The copycatting has begun!

So scary!

Two more incidents of trying to kill other students in the state of Florida, Lee County, where the first one's plan was last week, were fortunately also stopped in their tracks! 

Too much information on the how is what I believe has precipitated the copycats' actions to try!

Thankfully, they too were stopped!

But as usual in these situations, they begin to come out of the woodwork horrifically!

Let's all hope and pray that no more will be found to be planning or any to succeed in their horrible possibility of seeing their plan going through!!!

Hope they find out the reason, was it that they wanted their fifteen minutes of fame, or did it seem like a way to get rid of the taunters they had to deal with daily?

Moving on...

Do you have Cicadas? According to all the info we could find, they are not common to Florida, huh? Their noise/songs can be heard loudly most days. The below picture is of one that Aussie sniffed, but stayed still until Hubby came out, and Aussie sniffed it again, and then it flew away! Must have been playing dead? That one is on our pool decking at the step end.

Hubby took down the EZ up, a generic one, from Lowes, due to the heavy rainstorm we were having yesterday afternoon! As you can see how green the grass is from all that rain, nice.

Although, the garden around the pond will be even smaller than what you see below. Hubby will be using the dirt higher up to fill in some of the holes around the 125-gallon pond, and yes, I stand corrected the pond is not 150 gallons, but a mere 125! Nice to see the canal now. The reason the canal view had been hidden was due to traveling via boat up and down other people's canals and being able to see into their homes. I suppose I became a bit paranoid.

Thus wanting to remove the view for privacy's sake. Unfortunately or fortunately, years later, and invasive trees now removed later, I prefer to see the view! Well, not entirely unblocked but better than it had been. Seeing the sunset from our pergola is what we should be doing nightly, it appears off to the right/west, as you might see it in the photo, looking down our canal.

Sadly with all the rain, it has been too cloudy here for any decent sunrise pictures.

The hotkey below is telling you about our rise in this state of COVID cases and deaths, and how DeathSantis, yes with an "I" I made a typo yesterday, anywho, why the mask mandates are still very important...! And how he still refuses to see that necessity to have mandates!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/many-people-dying-covid-florida-230900280.html 

Question: Yesterday, did I hear Sheinille Jones, from NBC Today's Show, say that the PANDEMIC is over??? 

Clarification: to my knowledge, it is NOT!!!

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 my 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. And 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, which 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, on his brother's birthday.

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

No tail/tale publishing, circa 2018.

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!