Waiting for Rita

9:38 pm and still no Rita. Looks like the path is much further eastward than originally thought, so we’re on the East side of the storm. We’ve all been taking it easy and napping today, thinking that no one would get much sleep tonight. So far, we’re just three stir-crazy people and 4 neurotic pets, waiting for the storm to come.

My mom is staying with us, with dog Duffy in tow. Nathan and I have definitely become cat people, so spending the day with Duffy has been… interesting. :) Duffy has peed on our water bottle and ice chest (is he trying to tell us something?). And apparently he prefers diet cat food to his own food, because we can’t keep him out of it. Oh, and dogs eat scones? That’s a new one for me.

We’ve had some wind and some impressively pretty clouds. Big, black, ominous clouds. It spit some rain a while ago, but that’s it. The waiting is driving me crazy.