For once, further is closer. It's easier to get to Seattle than Twisted Spoon, OR.......................and you are close to Espirit convention in Port Angeles. Good to hear you get to keep your cats. It would be hard for them to train a new owner.
"A live lived in fear is a life half-lived." - Native American proverb.
"Inside every man is a woman who was drowned in testosterone before birth". - Wendy Jeanette Larsen
"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you're not." - Andre Gide (French writer)