Just a few stories early this morning on the Gubernator... and the rain came in...!

Hit these hotkeys for the latest!!! https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/coronavirus-rages-florida-gov-ron-083515121.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/editorial-hypocrisy-danger-desantis-personal-093000788.html 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-hospitals-taking-steps-battle-182140177.html

Any more commentary from me would just be redundant!

We already established that he, the Gubernator, "can't see the forest for the trees"!!!

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/can%27t+see+the+forest+for+the+trees

Moving on... Our home is very dark this morning without turning on a light, it was nine A.M., not P.M. when I took these pictures!!!

The light turned on, all due to an early rainstorm!!!

As you can see our outdoor light is also on automatically!

Water is nearly up to our dock already and high tide is not till just after 12:00 P.M.! This pic was taken at nine A.M.! Our home is at an eleven-foot elevation from our saltwater canal. And in the nearly 23 years we have lived in this home we have never been flooded out... only when our roof was ripped off during Hurricane Charley in 2004, and it literarily rained inside our home then destroying our just installed hardwood floors and all else inside too, thus why we put in tile floors after.

Hubby forgot to turn his empty wheelbarrow over, but when the rain lets up he will go out and dump it!

So far...

It is scary to me to take my normal morning shower when we have thunder and lightning, roaring and clashing!!!

So I will have to wait.

Fortunately, it was my day off from the pool, so my somewhat routine is still intact.

With this stormy weather, even Hubby who has planned to do our grocery shopping this morning is waiting for a break in the weather.

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-a-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!