Chores done

Rico says he and his friend Kelley were able, finally, to finish a couple of important chores:

1. Installing the cat door and training (which only took one attempt) the cat, Fafhrd, to use it.
2. Finishing the drilling of a three-quarter-inch hole through the split trunk of the maple in the front yard (with video to corroborate Rico's alibi of being all the way across the yard from the dangerous activity being perpetrated by Kelley) and pulling the two pieces back together using a half-inch-diameter threaded rod with massive washers and a lock washer and nuts on both ends.

Rico says it's good to be handy, even second-hand...