Day 90

Happy Birthday to the first baby cougars conceived in isolation time!

If they were dedicated, the gray squirrels in the yard could have had three litters in the last 90 days. There are, running around in the world, opossums, mice, hamsters, rats, gerbils, muskrats, wombats, chipmunks, rabbits, koalas, ferrets, foxes, kangaroos, cats, dogs, minks, raccoons, otters, even wolves that weren’t yet glimmers in their fathers’ eyes the last time I was freewheeling around town.

The first isolation lions have another 18 days to go. Tigers arrive the day after, and pigs four days after that. We can start looking for isolation goats at Day 150, sometime in August. Bears join the party at day 220, about the time we decide if we want four more years of the House of Orange.

If a vaccine takes a year, we’ll welcome isolation donkeys on the day we’re lining up for the jab. A year and a half, and we’ll celebrate freedom from the Dread Virus about the time the first sperm whale is celebrating freedom from the womb.

Pray we don’t get into elephant territory