Sorry for the extended hiatus. In addition to work worries, we took some time off to drive to SC over Thanksgiving (which was very nice, thanks, and I hope you had a good time as well).
Dave and I arrived back in PA after a long and frustrating 11-hour drive on Sunday to discover that the kittysitters (a) put the latch on the door leading down to the basement, so that we couldn’t get into the house from the basement, and (b) locked the front door lock (we usually lock only the deadbolt), and we don’t have a key for that, so we couldn’t get into our house at all.
Luckily, we had a big ladder in the basement and got in the kitchen window, which is never locked. Here are the photos I took of Dave doing that (with Alice supervising). Hee.

