Howllow Fellow Basset Hound and Staying at Home lovers – Well, I love my home and everyone in it so it is not as hard as some might have it.  So far we are staying #KYstrong.  As you can see I have a long list of days that I have not posted yet.  Looks like an entire week!  Well, let’s get to it and see what we have.  I wonder if I will look back on this some day when that next pandemic hits and see howl we got along.

Friday April 10th – Day 25 – Death and Taxes…

I made some phone calls to the IRS about what I owe.  I know that the deadlines are moved to July 15th but I want to get a jump on it. I have not received a refund in over a zillion years so nothing new there.

I could not get through right away but that is not surprising.  Nothing is certain but death and taxes.  Howl uplifting.  We hear the death numbers from the Corona repeated on a loop all day long… even while I am on hold for an hour with the IRS.

Death and Taxes became really realz today.

Saturday April 11 – Day 26 – Errand Day…

Dropped off a young pandemic grinch toy to Annie our basset hound friend with some reading material from Daisy Lynn…The reading material was some old Tally Ho’s and Bugler Magazines.

Then I went with Grandma to Eberts Meats to get an Easter ham.  No luck at Krogers.  I did discover that Eberts Meats has the best ham by far.  Easter here we come.  Wonder why we eat ham on Easter? I probably don’t want to know…

Here I am sporting my new Pandemic wear.  I knew when “they” (who is they anyway?) said that face masks were not recommended for the general public that was a lie.  “They” said that the masks would even be harmful to the general public because of the infected particles seeping through and our own breath contaminating the inside of the mask… blah blah blah.  I even had the woman who works at Lowes trying to explain it to me months ago when I heard China was in the mists of an epidemic.  The masks at Lowes were even gone then.  I never believed “they” for a second.  I had a few masks tucked away so we were good to go hunt ham because now we are told to WEAR A MASK IN PUBLIC.  Who is running this show anyway?  No one in the store had one on and I was NOT happy with the social distancing but I made it work.  I waiting til the infected folks left the store before I went in.  Hey, we are told to assume we all are infected.  I totally follow that rule!

Then I saw a disturbing image as we left Eberts on the way to Krogers.  A woman was speeding off the exit ramp and heading up Grand Ave.  I noticed she had a mask on while driving and I thought that seemed odd.  I then noticed her eyes looked scared.  Then I saw in the back seat a guy about her age (20ish to 30ish) sitting sideways with his legs stretched out with a mask on.  He looked at me as they turned the corner.  He was pure white and his eyes looked dead.  They had to be heading to the hospital about 1 minute up the road.  That kinda hit me hard. More infected for real this time.  This all happened in the span of about 6 seconds.  Hey, young people are at risk too.  It is not just an elderly disease.  I may have mentioned this in my blog notes already but I almost died from the flu about 8 – 10 years ago.  OK, let me go look at the date because I have it in my blog.  Yes, it was in the area of 10-11-12.  Horrible flu.  I never want to go through that again and I cannot imagine those who have to go through Corona.  Interestingly, I recall I did not get my flu vaccination until after I recovered.  I now get my vaccination in September every year and I have not had the flu since or for that matter before.  That was the only year I recall but it might be because it was so freaking bad.  That poor couple looked so scared. I wonder what happened to them?  Were they spring breakers?  Were they at a Corona Party?  Who knows.

Sunday April 12 – Day 27 – Easter

Got my ham into the crock pot with green beans, red potatoes, onions, cheese and wine.  The ole traditional Easter stew.  I also made deviled eggs and corn bread stuffed with cheese and hot peppers.  We are still packing on the pandemic pounds. Extra butter for the corn bread please…What’s for dessert? I made fresh blueberry lemon bar cheese cake strudel.  I almost cried it was so good…

Then the door bell rang…Panic sets in!!! – Some infected person is at my door???  Geezus H Christ in the name of all things holy for Easter who in their stay at home right mind is ringing my door bell???  Maybe the Easter Bunny?  If so, that’s OK.  So, I creep carefully toward the door and what do I see???  OMDOG!!!  It’s Marsie Hall Newbold heading towards her car – even during a pandemic Marsie is dropping off something to raise money for basset hounds in need.  She bought this very coveted Welcome Spring sign for us to auction off for KYbassethoundrescue.  Ohhhhh…and a little something for Grandma and I.  Easter eggs…Lavender flavor TP!  hahahaha and yes, another very coveted item for sure!!!  I recently asked Marsie to join the KYbassethoundrescue board as an advisor and networker.  That you so much Marsie…I will get this up for auction ASAP.  I will even throw in a Lily Book.  Love it! (Auction for sign not TP;)

5:00pm – watched Andy and he announced that Kroger is partnering with KY and some lab in our neck of the woods to do wide spread testing for free and the goal is to do about 20K per day.  We cannot open back up unless wide spread testing is available.  Wide spread testing and a steady flattening and then down turning of the curve.  KY is still in the upswing of the curve and nursing homes are the main target of the virus. Some dip stick idiots still want to hold Easter church services.  For the love of Dog give it a rest.  There is always those few who screw it up for everyone. 2 lunnies even drove from NJ to KY to protest.  Can you imagine howl shallow your life is to make that trip?  NJ – that has mega cases of the corona and these freaks come to KY for Easter. Gov. Andy was sooooooo mad!

Here is the supreme leader of the KY church.  CORONA FOR EVERYONE now let’s hunt eggs!!!

The notice informs Mr. you can’t tell me what to do, that he has to self quarantine for 14 days because he is in violation of  NO MASS GATHERINGS…

He said that he is not going to do that.  Wonder if he shook hands with the NJ people?

Monday April 13 – Day 28 – Deaths in KY pass 100 Gov. Andy orders flags flown at half mast.  These are the flags in front of our city building.

Tuesday April 14 – Day 29 – Coming soon – just a little long for this already too long post.

Wednesday April 15 – Day 30 –

Protesters turned up at the State Capital to throw a hissy fit tantrum. What total jerks. They tried to disrupt Gov. Andy’s conference as he was reading the death results for the day.  Trump encouraged these disrupters via Twitter.  Notice howl the word encourage has the word rage in it?  Howl crude, howl cruel.  You cannot make this stuff up folks.  These paid disruptors show up and scream about abortion and guns and other totally unrelated pandemic issues.  They were not socially distancing and not wearing masks.  What total jerks.  They were also screaming about their right to go back to work. I would say about 90 percent do not even live in KY.  They are just a fringe group of scary freaks/agitators. I hope Gov. Andy took down their license plate numbers and enforced 14 day quarantine for attending a mass gathering.  Makes me so sad to know that our country is being torn apart and it’s being torn apart at this vulnerable time.  Sickens me.  But we have to rise above it.  I vow to rise above it.  I always have. 

Persevere we do.  Though the dark comes the light if you look for it.  You have to leave the evil forces that shout and scream and try to distract and turn them off.  Just like magic they will all be gone…

A GREEN LIGHT TOUR OF OUR GREAT TOWN WAS CERTAINLY IN ORDER…

Green is the color of compassion and unity.  All Kentuckians are urged by Gov. Andy to light up green in solidarity of those we have lost to the Corona virus. Grandma and I decided to blow the stink off in more ways than one.  Please come with us on our green light tour…

This is an old water tower/beacon of strength in our town.  We waited to take the picture when the dusk light was just right.

Right down the road we have our Fire Department – Our heroic first line defenders.

This is my High School – Proud 1975 Graduate.  The building seems to be saying, “I will be here when you get back – stay safe”.

A proud home honors the lost…

Could this be any more beautiful?  This is my BFF’s church.  The second I took this picture…

This song started playing in my head…

“When you think you’ve had enough…hold on”

Love you…

Thursday April 16 – Day 31 – Totally have no idea what we did this day.  I think worked on ebay for the rescue and worked in my office.

Friday April 17 – Day 32 – Learning Zoom with Grandma and Daisy Lynn today. Well, that was a hoot.  Grandma, Daisy Lynn and I are going to Zoom with our Julian on Sunday.  We are even going to dress up for it!  I will even put on my pandemic lip gloss!!!  Daisy will wear something fetching.  Did I tell the residents that our Julian got into medical school at OSU?  Yes indeed!  He got in but will he be able to go?  Wonder what that fate is for him.  I will let u know if he knows what is happening with the start date.  Anyway…there is no getting over the fact that you must face yourself when you zoom.  Talk about holding the mirror up to your own face or should I say, fat face.  OMGAWD!!!  Pandemic pounds for sure…Even Daisy has gained some weight and has lost her girlish figure.

“May I have a little more please?”

Then…It’s 5:00pm – time for Andy!!!

Gov. Andy had a lot of info on his show today.  He unveiled a plan… for thinking about… re-opening KY!  He knows the majority of folks need a bone to chew on after a month of sheltering in place.
He is trying so hard to keep us safe from ourselves.  We will never go back to our previous normal.

“No more doin’ what you want whenever you want!”

NO MORE PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY SANDWICHES

“No more carefree hours…”

Anyway – maybe the new normal will be better in the long run.  One thing that I think will be fantastic is people will be peer pressured into staying home when they are sick.  Come on people!!!  Finally – society can shun the jerks who go out in public sneezing and coughing, (I never did that;).  But, that will not be enough so society will have to implement temperature taking!!!  Now were talkin’!  Also, Gov. Andy mentioned that testing for corona will become a norm until we find a cure (hahaha) or a vaccine (wonder if the anti vaxxers will get away without getting one but who knows – maybe the temperature takers will get um!!!  “No more doin’ what you want whenever you want!”).

Let’s say you are scheduled for a routine colonoscopy.  According to what I heard yesterday in the briefing, you would be required to get a corona test first. Your butt is not allowed into the hospital without it!  Kinda like voting in KY – we can’t vote without the new ID. That law was passed during the current legislative session aka mass gathering during a pandemic.  Keep in mind all of the county clerks offices are closed.  When they open we still need to social distance.  Gov. Andy line item vetoed the bill with the caveat of approving it later (due to the pandemic) but the the republicans have the super majority and overrode his veto!!!  You could hear screaming and cheering from the assembly floor.  I think that is called voter suppression. Not Kentucky’s finest day.  It could back fire – let’s wait and see…

Maybe soon, that same ID will be updated with virus testing results.  For some reason I don’t think these new viruses are going away anytime soon.  Gurd your loins and your lungs…Look out world here we come 6 feet apart or… until we get “innarculated, like when the doctor gives you a shot.” 

More loving care free hours later…Cat, Grandma, Daisy Lynn, (Chaps and Emma ATB eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches…)

 

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