Refresh and renew!

 

My icon, avatar, or my symbol representing me above is right off the internet, by the way!

I found it years ago as a blonde me, and then I Googled a free red-headed screaming computer gal, and sure enough, she came up!

Periodically, she won't let me copy her, but fortunately, I have downloaded her, and then I just copy and paste her.

 Odd and happily no one has claimed her for their own or any rights that might have been compromised were misused, not a peep.

Since I am easy to find if there were.

I occasionally wonder when she stops being able to be copied from my own blogs and I have to revert to my download.

Any-who, that is why usually for a day, she comes up ENORMOUS!

And for that, I am truly sorry!

Moving on...

To our pool, our tiny pool that suits our needs easily!

The actual dimensions are just 8' X16', and that is small by anyone's standards, it goes from four to five feet in depth! An interesting known fact about this tiny liner pool, its cost in 2005 was just a little over 5K, while our first pool in Florida in 1986 on the other coast, 16'X 36', 3' to 9' depth with diving board and shotcrete construction with a hot tub on its side, with pool cost closer to 40K! So replacing the liner two times in 16 years is still not that bad in comparison, and this time we went nine years! Tiny house tiny pool! And now it is a saltwater chlorine pool!

Although, it will take a few days to get the balance just right, and then it will be time to take the plunge day!

Moving on, once again! This morning's sunrise!

And so we must go, for now ...

Please be smart, as well as safe.

Have a very pleasant day.

Count those blessings, and we will too!

Next time, please be here or be square, ya hear!

Aussie, say good day!

I am Aussie, not being from Australia, but American-made, I will comply anyway, for the fun of it,... so I will say good day!

I am called Aussie because my Mom asked a sixteen-year-old girl, who had been looking at me, in the crate at the adoption site, that day, what she thought I should be named. And without hesitation, the teenager had said, Aussie! She was just looking, by the way,... so Mom did not steal me from her.
We never did find out the girl's name, and Mom liked the name Aussie too. We have since found out that it is a very common name, but it is still just right for me! My parents think that I am uncommon though,... some might say even unique! I do like that.
I am an Australian Shepherd. Here is an interesting factoid about me, I was supposed to be a miniature Australian Shepherd, but... as you might know, I AM NOT! Although I am now three years old, so I am the baby, though I tip the scales at around seventy pounds, HA! I must admit, a very big one!
I was three months old when Mommy and Daddy adopted me. I had been taken out of a hoarder's home in the Carolinas with my litter. Below is my new PIC that had been taken on the birthday that I share with my Dad, but Dad is much, much older than me!!! I was the first to be adopted, February 16, 2018, his brother's birthday.

3 months................................................ 3 years

No tail/tale publishing, circa 2018. (Although, the actual date this blog started was June 25, 2008.) 

Get it? I was born without a tail, preferable for all Australian Shepherds; only one out of five are born that way!

                                           

Hello, I am Bella in the picture above, a Maltese Yorkie, a Morkie, and I might be five years old. I am the middle child, so I am what you would expect, with all those idiosyncrasies that go along with all that! Being the only girl has its rewards, as well as difficulties... We are all rescues, so no one knows for sure our ages. I was turned in by my previous family, stating that I was misbehaving with their elderly dog, they had said I was driving him crazy! I was the second to be adopted on 8/18/18, on clear out the shelters' day!Oh, by the way, my record's called me Belle, and so for no known reason, Mom decided I was more of a Bella; beautiful either way!

Please don't forget me, I am Chance, pictured above, a Bichon Frise! I am six years old, so they think, and the eldest, and I like getting up early with Mom and Aussie. Bella sleeps in with Dad, till after seven most days, even later! I enjoy a good tug-of-war on the ropes that Dad had twisted for Aussie and me, and sometimes even Bella plays too! I was the last to be adopted, on January 23, 2020. 

I was wandering the neighborhood for days and then saw Aussie and Bella in their living room window, so I hung out there... The Animal Welfare League checked me out and kept me for sixteen days until I was allowed to be adopted. Good evening? 

The animal control lady was called and came out to see if I had a chip I.D. with her machine, and Dad told her that he wanted to name me Chance. His reason being, that if no one claimed me, I want to give him a second chance! So that is how I got the name Chance!

Easy as Aussie, Bella, Chance, now you got it!