Explanation of my birthday twins...Hurricane Elsa is heading straight for us!

 

Yesterday was my birthday as well as ten of my Facebook friends, and my cousin's who was not only born on the same day as me but also in the same year! And none other than our head meteorologist in Ft. Myers Florida NBC-2 Allyson Rae's too, but decades younger than me!

 And all the celebrities like Liv Tyler, Dan Aykroyd, and Princess Diana, if she had lived who would have been sixty yesterday! And so many, many more!

 Thus the "BIRTHDAY TWIN", mentioning. My special dinner below... at home, safe!

Moving on...

Hurricane Elsa is now a category 1 and we are with Surfside Florida as our entire state in the cone of concern, used to be called "the cone of uncertainty". Spaghetti plots, those colorful hose-shaped lines are at this writing heading into our vicinity by Monday in the wee hours of the morning, two-ish A.M. CORRECTION: TUESDAY 2 P.M.!

So there's that to contend with for all Floridians, but if it goes north, oh, right now it is about 1800 miles from us, but booking-it at nearly 30MPH! North, as I was saying would be some nasty mountainous terrain over the Cuban island, and good for us, but south of Cuba it could gain strength, so we are supposed to watch all reports over this 4th of July holiday weekend! For us easy. Hope this time for it to go NORTH!!!

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Moving on again...!

Okay, we have all that going on and so what do I decide to do?

ANOTHER PROJECT!!! This solid oak china closet that we bought when we first moved to Florida back in 1986 with a large round table and chairs long gone, given to our eldest who no longer liked it... so it was long overdue to be converted to our cottage white distressed furniture! And what better time to redo it than with a hurricane threat? I know! But it is lessening me thinking about it...truly! So far I emptied it all around the house, actually just the guest-room bed and the sunroom where it lives anyway. I have washed it inside and out and Hubby got most of the hardware off except for one hinge that he will be working on again.

I had four cups that broke, boo hoo, from my Mom's glass snack plates with small cups for tea or coffee, I am very upset about that! I also cut a toe on one of the shards! Guess I am on hold for a little while that is why I am writing now! I had just, a couple of years ago found a very similar cup to the service for six-set, I will look again when this current project is all done. It is the set to your right on our guestroom bed. 

The doors minus the glass below, plus the three shelves that I already have three LED lights for. I had bought six for under twenty bucks on Amazon; the other three are in my etched glass cabinet in the kitchen.

Hubby found a location for the glass.

My dinnerware, service for twelve.

Plastic insulated gravy boat filled with hardware.

Silver in plastic bags and colorful tins I kept.

More mess scattered throughout the two rooms, ugh!

The incentive to finish the project!

Hubby reminded me that if Hurricane Elsa is really coming at us, he will be very busy putting up our hurricane shutters so unable to help me!

Oy vey!

If he can put it on a dolly I suppose I can take care of it from there... It will be done again on the patio!

Now that the stuff is out and the doors are off it is quite light!

Moving on ... the sun made it although the sunrise looked cloudy...!

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!