So productivity is unfortunately at a lie still...!

 

Ironically, the lidocaine patch that was prescribed/bought for me is the problem for helping my back strain plus my legs are still being stiff numb, and painful!

The patch is for what I stated above before, and five come in the package. So far, I have used three, and weirdly two out of the three rolled up on their own and fell off!!!

What's that all about???

I foolishly just tried contacting the company, foolishly because it is Saturday and even their message says they are open Monday through Friday starting at 8:00 A.M.

Oh well, guess my ice packs will have to suffice till they tell me what to do.

This just in: My northern friend made a suggestion when I told her I use Dove extra moisturizing body bath that perhaps my back should be washed with alcohol and then apply the patch so it's not slippery??? I will have Hubby try it! Only time will tell!

Moving on...

Hubby is mowing today, so no pictures to share.

Yes, in Florida in October our grass still grows!

We are still having ungodly temperatures in the 90sF!

With feels-like temperatures in the upper 90s!!!

Although officially rainy season ends October 15th, while hurricane season continues until the end of November. All these years, I thought they ended together; I learned something this year!

And we still occasionally get the afternoon sprinkle of rain!

That is why our grass still grows.

Moving on again...

I had to switch cards for automatic payment with Amazon due to me stopping the other card that had been compromised.

I hadn't realized that the Amazon Prime membership had not been paid this month but my instincts told me somehow it hadn't been, and I was right!

Good thing I had, the payment is due in a couple of days, and the new cards won't be here for seven to ten days!

Here we go again... moving on! Get your hotkeys here!

Some areas of our country are worse off than others with COVID-19 sadly! This PANDEMIC IS NOT OVER PEOPLE!!! And won't be unless everyone gets vaccinated!!!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/48-hours-live-oklahoma-hospitals-135102615.html

OMG, what's next??? Some things have no vaccinations!!!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/two-tourists-got-legionnaires-disease-100000306.html

Did I mention West Nile Virus is in Collier County Florida???

https://abc-7.com/news/health/2021/10/01/human-case-of-west-nile-virus-found-in-collier-county/

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 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 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!