Lying Lou

You guys remember Lou right?

"Hello!"

Our beautiful Green-wing Macaw that wants to eat me in his spare time? I was not the only woman Lou had no use for. In fact, He tolerated me being around, which is far better then he was with most women he met.

Until.... My sister showed up.

Let me explain... No, there is too much. Let me sum up.

We took Lou to my sister's house, for lots of reasons, none of which matter anymore. He was intrigued by her. Watching her every move, very calm when she was close by, agitated when she would walk away. It was interesting to watch, these were things he had never done before, for anyone.

My sister was taken with him, and with the thoughts of maybe getting Lou to tame down some and be more social we decided to let him stay with her for a little while, to see how it worked out.

Well... I don't think we are getting our bird back.

In 24 hours after leaving him there, this is what we were treated to on Facebook...

Can you feel the hate and loathing? 

*Not Lou's, but mine.*

 Oh wait! Is he gonna eat her!! 

*this looks promising* 

 No, it's the got yer beak game!

*cries*

Hugging...really?!? 

*now your just rubbing it in.*

All kidding aside, Lou is happy, and that makes me happy, even if I have yet another thing to envy my sister about. ;-)

Taking Time

Digger is a beautiful Blue Quaker. I have been working with her for a few weeks now trying to get her to step up and in general be more social with me and less scared of people. It's been very slow going. I have noticed that with smaller birds it always takes longer to get them used to people, probably because they are small and we are huge in their eyes.

I have been very lucky with digger. She doesn't bite, heck she barely even nibbles. So if she ends up on the floor I can just pick her up and carry her back to her perch on the play stand. Makes life so much better if I am not bleeding all over the place. =D Besides, blood would muck up her feathers and she's so pretty I wouldn't want that. ;-)

"Ain't I perdy!"

This was the first time I got her to stay on the bird stand. Not only did she hang out there for an hour...she hung out there with 4 other birds for an hour! Only one of said birds was hand tame so getting them all there was an adventure in and of it's self. XD

Here are 4 of the 5, bottom left is Toro (Jenday Conure), top left is Digger (Blue Quaker). Right front is London (Green Cheek Conure) and next to him is Zora (Peach Front Conure) both of whom decided that this was the right moment to turn away from the camera. D=

Digger and I had a little, short lived break through today. She and Zora were climbing around their cages and for what ever reason got spooked taking to the skies. Zora zipped past me and landed on the floor near my bedroom. Digger landed on the arm of my chair next to me, stayed about a minute before panicking and flying away and landing on Echo's cage, which in turn had me panicking. (Everyone is fine, got digger off his cage rather quickly.)

So, were working on it. Small steps every day. It takes time to earn trust back, and I have lots of time to work on it. =D

What makes a man sexy?

Rachel Ray once said that "The most sexy thing a man can do is wash the dishes." I am not sure if there have been others saying this but I have always believed it. John, my sweet loving husband does the dishes often making him, in my eyes, the sexiest man in the world. But last weekend he did something else, that improved on his sexy and skyrocketed himself into the sexiest man in the galaxy!!

What did he do? One might ask how could someone gain such an elite status in one simple weekend? I'll tell you how..he fixed my house! XD Well, started to fix the house at least, and I HAVE PROOF!!!

His project was the back porch stairs. They needed to be moved from one end of the porch to the other and the ones that were there were all rotting and unstable, so finally...he fixed them. YEY!

Here he is after realizing that he needed 2, 5 tier risers and not 2, 4 tier risers. He had to go back to Lowes to get them. Which made him very happy indeed. ;-)

 Here John shows off his macho new sexy status. :-)

Always the comedian, John takes a moment to give a demonstration of what would happen if I tried to get up and down the stairs before he was done with them.

Yea yea, Har Har! :-P Yer loosing some of them sexy points there buck-o.

John displays his cat-like balance and climes the risers to get some more tools. (You can also see in the background of these last few shoots the frame work for the aviary. Another project just waiting for a influx of money to complete.)

The finished project...kinda. The two old boards there in the middle were the only two boards from the old steps not rotten through. They will be replaced with new boards once John has time to cut some more 2x4s.

Slow and steady, the house is coming together. Next project, ceiling fan in the kitchen!!!!