Lovely Weekend!

A lovely weekend! Just lovely!

Had a very nice weekend this past few days. We didn’t actually do a lot, some housecleaning and such, but mostly getting used to our new African Grey Buddi. The background on this bird is quite sketchy, but he is a cool bird none the less. It came about that Phoenix got this bird from its owner because the owner got a job traveling and just didn’t have time to spend with him, so he ended up at the shop being kenneled more then not. In a fit of guilt, the owner asked Phoenix if she would take him, and Phoenix said heck ya! (Well ok, it was approximately something like that). The former owner said that the bird was four years old or so, but she found the bird walking down the road one day, so we expect he is quite older. He is much bigger then Adonis, and has an odd beak (looks like the nose on a mob thug in my opinion) He was on an all seed diet, so his feathers (as you can see in the photo) are a bit worn and yucky, but we are getting him on routybush and going to be giving him Vitamin supplement. The big news this weekend is that we are going to be getting another bird from the boarding room, a huge (and I mean huge for even this bird) Umbrella Cockatoo. He has been in the back of the store, and has plucked all his feathers except down and head feathers. We are going to pick him up today, along with a new cage or two, a huge one for him and a larger cage for Buddi. We will have to get one for Zorah eventually, but not for another month or so. (Cages are expensive! What a racket! Even making them out of wire myself isn’t as cheap as it should be!)

Speaking of cages, we were kicking around an idea for a bird boarding business… Need a lot more cages for that!

Birds birds birds birds! OY!

Stopped by Martin’s late Sat. and helped him put together his spiff new all oak bar table… (very nice), hit the flea market looking for deals (seedless watermelon for $1.50 was this week’s find) completely revamped the bird room and the living room to make more room for more cages, put collars on our cats and introduced them to the great outdoors (talk about freaked out cats! But hey, there are too many birds around for them to be underfoot). Watched Master and Commander on TV, and of course Law and Order once or twice

Not a bad weekend at all…