We are not trying to do something big like Troy and Youngin. All we are trying to do is finish a silly cat tower. We got most of the stuff we needed, but found we are lacking one more part, a long nut so we can connect to pieces of threaded rod so it will be long enough pass all the way through the number three tower. Towers one, two, and four are complete. The number four tower which is the tallest has the biggest platform on it is now in place so you can see what the thing will look like. Towers one, two, and three are stair steps leading to the big platform. The pathetic part is that even though the thing is almost done, the missing third step makes it impossible for the cats to get up on the top platform, so they cannot even use it yet unless we lift them up. So, today, Lorena and the kids will head over to Home Depot–Lowes did not have the right kind of nut nor the rope we need.
When we hit a brick wall on the cat tower, I spent some time working on our GaugeCam project. I made some great progress there. I struggled with a way to work with the images giving the new cross platform development environment we decided to use, but I have worked past that now and can get on with the real serious part of the project that involves the measurement of the water levels in images of lakes, streams, and that sort of thing.