Sunday, January 7, 2024

Sunday, is egg day here!

 


Yes, we all have eggs, including the fur babies!

The three of them share one, while the two of us share 2, usually in an omelet. Today, it was cheddar for us, plain for them, all EBs, which stands for Eggland's Best.

 


Theirs was scrambled with water. You'd be surprised how water can spread that out to feed three little fur babies. (They also have kibbles twice a day! And the occasional treat.)

Sunday is a free day for us which means nothing planned except the eggs!

We have cut back on food considerably.

Six days a week we have cereal for breakfast, mine with a side of whey protein mixed drink, banana included, and Hubby's with milk. Hubby loves regular Cheerios and I prefer Special K with blueberries.

Lunch is our BIG meal/dinner. Everything from casseroles to yesterday's fare salmon baked potato or a sweet and squash or asparagus. 

Last night's dinner was Progresso's Lentil soup with saltines, with canned peaches in their own juices for dessert. 

I do enjoy making my homemade soup but in a crunch, Progresso has been great as well as Healthy Choice Campbell's. We have also been known to have peanut butter and jelly/jam sandwiches. Not only does it save on the grocery bill but on the waistline too!

Fresh fruit in between in the form of bananas and apples, canned  in the form of pears, peaches, and pineapples, and fruit cocktails all in their own juices never in the sugar 

Beverages in the forms of tea, coffee, Gatorade Zero, flattened seltzer water, spring water, and powdered whey protein drink. ( Best price at Walgreen's)

And we always buy bakery bread not the overly additive other bread.

Try hard to stay away from the Deli since the additives in the prepared foods are not very healthy. Cheese is there also which can be considered healthy. 

Although rotisserie chickens are not too bad, and save time and money without heating up the home in the warmer weather, now it would be a good idea with this cold front even here in Florida!

Just some money-saving and healthier ideas...

Let me introduce you to the crew...


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

3 months and ...now 6!    
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 six 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 eight 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 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 nine 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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