Mr. CATastrophe

Shattered and scattered to the four wild winds
My angels and my devils and a few of my friends

You got em all to dancin on the head of a pin

You make it look easy

You make it look easy

The above is the first verse of the Flatlanders song "You Make It Look Easy" - a song that keeps running in my mind when I see what happened in my rug hooking room.

So was it caused by this cutiepie?

Innocent or Guilty?

Jonesy's not talking since he was in Dad's lap at the time of the "incident"

Nope - still won't tell me if his brother is innocent or guilty...

There once was a wall in my rug hooking room with five four foot shelves filled with stuff a workroom holds - things like baskets of threads, a tub of buttons, miscellaneous glues and glue pot, paints, needles, container of pins, shoe polish, rug hooking cutter heads, misc small boxes and things to be painted or whatnot, sharpies, MASON JARS, just things in general.

The above is what is left of the wall - there are fifteen of these holes in the wall now - nothing was left hanging - the entire shelf system (3 long strips bolted in the wall - 30 brackets, and 5 wooden shelves) all left throughout the room in a pile of debris - I honestly would have thought a tornado came thru the room with the way it looked!

What a mess to come home to I tell you - My husband and Jonesy were in the basement (mancave) and he thought it was "thundering"!  My rug hooking room is on the third floor.  He said Riley was asleep in the basket on the other side of the room when he came upstairs.

Now how did the whole system come down? It's only been hanging there for 15 years?   Did it have help by Hurricane Riley?  It remains a mystery for sure.  It's not like the system couldn't hold my supplies on those shelves or I had something extra heavy on there.   The top two shelves held some "collections of things".   I'm just stumped.  If it was loose you would have thought maybe a portion of it may have come down - so did a "tiger" take a leap?  My thought is he may have seen a bug or a fly or something - they jump at anything in pursuit of one.

Oh the mason jars - all shattered completely - there were about 6 or 7 of them on there I keep to fill for gifts and whatnot.  

Oh and did I mention the table with the laptop on it - about 4 feet away from these shelves was totally broken and the laptop under all the debris - thank goodness it survived -

Can you believe the hole in this tabletop - it's one of those thick hard plastic type tops on the work table - don't know how the hell it got this hole - must have been a heck of an impact - the laptop has a huge scratch but I can live with that...

Now everything is setting in whatever spot/basket/bag was available until I decide what to do with this...

I will admit I had a complete moment of a meltdown and started bawling when amongst the rubble I found a framed pic of Nicky (who passed 5 years ago) all broken up and ripped from the glass from the frame.   After I got that out of my system I keep cleaning up the glass and stuff and then just went to bed (at this point it was 1:30 a.m. in the morning - I had gotten home and found this at around 11:00)

So my next step is to decide what to do there - I'm thinking maybe some of that freestanding shelving - I know Ikea has some nice wood ones that aren't too pricey.   I would love something old and antiquey - cupboard or wardrobe but i have to be practical - I'm poor and this is where the misc. supplies are kept.  After I spackle and repaint that wall I know I am not hanging those shelves again.

Oh my - Whatever the cause of this CATastrophe I still love my Riley to pieces!  If he did it - he was just doing what comes natural to tigers...  right?