We are getting ready for a new floor in our bedroom next week.  Getting ready of the yucky carpet and putting in a laminated wood floor.  Woohoo!  Moving all the furniture out and living like gypsies for a few days while the floor guys are here won't be fun but we'll manage.

 

Twiggy and Glory are enjoying the summer and getting outside every afternoon in their sleepy-cages for some sun-bathing.  Don and I are taking the time to sit with them and sip lemonade and enjoy the garden together.....I think it's called taking time to stop and smell the flowers.....

 

We have had a wonderful crop of baby canaries and many of the darker yellow ones are moulting out to be a  brilliant orangy-gold.  Obviously a throwback to a red factor in their genes somewhere.  di

Hi I'm new here and I am assuming this is the check in place!!  So here I am checking in!!!

Oh good, Kenbuns, We love it when new folks start dropping in on these threads.

 

Maya, Katz has a 6 day a week job now plus her computer fried and I don't think she has gotten a new one yet.

 

Nay is still not feeling like posting, but I hope she will return soon.

 

I haven't seen Bill and Angel in a long time. I hope he will drop in and update us as to their health.

 

Toolady has some family problems and is still cleaning up after those nasty hurricanes. I hope she will be back soon.

 

It's so miserably hot and dry here in Oklahoma. Gonna do a rain dance soon.

Annie

 

hi all.  i know, its been awhile!  been a bit busy with critters, etc.  got a digital camera last year so have lots of pics i need to post; hopefully i can getthose up soon.

 

hope everyones having a great summer.  its been so hot and dry here, at least july was.  june was cool and wet.

Hello Everybirdie--hope everyone is well.

 

The flock is doing ok. Forrest has gone through another breeding season and this year decided to sit on 3 eggs (unfertile) for a month. When she got off them, I disposed of them, and she stated into another cycle, so I had to get her a depo-p shot to curb another round of egglaying.

Sophie developed some kind of bacterial infection and was vomiting up her dinner, so she has been on antibiotics for a week. Is keeping everything down now, and acting like her normal self, so looks like she'll be ok. Will still keep a close eye on her.

Angel has finished the worst of the chemos, had her last Taxol infusion two weeks ago, and now has 44 weeks of Herceptin to go along with an oral med (not sure what it is) that she will take for 5 years. All tests have come up clean as far as active cancer cells. She doesn't have much energy, and sleeps a lot, especially after the treatments, but is in good spirits.

I'm hoping that she will get some strength back before the end of the treatments (sooner the better) so that I can go ahead and have the hip surgery. It's getting worse, but I'm still managing to work full time. Few more falls and I have my doubts whether I'll be able to keep it up, though. No complaints-her condition and treatment is a lot more important than a bit of pain, so that takes precedence.

 

Hope to see you in chat from time to time, when I can sit still for a bit.     Bill 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He there..I'm enjoying the summer.  Well, that is except it's been so darn hot and humid for about a month now.  I've been wanting to put the birds outside and start up my self cleaning oven, but it's too hot to leave them out there for any length of time.  I tried today for a couple of hours, but then it got too hot and Gizmo (CAG) had wings away from body and mouth open, so I brought him in.

 

Took Gizmo to a couple of pet stores with me to keep him socialized.  I let him hold onto the handle of the buggy in the store (whenever I stopped)  Apparently Pets Mart doesn't get very many birds at all..mostly dogs, and a few cats.  Oh well..needless to say, Gizmo got LOTS of head scritches.  He's all tuckered out now.

Dianne

Hello to you all.  I've been away for a very long time.  Not much to report going on in my life.  I did add a Goffin 'Too to my birds over a year ago.  He's a 11 year old rehome.  This is his third and final home and both my husband and I adore him, even though he can be a pain sometimes when he decides to be in a biting kind of mood.  Nice to see some old members, and there are so many newbies.  Will try to get back here on a more regular basis.

 

Barbara

We will be adding a new member to the flock, approx. 1 yr CAG named Ellie.  My mother-in-law has decided to bring her here.  The current environment is not a healthy one with tobacco smoke and just not appreciated by other family members.  I think it takes great currage to do what is right for our feathered friends, loving them requires a an unselfish desire to do what is right, regardless of the joy we share with our featered companions.  We currnetly have a CAG, B&G Macaw, Blue Front and YellowNaped Amazons, and will always welcome a new CAG, so much entertainment.  Yes, we will rearrange the furniture again, making room for one more.

 

 

Since I've been emulating Don Quixote most of my life, this is a perfect project for me.  The Romanian government doesn't have the money to make sweeping changes but we're hoping that they'll see the practicality of asking for volunteers to assist with some of the work and to offer knowledge.  It will be most interesting, I think, to see how this all plays out.