramble for the weekend food.

Later, in my break from “electronics”, I decided that too much time was being spent with the back door wide open. Bramble likes to go outside now and then but deciding when she should come back in isn’t easy. I usually leave the back door ajar to keep the warmth in but she pushes it wide open when she comes back inside. So, enough is enough.

We did talk about having a dog door initially but decided against it then. Now is the time and as the back door is solid cedar it’s not difficult to make an appropriately large hole at the bottom. By taking the door off, turning it upside down, marking the edges and carefully using the chainsaw one can quickly have quite a neat hole for the door. By looking at the specifications for dog doors in Mitre-10 I knew the size to make the hole. It’s a pity that the chainsaw leaves such rough edges but not having anyone here to help I couldn’t use my table saw – the door is just too heavy. Anyway, once the dog door is fitted the edges don’t show. And if Karola really doesn’t like it – or more likely, if Bramble refuses to understand how to use it – we can always get a replacement door, no real harm done. A good project to finish this weekend.

Well, this might have been going through my mind but I had a better idea. I’ve bought and fitted a door closer – low cost, fitted in 30 mins and it seems to do the trick. I’ve set it up so that the door gently swings to but stops just short of actually locking. Bramble uses it already. The door starts off closed except for a crack, she comes in, it closes back to “just a crack” behind her. And again, if Karola is not amused there’s five screws to take out and repair and it’s back to where it was.

Searched high and low in the cottage and the homestead but couldn’t find the multiple address books Karola used to have around so not sure I could help much with the phone numbers she wants.

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