We need rain quite desperately and for the last two days, we’ve been getting it by the buckets. Unfortunately, the rain is accompanied by large amounts of lightning and thunder. So yesterday, I got up at 7 ready to do a marathon of errands, including going to Orange to get a new phone and seeking out a black dress for the wedding. I went nowhere. I couldn’t even go out to take out the trash or the litter (and I really needed to change out the litter!) I don’t mind going out and about in rain. In fact, I rather like it. But not when it is lightning like crazy. And the lightning blasted oh so conveniently right up to the time that shops close on Fridays. After that, we had rain without lightning and I could finally change out some of the litterboxes and mop my floors. I couldn’t change out all the litterboxes, however, as the rain clearly prevented the pet shop from making deliveries and thus I do not have enough litter to freshly fill all the boxes. This is clearly a bad thing, as i usually change out the boxes EVERY DAY. So 7 stinky boxes remained yesterday and none of the 14 will get cleaned again until Sunday night when the pet shop does its next delivery. It is pouring rain again today and lightning as well though, being Shabbat, it can lightning all it wants as there is no way to go out and do errands in any event.

I also hope that Shachori will return home. She managed to escape outside two days ago — I’m not sure how but I’m assuming she’s discovered an escape route through the window I’d put screening on.