People always will speak their minds!

 

Brave Florida students speak out! So important to read and listen...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/college-florida-show-defiance-grads-000200473.html

The hate goes on being perpetrated on, on, and on..! Someone, please stop it!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/jewish-democrats-call-mccarthy-censure-151312814.html

4 Reasons people are not retiring to Florida anymore...!

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/4-reasons-florida-no-longer-183019248.html

Thinking positive thoughts, positive thoughts he will go to JAIL!!!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-former-trump-white-house-135239099.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-might-not-able-idiocy-010155170.html

Los Angeles Times weighs in on Florida Gubernator someone else's opinion!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/letters-editor-ron-desantis-fits-100021840.html

Dear Senator Feinstein's health was worse than disclosed!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/dianne-feinstein-health-complications-shingles-senate-what-to-know-180816339.html

On our own homefront... Hubby's seawall repair! Those engineered test cylinders were first used as a seawall when we bought this home 24-plus years ago and held up well until Hurricane Ian had its way with it! I was able to procure them for free from a local engineering firm that just wanted to get rid of them. At the time we had a full-sized Chevy Silverado pickup truck and so I made several trips filling up the back of that truck... they even helped me put them in! Hubby at the time was still working as a deputy for the sheriff's office! That is why I had to make several trips over several days... we saved a fortune then and now too! Many pay over 100k for new seawalls these days! This time besides stacking them Hubby intends on using cement as well as several yards of dirt to fill in between as well! Imagine that the dry stacking lasted all these years what the newer process will last will be so much longer!

1. is the nearly completed portion

2. some extra cylinders more all over scattered.

3. damaged portion Hubby still working on.

4. more damaged area with raft for staging and pulling out cylinders that fell back into the water...they seemed to be all there!

*This is not an easy job Hubby is now into his seventies and each cylinder weighs about ten pounds!

Yesterday, I  had a dermatology appointment in Punta Gorda just about four miles away from our home, on the way back I photographed the progress being made at the SunSeeker Resort, just 2.7 miles from our home!

 MY MUSES are below!

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 for its fun, so I will 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 was supposed to be a miniature Australian Shepherd, but as you might know, I AM NOT! 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 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.

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 that go along with 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 on 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, 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!