Tropical Storm Fay

Baby Butterball and I made it through our first tropical storm of the 2008 hurricane season - Tropical Storm Fay.  Luckily, the center of the storm didn't come close to the Stuart area but the rains seemed to hang around all week long flooding the town in certain parts.  I discovered that being a Hotel manager in this area is much different than in Key West.  In Key West, the city would call for an evacuation of all tourist so everyone would leave as you shut down the hotel and have a day off.  Up on the mainland it is a different story and you must stay open because everyone flocks to your hotel as a sanctuary, evacuating from their waterfront homes.  So Tuesday morning, we shoved off to work in torrential rains trying to get to the office with very little sleep from the night before.  The one thing we didn't expect was "Hurricane Scooter" to affect us (our incorrigible cat).  He generally goes out at night and he was fidgety mess, keeping us up all night.  We finally put him in his cat carrier and tucked him in another bedroom which granted us a couple hours of sleep.  When we awoke in the morning and let him out we noticed trails of blood coming out of the carrier.  Scooter had gnawed at the soft bag cat carrier and must have cut his nose leading to a massacre appearance on the plush woolly padding.  I guess we can't lock him up when he's bad now.  We'll have to review our parenting skills and practice on Scooter.