Thursday, October 5, 2023

In the news updates...





What Trump stands to lose in the New York civil trial (yahoo.com)

 Trump bails out of fraud trial on 3rd day: He came, he scowled, he got gagged, and left (yahoo.com)

Yay! Back on...!

Biden-Harris Administration Announces an Additional $9 Billion in Student Debt Relief | U.S. Department of Education

Moving on...

My kneecap and hip are not broken but who knows if there is soft tissue damage due to no CT just an old-fashioned X-ray and all that shows is bone.

Below is my right-hand info on that X-ray. I thought I had broken it months ago in another fall, which they just so happened to have my order from my doctor's office so I finally got that done yesterday... not broken either but lots of arthritis I think is what it says 

"There is extensive diffuse bony osteopenia. Moderately severe/severe first carpometacarpal joint and triscaphe joint degenerative changes. There was marked joint space narrowing with a bone-on-bone appearance, subchondral sclerosis, and hypertrophic osteophyte formation. Moderate degenerative changes are seen involving the interphalangeal joint of the thumb as well as the second and fifth DIP joints."

I suppose that is why it still hurts! I am right-handed, mostly.

Let me introduce you to the crew...


Lastly, moving on to who they are, our crew...

3 months and 4 years old, now 5!    
Aussie, say good day!

I am Aussie, not from Australia, but American-made. 
I will comply because it is fun and say good day!

I am called Aussie because my mom asked a sixteen-year-old girl 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 found out the girl's name; mom liked 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: I was supposed to be a miniature Australian Shepherd, but as you might know, I AM NOT! I am a standard Australian Shepherd! Although I am now five 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 just right, 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.
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. I might be seven years old. We are all rescues, so no one knows our ages for sure. I am the middle child, so I am what you would expect, with all those idiosyncrasies accompanying that! Being the only girl has its rewards as well as its difficulties. 
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 8/18/18 on clear out the shelters day!
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 eight 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 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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