When the best of intentions...

Tiger, the Wonder cat is well known around here for his ability to break things.  Give the little bugger a new desk lamp and the lamp is in a landfill the next day.

So when my wife had to empty her china closet for the floor work in the dining room, she smartly took precautions.

They largely were centered around a plastic covering taped strongly across our living room arch to just make the living room off limits for Tiger.

However, and you probably saw this coming, there was a slight flaw in our protection plan. Part of our redesign work over the years was to give the entire downstairs a flow - no dead-end rooms, etc.  The living room has a sort of back door onto the porch.

Oops.  I am praying things are intact.