Last week was a milestone in our trip to our cottage to PEI. We arrived at the cottage on September 3rd but in many ways the trip was not over. We had to go into quarantine for fourteen day. They take quarantining very seriously here and people in that state are phoned every day by an official from the PEI Health Department to confirm that you are still home.
We know of one couple who missed a call and were visited by the RCMP to
check on them. No harm done but their dog thought it would make a break
for it and jumped unnoticed into the back seat of the cruiser and was taken for
a ride to quarantine freedom. However, the canine escapee was discovered
and brought back to quarantine prison.
To be honest being in quarantine has not seemed like being in prison for
either Lorna or me. We have enjoyed the days filled with few commitments
and we were able to hunker down to the things which we enjoy doing; for me it
is being in the bunkie playing guitar and spending time on the computer and
doing my daily spiritual exercises as well as reading and having another kind
of spirit at 4:00 in the afternoon. Lorna on the other hand has thrown
herself into her favourite activity-gardening. I have said for many years
that the people who devised house arrest as a punishment were definitely not
introverts which is what Lorna and I definitely are. Of course being in
quarantine was possible due to help form friends particularly one who brought
us our groceries during this time of isolation.
I was given one opportunity to break out of quarantine which I
took. We were asked by the PEI official if either of us would be willing
to take a COVID-19 test. I agreed as I thought it was my civic duty to
help the officials to gain a better understanding of the scope of the
pandemic. I’m not sure if I would have agreed if I had known I would have
to drive to Charlottetown by myself – Lorna wasn’t allowed to accompany
me. She is usually my navigator when travelling to uncharted territory,
and sometimes even in charted ones. I once had a dream where she was a
back-seat driver but she was in the front seat. I am actually grateful
for her navigational skills and depend on them as I am directionally challenged
which I put down to my type with my sensing function in the Myers Briggs scale
being my weakest or inferior one (see last weeks edition for more on
types). We don’t have GPS in the car which I am beginning to wonder if we
should reconsider.
In any case, last Monday I set off to the uncharted territory in deepest
darkest Charlottetown. All was well until I took a wrong turn or, rather,
the highway too a wrong turn which I didn’t follow and I had to go to plan B
which was to phone Lorna on our antiquated cell phone and she bailed me out and
got me to my destination only a few minutes late which wasn’t a problem.
Once I arrived the process went very smoothly and the test itself was not a
problem. I phoned in for the results last Thursday and yes, I am COVID
negative.
So, we are now out of quarantine and free to fully enjoy the all that
PEI has to offer this time of year which will include hurricane Teddy (a most
inappropriate name for a hurricane in my view). Teddy is scheduled to
arrive early Wednesday and we can hunker down once more to ride it out if it
arrives and the power goes out as predicted. We were able to attend a
church worship service at St. George’s Anglican in Montague on Sunday. It
was a joy to reconnect with some Island friends and to worship with other
people. I will be presiding at the service there next Sunday, Teddy
permitting.
My journey continues – blessings on yours.
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