Cuddly bird-physical contact needed

I am really pleased that Jasper has settled down so much. She’s doing a couple of tricks, stayed out for an hour we it’s me and watched some Monty Python, then went back into her cage quite calmly. Rode around on my shoulder, putting dishes into the sink and food back into the refrigerator.

I was shocked by my yellowish-green color when I looked in the mirror. I mean I realize this happens when you have dark hair and light skin, but green? Jesus H. Christ, I’ve been eating oranges dnd sleeping all weekend. This is ridiculous! If anything, I should be orange.

I’m watching more Monty Python; a colonel in the British Army is being extorted for ten bob a week by the Mob. And now, Full Frontal Nudity, an intimate review…”I paid for it, and I’m going to get some.”.

Somehow, a mob is now singing “Jerusalem.” We will have a good, clean, healthy outdoor sketch. The gossiping hermits were just kicked offscreen by the colonel. Oh no. Graham Cleese is walking into a pet store to complain.

Where are you? US doesn’t have Thanksgiving for a month.

I’m thinking of throwing a small Thanksgiving party. I think a really good stuffing with cranberries and nuts and onions and maybe apples would be SO GOOD: but I am conflicted about Thanksgiving turkey because turkeys and chickens are treated badly.

I think Thanksgiving in October would be nice. It seems in US it just joins the general slide into “the holiday season”.

My birds are getting lots of fresh vegetables and seem to be really enjoying them. And if Willow is too picky to eat something, Jasper will.suck it down. She is definitely a good eater and quite a little chunk of a bird!

Willow is on my lap right now, on his basket. He just finished his treat and is now crunching his beak. He is cuddled up against my face next to my eye. He loves to sit like that especially if I hold him in my hand and rub his jaw with my thumb. He errrr’s occasionally and he seems very relaxed.

Yes, I still have a cold, but my color looks a bit better. I think maybe I was super dehydrated yesterday. Now I look slightly pink and human. It’s SO ANNOYING that whenever I’m around a group of people, I get sick. Sometimes you DO need to be in public just to function.

Willow is sharing my tea. I will let him have a drink if my drink doesn’t have milk or much sugar. And now my eyebrow and eyelashes are being groomed, he’s licking my nose very thoroughly.What a goofy bird! I did wash my face this morning so I don’t know what there is for him to lick.

Part of preening may be more like parrots licking their individual feathers as they clean and straighten them. In that case, Willow is probably worried that he will never get me all preened. Although, I bet if all the feathers on a bird were laid out, to cover a flat area, a little Quaker parakeet’s feathers would cover much more area than a human.

Well, happy late Thanksgiving! I hope you had a nice get together with your family and a delicious meal. I’m cooking up some chicken and wild rice soup this evening, and found a chicken and wild rice casserole with apples that could easily use turkey. I think the side dishes and desserts are the best part of Thanksgiving dinner.

It would be great to get several friends together for aThanksgiving meal. We’ve got more than a month to plan. I want to make sure all my friends who want a dinner together can have one.

I still have a bad cold. Today I’m watching a Beavis and Butthead compilation with Willow. I’m glad that he isn’t much of a talker because the language doesn’t need repeating. Much less “Heh Heh heheh Heh Heh”.

Willow’s enjoying a jaw massage and being held inside my right hand. If I slack off on petting him, he gives me a headbutt. He just loves his daily head rub and looks like he’s smiling!

Both birds have been wanting bed earlier as it’s getting dark earlier. Only a couple of weld until the time change. I have had a bad cold and been feeling lousy for a couple of weeks now. So birds did not get much attention at all today which is very unusual and in my opinion, not at all good.

It was a rather bright and sunny day and the living room was nicely lit up for both birds. Willow is definitely trying to weave or arrange his new zip ties. His toys and sticks in his toy box must all be JUST SO. And he’s begun to play with a dangly octopus toy. Jasper needs a new installation of THINGS TO CHEW UP and at the beginning of the month I may buy them both some foraging toys.

I have been watching videos about training partots to wear a harness, but I don’t know if I will ever try it again with Willow. Before spring I will purchase a bird backpack and set it up for him. I’ve got one all picked out and I think he may like that. I guess we’ll have to see. Ertaiy if we are walking on the pedestrian mall, it should be ok for him.

I have two (!) drs appointments next week and two the week after that, so I’m sure someone will figure out what’s going on. I think this is mostly sinusitis. And bacteria growing in your head make you feel crappy.

Birds had a nice long visit and cuddles for both today. I had a couple big apples that I cut up and ate with some nice sharp cheddar and nuts for dinner. Willow got very excited when he saw those apples and just had to have apple, a LOT of apple. When he wasn’t sitting on the edge of the plate chewing on the peelings or eating the flesh around the core, I had to HOLD the apple chunk so mr precious did not get his foot sticky. Jasper was happy to hold her apple chunk in her foot.

Sometimes I don’t know where Willow puts it. Hollow leg, I guess. He really sucked down a lot of apple! Yes, he got lots and lots of cuddles. We watched more of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. I think I’ve hit a boring couple of dvd’s. And man, those fellows make some ugly women in house dresses and wigs.

Maybe tomorrow I’ll expose the birds’ fragile young minds to “the Beavis and Butthead Collection”. Heh he he Heh hehe Heh. Yeah!

I really do have some sophisticated taste, but I enjoy. nice helping of stupid as well.

Today has been an anxious day. Willow kept nipping me today and I just could not get him to settle down. Then I figured it out. I was anxious so he was anxious.

I fed Willow his favorite hot pepper high potency pellets and he enjoyed chowing down on a few bunches/ handfuls until he was content and began crunching his beak and then grooming. We had a nice break before I went to a library to vote. It wasn’t busy around noon.

Birds have been sleeping for a long time and I’m watching an animated show and waiting on results. Oh god this is close.

My dad forwarded me an article about Peanut the squirrel, who unnecessarily met his end very recently. Rabies is very rare in rodents and clinical signs are very very obvious. What a shame. Grey squirrels are certainly not endangered and it doesn’t matter if one squirrel is not in the breeding population. In fact, it’s a good thing.

I think this is cruel and making an example of this one squirrel, person, or family.

RIP Peanut. May you find many nuts and bird eggs in squirrel paradise.

Nice to spend quality time with both parrots. While Quakers can typically tolerate lower temperatures, at least for a short time, it's best not to take chances. Better for Willow to stay indoors.

Not all parrots like to be kissed. If I'd tried that with either George or Scooter, I would have received an unwanted lip piercing.