and how.

our conversation about the wisdom of using a glass jar as a weight:

Me: "What if Josie jumps in the middle of the ceiling blanket? The jar and bricks will fall on our laptops."

striatic: "She isn't THAT dumb."

Me: "Are you sure about that?"

Five minutes later....CRASH! Broken glass everywhere. Thankfully no people, cat, or laptops were harmed.

Yeowch.

the worst part is that it was actually a pretty awesome fort.

It had to be taken!

that it wasn't Josie being dumb, merely Josie realizing that you'd have nothing else to do but play with her sans laptops.

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well, the laptops were not in the fort at the time. We were planning to bring th in but had not yet done so.

and yes, she was displaying some less-than-adequate thinking skills. She first jumped on a box that was supporting a corner of the fort.

That was fine. If she had stayed there, it wouldn't have been a problem. The problem occurred when she decided to walk --not jump, but walk

Into the unsupported middle of the ceiling blanket. I saw it happening and couldn't stop her quickly enough.

She put one paw out, put weight on it, clearly recognized it was supporting her weight. But instead of pulling back, she just kept walking.

Sorry, was not supporting her weight.

She walked right out into the middle of the ceiling blanket.

Put the ends of the blanket under the chair feet, then weight the folded over part with books. (I use barstools to make mine)