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Yay for Summer!

5/30/2013

 
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The calendar may say it’s the spring days of May flowers, but the weather in South Carolina is already singing summer. The temperatures are already warming up to the eighties and low nineties, the pollen has slacked off, and most telling: the wind and rain have stopped. Mommy always says the air dries up and stops moving when it gets hot here, and darn if she isn’t right. 

It’s alright with me. I like the sunshine, and I find the longer days pleasant. We have air conditioning, so the heat and humidity don’t burn or droop our feathers (although mommy is known to give us more frequent baths when the weather warms up – now why does she do that?” Mommy moves my cage to the big window every morning when we get up since the sun is coming up then, and I get over 3 hours of time when they get home from work. I love it! There are always birds at the feeder, and squirrels hanging around under it trying to catch some wayward seed. Chloe’s up on all the hot gossip with our outside buddies. The bluebirds are raising their young in the house out back, and there are even a couple of Carolina wrens that perch on the picnic table and back stair banister and sing to me several times a day. Ah yes, summertime, full of life, activity and fun!

I say hooray for spring and summer. It’s the best time of the year. There’s a lot going on and much to enjoy during this pleasant and festive season. And as a bonus, my birthday is on June 24th. I’ll be
three and if Chloe’s recent birthday is any indication then we will have gifts, celebrations, and partying again soon. Yay!

I hope you’re doing well. Have a happy Friday tomorrow and a great weekend. 

Luv,

Ollie


Thanks to All Who Serve!

5/26/2013

 
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I'd like to take a moment this Memorial Day weekend to bob my head in approval of all those who have or do serve in the U.S. Armed Forces, and to respectfully honor those who have died to protect our freedom. We can't thank you enough for the great sacrifices you have and continue to make to protect our freedom.

So while you're celebrating this long weekend as the "unofficial start of summer," please remember that you enjoy your time at the beach, on the lake, at the bar-b-que, or celebrating with family, friends and neighbors because of the men and women in uniform that protect your freedom to enjoy the liberties that are a part of everyday life. I'd give every one of you winghugs, and send up wingprayers for the protection of you and your family in honor of the protection you offer us.

Thanks to all who serve, and who have served! May God bless you and your family above and beyond all you can imagine and give you protection, grace, and favor this day and always.

Be safe, everybody, and enjoy your weekend.

Luv,

Chloe

Ready for a Long Weekend!

5/24/2013

 
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Yea, birdy buddies, we sure are ready for the long weekend here! Of course, you know  me. Any reason to celebrate is a good one. I'm a party bird. I think I enjoyed Chloe's birthday more than she did. I love to celebrate!

And why not? When you're a pet bird, life is good. We've got it made. And now mommy and daddy are going to be home with us for 3 whole days. Yippee! Let the free play fun time begin! Sleeping in, followed by preening, playing, hanging out on daddy's shoulder and listening to Ollie sing, showing Chloe how to properly destroy her toys - these are a few of MY favorite things!

I'm excited. Life is good and now it's a long weekend and summertime. Hooray!

I hope you've all had a happy Friday and that you have a good weekend planned. Be safe and have fun if you're traveling. If you aren't (like us), then enjoy the extra time to rest and do some things you want to do.

Have a great weekend.

Luv,

Zack

Celebrations!

5/19/2013

 
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Our house is full of celebrations these days! Mommy and daddy celebrated their 15th wedding anniversary on Thursday, May 16. We decided to call it "flock formation day" so we could all join in the fun. They took a couple of days off work, and it was so nice to have them at home. We're getting spoiled! It's going to be tough when they go back to work tomorrow (maybe).

Then on Friday our friend, Disco the Parakeet, was on The Today Show. We all sat in front of the TV and watched. It was so exciting to see him on TV, and to see his fine flock too! He has a lovely family, he performed superbly, and best of all, he said on Twitter and Facebook that he had a lot of fun doing it - which is the most important thing.

Mommy and daddy went to see Star Trek Into Darkness on Friday. They liked it so much that they took some friends from out of town to the theater to see it Saturday. They won't shut up about that movie. Really, they were impressed. It must be good. I can't wait to see it when we can get it on our Apple TV. Mommy said she'd buy it on iTunes just as soon as it comes out. But her walking around the house saying "shall we begin?" is a bit creepy. That must be one heck of a villain they have in that movie. She said there's another scene that will make it obvious who in the theater was a Trekkie and who wasn't. But I can't say which one it is because I don't want to throw out any spoilers for those that haven't seen it yet.

Today was church. It's the first Sunday in Pentecost, which is a celebration of the day the Holy Spirit came to us. Big festival service - mommy and daddy were at church longer than usual. Then it was time for mommy to get back to work to get ready for the week. She bought groceries, cleaned the house, and checked her work email. I'm glad she got groceries early, because we had a nasty storm around 4:00 that dumped 4.5 inches of rain on us in 45 minutes. It just went on and on and on. The driveway flooded, but thankfully we have a gravel driveway, so it's already drained off. I think there's more chances of rain tonight and tomorrow. I sure hope  our friends in the mid-west are safe. We saw some scary things about tornados in there on The Weather Channel earlier! If you don't have a NOAA weather radio, it might be a good idea to get one. You can also set your smartphone to get weather alerts through The Weather Channel app too. As for us, we're fine, and the house is clean too.

Tomorrow is my birthday! Actually, it's a celebration of the day mommy and daddy adopted me. I'm already 10, but we celebrate on May 20 because that was my "gotcha day" in 2010. It's hard to believe it's been 3 years! I love it here. This is a great home and my mommy and daddy are the best.

Speaking of that, mommy did finish the rough draft of her sci-fi novella, Incursion, last Monday. She knew it would be busy for the rest of last week, so she finished it in a big push at the beginning of the week before everything else took off. Good planning on her part, I think.

So that's what's happening in our corner of the world. I hope you're all doing well. Stay safe if you're in the path of the bad weather, and take care. I hope you have a good week.

Luv,

Chloe

Thanks Friends!

5/10/2013

 
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Hi everybody; I wanted to thank you for your kind tweets on my foot injury earlier this week. I'm much better and in fact, recovered quickly. I had a slip and fall when mommy took me out of my cage Sunday afternoon. It was an accident but fortunately, I was all better Monday morning. I just needed to rest my footsie. I've been doing very well since then.

Really, it's a little embarrassing, but mommy says it happens to us all. In fact, she said she took a bad step while shopping at Walmart on her lunch break Tuesday, and her foot's been sore for a few days too. Today is the first day it hasn't hurt her.

I know, we hens need to be more careful with our feet, right?

But thanks for your concern and kind words. We're both doing better and getting around quite well now.

I'm sorry to take a while to post this. Mommy's working on another writing project, and she's been spending most of her free time on that. It's a sci-fi novella (a short novel) that she's titled Incursion. You can see her blog for more on that. We're helping, of course. She says she plans for it to be 10 chapters and she's written 5 chapters so far, so the rough draft is half done. Unfortunately, she tends to fall behind on things like blogging and social media when she gets into these writing projects. I had a talk with her about it last night, but I'm  not sure if she got anything out of it because I was speaking conure and I'm pretty sure she doesn't understand conure (or parakeet for that matter, because she gives Ollie the same "I don't get it" look when he tries to speak to her in keet). But maybe she did get something out of it because she is, after all, typing this blog for me today :)

Mommy's off today for Confederate Memorial Day. I know, that's an odd holiday, but a day off is a day off, and we're glad to have the extra time with her. I think the state is required to give them so many days off each year and they ran out of other holidays, so they had to move on to obscure ones to get in the extra required day.

That's all for today. I hope you have a Happy Friday and that all of you mommies out there have a good Mother's Day.

Luv,

Chloe

Reasons to Squawk

5/6/2013

 
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Hi everybody, sorry it's been a while since we updated. Reason #1 is that mommy is working on a new writing project. It's a novella - that's basically a very short novel, around 15,000 - 20,000 words. She's calling it her summer project and is really excited about it. It's a sci-fi novel. Check out her blog for more on "the novella project" (she doesn't have a title for the piece yet and it's driving her crazy - hee hee!). She's only written a couple of chapters, and her first excerpt went up tonight. I hope you enjoy it. Of course, all of us birdies are helping. She talks to us about it a lot, running ideas by us and such. Helping mommy write is fun.

It's been busy in other ways too - there's lots to squawk about! Daddy got sick with a virus Thursday. Fortunately, it passed quickly and he was better Friday. They were happy it passed quickly too, because they went to Charleston, SC to see Iron Man 3 in IMAX 3D with some friends on Saturday. I was a little peevish about that because Iron Man is my favorite Avenger and they didn't take me. I had to stay home while the grandparents watched me! Oh well, I guess I'll catch it on streaming video in the fall. And I still get to keep up with my favorite DC Character, Oliver Queen aka The Green Arrow, every Wednesday on Arrow (CW on Wednesdays at 8!). Two more episodes until my namesake wraps up his first season and it's been great!

So they had fun seeing the movie and hanging out in downtown Charleston with their friends, but it's good it was a quick trip. It was rainy Sunday and mommy was cranky because she had to get groceries and while she was out, she started to feel bad. Lo and behold, she got the virus daddy has Thursday. Then once she got home and they unloaded the groceries, the power went out for 2 hours. No explanation for that little mystery, but it caused supper to be late. That meant no evening snack since they ate their meal late, so our Jiffy Pop reward for being good for the grandparents on Saturday has been deferred to tonight.

While the power outage snafu was in place, Chloe slipped and hurt her foot. Thank goodness, it must have been minor. She was gimpy last night but when she woke up this morning she seemed to be all better. Mommy was home sick so she kept an eye on Chloe. So far, so good. Chloe is getting around fine - walking, climbing, and playing without missing a beat. If anything she might be a little sleep deprived. Daddy came downstairs and checked on her at 3:30 a.m. That didn't sit well with any of us, but I guess he was worried.

Mommy did start feeling better around suppertime today, and we're glad. She felt good enough to give Zack a bath. Now he's mad. So I guess we've all had something to squawk about over the past 4 days. Oh well, life's like that sometimes. You keep on living.

So that's what's up in our corner of the world. I hope you're doing well and that you have a good week. Keep up with me on Twitter, as I've taken over the @ChloeConure account for a while. We mutually agreed to it. She wanted a break and I wanted the spotlight, so it all worked out!

That's all today. Take care and have a great week.

Luv,

Ollie

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