I don't have anything to show you from my recent drive to Las Vegas from Colorado. I didn't have the camera handy, and there wasn't anything worth photographing.

I drove the day after a large regional snowstorm that was big enough for the Weather Channel to name "Echo." I had 8 inches fall at my house overnight. It caused the delay and cancellation of more than 300 flights out and into the Denver airport, people wisely stayed home, and many meetings and events were cancelled. The next day the sun was out and the roads were mostly dry all the way to Las Vegas.

The cat did her usual drama queen act when we set out, but eventually settled down, and I think she might have slept some. When we got here to the Las Vegas house, she adjusted quickly, although she doesn't like that there is another cat. And the other cat doesn't like that there are additional beings in the house - me and Eloise- but they are coping.

We think that other cat told Eloise that he likes to drink out of the kitchen sink faucet because all of a sudden she wants to be up there all the time, but once she's there, she doesn't know what to do with the stream of water. I don't know how else she'd have thought of it.

It's good to get away from Colorado - the snow, the colder weather, the anxieties of how are we going to get things fixed from the floods. Of course, I'm still doing flood things from here, but it's different to not be faced with it every time I look out the window or go outside.

When I was getting ready to leave from the house on Wednesday I got flustered with getting the cat back into the truck after she escaped, and forgot to lock the front door. I remembered 250 miles later, and had to email a neighbor to go lock it for me. As Martin would say, that's a good thing about the flood - now I know my neighbors.