Detente

Rog's girlfriend Rachel arrived at our house tonight, along with her dog, Parker (who, as I've said before, is the best dog in the world). Max, our cat, is wary. Apparently when we all pulled up in the car (I had gone with them to Matt and Maggie's house first, to play Scattergories) to the house, Parker got out, and Max had climbed a tree in fright. Rog had to go out to our back porch and call to him to coax him down. Max sniffed around the car and driveway suspiciously, and finally Rog had to go pick him up to bring him inside the house. We're hoping we can partition the house at first (hey, maybe it won't work in Iraq, but let's try in our house, at least) and hopefully they can get used to each other's smells and even see each other through a crack in the sliding doors, before having to interact.