Packing for a short trip

I don’t want this to get out of hand. It’s just three days. Three. And one and a half of those with an unknown dog. So I looked at the pile of stuff I had accumulated in the sitting room and decided that I am driving to Mount Vernon, Il in jeans and a shirt with many pockets. Once there I may put on a clean shirt and, depending on the temperature, shorts. At night pajama pants. The next day, probably the clean shirt from the day before and jeans (or shorts) to drive to Memphis and then a change into a sort of beat-up shirt with pockets and jeans. I might sleep in these given the factor of “the dog”.  Memo: keep the key card buttoned in one of my  shirt pockets for midnight nature outings. Then early the next morning another beat-up multi-pocket shirt . . . uh, the white cotton vented one that can be bleached –  and old khaki pants with pockets on the legs.

Well, that made the pile a lot smaller.

I hope Shane has thought this through and is packing light. Collar, leash, jammies.

Arriving home, I expect to be covered with paw prints, doggy saliva and crumbs from dog snacks – not to mention dripped condiments from drive-thru fast food.  Der Bingle sent us a portable Bissell hair eraser vacuum from amazon.com – it sort of looks like a cat.