Pandemic Puppy Prep is complicated — and thank goodness for Amazon. Every day feels like Christmas around here, with daily packages arriving filled with such exciting things as bulb syringes and hemostats.
Yesterday was especially thrilling — the puppy collars arrived!
Sparkle’s mom and Daisy’s grandfather are littermates and so that means Daisy’s puppies will be Sparkle’s something-cousins…
We raise our litters in the house, OF COURSE, and so last week I went to Home Depot to purchase a piece of vinyl to cover the living room floor -- the whelping box will sit on it.
The parking lot was packed and mask-less people streamed in and out of the store.
I was dumfounded. And irate.
I called Dear Husband as I drove off and it went like this: @#$%& *&%#$
Lowe’s was the same.
And so was the next phone call to Dear Husband.
I went to the flooring store — no masks but also very few people.
I needed that vinyl! It had to air out before it could come in the house and so I put my own mask on and went inside.
I got my piece of vinyl — a remnant — FOR FREE! #score
I cannot afford to get sick for all kinds of reasons but especially because we have puppies arriving next weekend. Montana has low rates BUT the tourists are arriving and careless people are congregating again — I am worried about June.
I am now unwilling to go into places that do not require masks and in a Red State like this, those places are far and few between. Costco and the Good Food Store in Missoula — those are my Peeps.
Masks — the new symbol of Love Your Neighbor.