So...while we were at our hotel yesterday...relaxing...we get a phone call from our alarm company that our house alarm went off...it's the mud room door...and they have called the police because they could not reach us.
So...we go into a full blown panic. All that I am thinking is that there are very bad burglars in the house!!! Doors are open everywhere and Roxie and Lucy walked outside! My kitties are in trouble! Or my alternate nightmare is that a door blew open...apparently it was amazingly windy here yesterday...and Roxie and Lucy have escaped to the great outdoors where they have no sense of direction, survival or sense of the outside! They are lost in the wilderness! They are fighting for their survival! They were catnapped!
OMG!
Luckily the indoor cam showed them both in their beds sound asleep. We called our police...the kind officer said that he tried every door and everything was secure. We called our neighbor and the cat sitter...they went over to check...all doors were secure. So we relaxed.
Then on our drive home the alarm company called again...same door same thing!
We told them to ignore it...we think it had to be the wind?
We prayed it was the wind.
We were stuck in traffic on a beltway outside of Washington D.C.
Getting home soon was not in our reality!
Our GPS turned a 3 1/2 hour trip into a 6 hour nightmare. We crawled home!
For some reason the GPS lady chose the worst possible route. We were starving and there was no place to stop! We were barely moving for hours!
It was awful!
And...the worst part of the trip home was that we had our own alternate route that took us totally away from any of this...it would have taken 30 minutes more and taken us to a great lunch spot but we didn't want to waste an extra hour stopping.
But we are home now...trying to forget the drive...the most awful drive ever!
And of course neither kitty has forgiven us.
They are actually ignoring us!
Hopefully forgiveness will come soon.
While we were away we had a camera focused on the kitty beds...every night we saw Lucy tap Roxie and give her a goodnight kiss. She would reach over into Roxie's bed and do this. The kiss on the head is something I do to both of them every night. Was Lucy reassuring Roxie? It was really sweet!
Reading this...from Amazon...
"A singularly compelling debut novel, about a desert where people go to escape their past, and a truck driver who finds himself at risk when he falls in love with a mysterious woman."
Ok...off to unpack...clean a little and make up with my girls...
Fondly,
Patty
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