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Life, Family, Pets, and Friends In The Age Of Coronavirus
It ain’t easy
Westward Ho
For a variety of reasons, my son and his family moved from East to West coast in late February. They had jobs or occupations that were transportable. That is ….until they got here and the coronavirus or covid-19 started spreading. [How I, a diehard New York City native, East Coast denizen, moved to and stayed in Oregon is an article for another time.]
When they first arrived, they stayed with friends while looking for a place to rent but then their jobs got put on hold because businesses were closing and other states were going into major lockdown, all impacting their ability to work. Everything they had been doing suddenly stopped!
So what did we do? First, be happy that they had not renewed their lease back East, or rent anything here. Secondly, they moved in with me! It’s been interesting, to say the least, and they know I am about to write on how this has and will possibly impact all our lives for an unknown length of time.
I have a small house with an even smaller separate building. This separate building, thankfully, has a bathroom — except it needed work before use. And I was living with a small refrigerator until some planned remodeling got done and the old one carted away. [Said remodeling is now on…
