Dodging Corona in Cat Round Up

Monday's cat round up will officially begin tomorrow.

Ordinarily finding seven cats who need fixed would not be very difficult.  But it may be this weekend.

I find myself attempting to dodge corona virus, which seems prevalent in the Lebanon area.

The Lebanon colony caretakers colony is all fixed, except for Lion, the long hair old orange boy.  But will they want anyone there, I think, since they live right behind the veterans home where 8 cases so far have been positive on corona for those poor veterans?  I hate that they now have to fight this battle too.  None have died, and we're all pulling for them.

Which really means there are probably a lot of people who already have it in the area.  The old woman, now over 80, at the Lebanon colony and just diagnosed with breast cancer, does not need another concern.  Her adult daughter who lives there too has heart problems.

The Waterloo caretaker, also with one boy still needing done, was sick last Sunday--fever and headache and was headed to the ER, she told me, Sunday evening, if she wasn't better.  Yeah she's a tough one, but she figured she had picked up corona somewhere.  I haven't talked to her since then.  But the likelihood she had or has corona was probably fairly high, and her family will be next if so.  There's almost no testing going on in Oregon.  I think I need to steer clear of that one awhile.

The town feels dead already.  Gatherings of over 250 people have been banned in Oregon for the next month at least.  K through 12 schools will be closed for a month.  Universities have gone to online classes.  People over 60 are being advised to stay home.  That's me. Stay home, cat woman.

Well I have been for the most part.  I told my brother I've been self quaratined for almost 30 years now. 

My older friend with rather extreme health issues, from Corvallis, came over last night and we went out to Walmart.  She was looking for some specific type of storage container, since she's cleaning her garage out.   I pulled her over to the TP aisle, which was empty, and said "Look!"

We laughed and laughed over the great toilet paper scramble.  Then she said "Do you have enough?"  I said I have four rolls and I use less than a roll a month so I think so.

It's not like there's a real shortage and people will run out of space soon enough to store their TP.  I suspect many of these folks are reselling it for profit on ebay and other online stores which means they're scumbags, trying to profit off a pandemic--the sorts of people who are viruses themselves.

Our weather has been cold but sunny until today when the rains returned, with a cold cold vengence.  It could snow over the weekend, the weather crew stated, with very little certainty.  It was a year ago this month we had a snowstorm in Oregon that clogged the park in deep drifts and downed trees everywhere.  That melted and two weeks later everything flooded.

Whatever.  Let the weather do as it must.   We have a lot on our minds here in Oregon's mid valley now.  Like our veterans, up at the home in Lebanon.  We want them to be ok.

So anyhow, ruling out the Lebanon colony male and the Waterloo male, because I need to leave both parties alone for now, I do have six cats lined up but that's if I can catch two Sodaville teens out of a bunch of already fixed cats.  And that's if caretakers can actually each catch their one male.  I have high confidence in the Lebanon lady's ability with that and the Corvallis teen male is already contained.  The other two, one from Shedd and one from Sweet Home, are not so sure thing.

Which means I may go up after a last Cascadia male or try to catch some ghostlike cats at the park, all three probably dumps, but I"ve only seen each of them a handful of times.  It may be the perfect time to sit them out though, especially if rain keeps the dog walkers out of the park this weekend.

The Sodaville lady just cancelled, as she is sick now too, hopefully not with corona.