Benchwork is a minimum of 40 inches from the floor, cats both plump, trains are safe![(-D]
Great idea on the magnet, Lion. With your permission, I think i’ll ‘copycat’ you.
Moving on, a year-old tabby named Annie once temporarily knocked me out of this hobby. I was 16, had my first real job, and was busy blowing entire paychecks at the LHS (the three-floor hobby shop in New Westminster, sadly missed). I was well into the process of converting my childhood 4x8 skating-rink-flat HO layout to N when one morning I found that Annie had, in the course of a busy night’s work, chewed through every single track feeder and switch control wire on the layout. Seeing as how Annie thought the trains were mice and the wires chew toys – and that holding the cat underwater would have been frowned upon – I gave up. Thank God, not forever.