Today's field note from Sgt. Puppy and the morning watch at Camp Puppy Haven, Vermont.
This is the camp. Camp Puppy Haven, Vermont. The ferns along the dirt road went bronze this week, ahead of everything else. Nobody's mentioned it. The dogs walk past it twice a day.
It was Friday, August 28th. It was forty-nine degrees at dawn in Camp Puppy Haven, seventy-seven by mid-afternoon. We were working the day watch out of Jacket Morning Detail. My partner's Doris. The boss is Lieutenant Clove. My name's Puppy.
A man stood in his driveway for a while, deciding whether it was a jacket morning. It was a jacket morning. He'd have known it in the first four seconds if he hadn't spent the rest of them thinking.
Sgt. Puppy's Field Notes are published most weekday mornings.
Read the full series at Camp Puppy Haven.
Standard issue at Camp Puppy Haven: tees, sweatshirts, and hoodies for the humans on morning watch.
Camp Puppy Haven Badge Tee | THiNK LiKE A DOG®
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Welcome to Camp Puppy Haven™. This garment-dyed heavyweight tee brings the feeling of old camp stores, worn-in favorites, and dog-wise living into one everyday shirt. Featuring our retro Camp Puppy Haven badge printed on the left chest, it’s made for… read more
