The first fifteen of the thirty-five years we have lived in Florida...

 

I was so very proud of where we lived for the first several years when we first moved to Florida, we were a tourist destination, for family and friends, and we enjoyed showing them around! 

Never even thinking about politics, although when we first moved here in 1986 our governor was a Democrat, and for many years after our governors, all were too! Historically speaking most all were too! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Florida

We were registered Democrats and voted along party lines like most everyone did, and still does.

Fast forward thirty-five years later and for the last twenty years or so that we have lived here we have had Republican governors as our state has deteriorated from no concern about nature, or water quality and beaches have all been left all by the wayside!

They discuss tourism as our main form of income as a state and yet do not want to spend to maintain any of the above-mentioned things! Not just for that, our tax base, but for global warming and changes to our climate.

We would have moved but we don't have the energy or ability to do that anymore... too expensive!

And even with our sons in this state too, only a few hours away, they are so busy when not in a PANDEMIC mode.

So we had considered until these last nearly two years! Below is another hotkey with our Gubernator's lasted and never greatest pursuits, please read,... is he horrible, or is it just my take on him?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-businesses-require-proof-vaccination-013916984.html

Interesting added in the tidbit.

https://original.newsbreak.com/@joe-duncan-561174/2359606192328-can-florida-chiropractors-write-medical-exemptions-for-school-mask-policies?s=oldSite&ss=dmg_local_briefing_fromweb.web2

Moving on...

Just for safety like all of us are concerned, we are and I am more than sure you are too, added into the baloney news you can use... below!

 https://theoutdoorwear.com/signs-your-house-is-being-watched-by-robbers/?utm_source=mxl&utm_term=2ab72dccd72c95abf44f38f30784c7dd&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=0903-Signs_Your_House_Is_Being_Watched_By_Robbers

Moving on once again...!

Please send all our love and prayers to all people in the mid-Gulf states as well as the northeastern and New England states, and mid-Atlantic too, Tennessee and North Carolina!

If you missed the new arbor when I snuck it later on yesterday, here it is again...

 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!