The traveling in both directions was a nightmare with bumper to bumper traffic and rain. In future home visits we will not be taking the GW bridge! It is worth the few extra miles to take the parkway.
We left our two cats with food and water in the garage. Our neighbor making sure the dishes were filled. They have a cat door for easy access. The neighbor said that the black cat disappeared as soon as we left, not to be seen again. She still has not returned home. The other one Shadow has become very clingy and not hardly out of our site only to do her business and return. She has been sleeping on our bed between us since we returned home from Maine. Usually, we are able to close our bedroom door. Not so since returning.