The weird thing is that we had received many messages stating we were back online, and we weren't at the time! This went on for days!
And when you would call the number in their text to let them know, it was a dead end, no people were available to speak with!
The same was done with Florida Power and Light for a few days, we were so hopeful, our power did return eleven days after the hurricane. Internet was restored 23 days after the system went down On October 21st, it went down on September 28 when the hurricane hit!
We do have a generator, a gas one. The fill for Hubby waiting seven hours on line to get was $160 cash with no receipt generated due to not being able to at our local Sam's Club! That included gas cans and a van.
The second fill-up was due to not believing all the texts that had not been true previously, and Hubby was able to use our charge since sporadically power had been restored. It was $130.01 at the Speedway gas station on 10/10/22 the day before our power was restored! But no one knew for sure. So a total of $290.01 was spent for the generator and car in eleven days! When on our very small 1100 square foot home we rarely have any electric bills over two hundred dollars in a month's time!
Well, now we are well stocked with gas for the lawn mower and boat, although with all the debris in the waterways even if the weather becomes cool enough to go out the waterways are too dangerous to travel through!
Although Hubby is still trying to find our one missing post from the pergahut by slowly going up and down our canal via our boat until he does find it, he feels he cannot rebuild it, that is unless he uses one that is totally different!
Before Hurricane Ian the pergahut!
After Hurricane Ian!
Hubby was able to collect nearly every part except that beefy dock post on the outer right corner!
It's eight feet long, and was another leftover piece from when he rebuilt the lift for the new pontoon boat back in 2017!
We have tried finding one online but to no avail...! Even if we could we are pretty sure the price would be very high?
Hubby has all parts neatly stacked down by the water now... just waiting for that piece to rebuild.
MY MUSES are below!
...3 months and 4 years old
I am called Aussie because my mom asked a sixteen-year-old girl who had been looking at me in the crate I was in at the adoption site that day what she thought I should be named. Mom asked her age, but not her name...ha! And without hesitation, the teenager had said Aussie! By the way, she was just looking, 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. Since then, we have discovered that it is a ubiquitous name, but it is still just right for me! My parents think that I am uncommon, even say unique! I do like that.
I am an Australian Shepherd, a red Merl. And here is an interesting factoid about me was supposed to be a miniature Australian Shepherd, but as you might know, I AM NOT! Although I am now four years old, I am the baby, though I am the largest of the fur babies, and due to my breed and being standard, I am a bit too big, ha!
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.
Above is my PIC, taken on the birthday I share with my dad, but dad is much older than me!!! I was the first to be adopted, on February 16, 2018, on dad's brother's birthday.
I was turned in by my previous family, stating that I was misbehaving with their elderly dog it had been said that I was driving him crazy! I was the second to be adopted on 8/18/18 on clear out the shelters day!
Oh, my record called me Belle, so for no known reason, mom decided I was more of a Bella; beautiful either way!
Hey, wait! Please don't forget me! I am Chance, pictured above, a Bichon Frise! I am seven years old, so they think, and the eldest, and I like getting up early with mom and Aussie. Bella sleeps late with Dad, till after seven most days, even later sometimes!
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 had been wandering the neighborhood for days, and then I saw Aussie and Bella in their living room window, so I hung out there...
The animal control lady had been 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 is that if no one claimed me, "I want to give him a second chance!" So that is how I got the name Chance!
The Animal Welfare League checked me out and kept me for sixteen days until I was allowed to be adopted. Good evening.
Easy as Aussie, Bella, and Chance, now you got it! In order of adoption!
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