Cookie crumbs

Turns out I'll be here in Litchville the next few days after all. Ellie hadn't had her kennel cough vaccination (not part of the standard package, I guess), and it turns out Animal Acres requires it. I found this out calling on my cell phone on the way in. =(

I could have looked for a kennel that doesn't require that vaccination, but even if I found one, is that someplace I'd want Ellie to stay? As I understand it, the reason kennels have a vaccination requirement is because kennel cough is very contagious and can run rampant without them. I couldn't just put Ellie someplace where she'd have a high risk of catching something that's unpleasant at best and potential life-threatening at worst.

Since she and I were on the road, we did stop at our vet's to get the vaccine for the future. It takes two weeks for immunity to develop, so that doesn't help us for the Fair Hills conference, unfortunately. But she'll be OK if we need to kennel her unexpectedly down the road.

So it turns out that I'll be here in town doing the normal pastor routine. I'm taking all of the setbacks with the Fair Hills conference as perhaps a sign that there's important stuff here for me to be doing. I've got a baptism on Sunday to prepare for, and Shawn's wedding a week after that I need to start looking at, so there's certainly stuff for me to do. But I think I'm going to work hard to get some visiting done. I wasn't expecting to have this time, so that seems to be a good way to put it to use.

And that, as they say, is just how the cookie crumbles.