Last week I took a trip to PA for work. Three of us drove there on Monday, stayed thru Wednesday about 1pm, then drove back. Since none of us were the going out type, we fit all our sight seeing in during the drives. We got to go thru some amazing corn and soybean farming country in PA as the GPS took us around an estimated 26 minute traffic backup due to a MV accident on the highway.
On the way back I took pictures while going over the Hudson River Bridge
While I was away, remnants of hurricane Henri hit. Of course since it was traveling over land, it was downgraded to a tropical storm and I'm not even sure it had that designation when it got to VT and NH. Regardless, it dumped some rain.
My pet sitter did a great job and kept me informed of her cat sightings. Rita is the only cat that deigned to make an appearance when Anne was here (she made a total of 4 visits). Since Rita was a rescue that I took in when she was about 7, she must have been socialized during her younger years. Although she isn't the type to seek out attention from strangers, she quickly settles down when they are around.
Of course the two youngsters have only seen a couple of other people in their lives, and those have been people doing work on my house, so they don't tend to be sociable. That being said, at times I have put them in the cat pen in the living room while others have been here, so they also aren't terrified. This is illustrated by Anne saying that she could hear them chasing each other on the main floor while she was cleaning the cat boxes in the basement. I would just about bet that, at times, Spot was lurking around watching Anne since she is very curious and adventurous.
It was a good trip with the cats and birds well taken care of, so I couldn't ask for anything better than that.
Your poor kitties haven't seen people, have they? Wonder how many pet animals are out there in the same situation - millions?
Glad your trip went well and the turtle heads (and the wild ones) are interesting. You introduce me to so many plants about which I had never heard!
Posted by: Cop Car | August 29, 2021 at 08:17 AM
Being a loner tends to make the same of my pets. I'm guessing there aren't millions of people out there that don't have visitors. Maybe over the last 1.5 years it has turned out that way for a lot of people when it hasn't been their general way of life.
Posted by: bogie | August 31, 2021 at 03:47 AM
I'm sure you are right. The change from everyone's having a useable front porch to having a back patio changed neighborhood dynamics - isolating us - and online capabilities have made the isolation stronger, in spades.
I marvel, going back over old planner/diary entries, at how much your dad and I used to socialize (that's how we got together, after all!) I never considered myself a social person; but, comparatively speaking, I was a social butterfly.
Posted by: Cop Car | August 31, 2021 at 11:21 AM