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Androids in Anipal Land, Part 1

7/28/2017

 
Dear Anipals:

I almost delayed posting this after news broke today confirming that Disco the Parakeet passed away. I changed my mind because I thought no, my pals on Twitter have been through so much that we need Anipal Land now to lift our spirits. I created Anipal Land several years ago after creating a goofy story with Zack that included our Twitter pals. Rick told me I should write it, and Anipal Land was born. 

I enjoyed writing these stories because they're a lot of fun. In fact, the entire point of Anipal Land is to create a safe space for my Twitter friends to relax and have fun with silly adventures. It's supposed to be completely silly and fun. It's suppose to make you laugh. And I hope that you do. 

So in memory of Alice, Penne, and Disco. In  honor of all of you who have been through hardship, pain and grief. For all of you who we've comforted and prayed for - this one's for  you. And, I believe, this may be my silliest one yet! I certainly hope so. I hope it makes you smile. 

And without further ado, I proudly present Androids in Anipal Land, Part 1 - introducing new pals Bubbles, Morty, and Daenerys Stormbird and featuring our "partners in crime" Zack, Jinx, Coco, and Quarkybirdy. Look for more pals in future installments. 

Luv,


Sherri (mommy)

Part 1 (July 27, 2017)

“Miss Chloe! You have to help us!” Daenerys Stormbird rushed from the outer field of peppers and herbs.

“What’s wrong, Daenerys?” Chloe set her basket of berries on the ground.

“It’s Queenie. Some see!”

Chloe followed Daenerys toward the pepper field, followed by everybody else, wondering what new adventure was awaiting Anipal Land. Sure enough, the screams originated from the Queen of Bavaria conure that Morty and Coco were holding down. Queenie’s eyes flared as she screamed.

“The end is upon us! They’ll get us all!”

“Fantastic,” Bubbles said. “I wonder whose after us this time. Shall I whack her, or are we going to wait for this to make some sense?”

Chloe stepped over to Queenie. Queenie growled. “Chloe, my old enemy! I’ll feast on your flesh!”

“You aren’t fighting off Morty and Coco, so I wonder how you intend to feast on my flesh.”

“Oh,” Queenie said. “You’re Kung-fu is strong. It’s a powerful deterrent.”

“I’ll say,” Coco chuckled, remembering Chloe throwing Queenie through the chandelier in the first Anipal Land adventure when she surprised them with her powerful fighting skills. It was still a favorite story.

Queenie shuddered, smoke coming out of her ears. “They’ll make us all burn!”

“Who?” Bubbles asked.

“Ok ladies, we got this,” Zack said as he and Jinx made their way through the crowd. He put a foot on Queenie’s chest as Jinx shoved a pill in Queenie’s beak.

“Down the hatch, Mellow Yellow,” Jinx said, squeezing water from a small bottle down her throat.

Queenie’s breathing slowed. Soon, she was calm enough again to stand on her own without blowing smoke from her ears.
“What happened?”

“Mommy’s Prolosec!” Zack said. “But why did you need it? Were you nabbing raw peppers from the field again?”

“Again?” Morty asked. “Has this happened before?”

“Not this bad,” Chloe said. “Queenie, do you have the pepper you ate?”

Queenie dropped it from under her wing. Chloe bent and sniffed it. “Smells strong!” she said. She licked it, stood upright, and breathed fire from her beak.

“Cool!” Bubbles said. “Let me try!”

“Not a chance,” Morty said. “Something is definitely wrong with the peppers. I wonder what happened? We may need to check the field.”

“Definitely high acid,” Chloe croaked, steam flowing from her ears.

“Has somebody been tampering with our crops again?” Quarkybirdy asked.

“The berries from the next field seem fine,” Daenerys said. “That pepper field is near the woods, just beside the yarn bird perimeter.”

“I haven’t seen anything strange on the footage,” Coco said. “No intruder alerts have gone off.”

“It sounds like we have another adventure upon us,” Zack said, sniffing the pepper. He tilted his head. “Look at this. It looks like something is burrowed in it.”

Jinx bent down to study the pepper. “What is that? It looks like a small robot.”

Bubbles bent to lick the pepper, but Morty grabbed her and pulled her away. “No more testing the peppers, especially if there are robots in them.”

“Nanotech,” Bubbles said.

“What?” Morty asked.

Bubbles pointed to the pepper. “That’s nanotech. Small machines that embed in biological matter to enhance function. In this case, it makes the pepper hotter.”

“You could tell this from looking at it?” Quarkybirdy asked.

“I could tell more if you’d let me test it in my lab.”

“You have a lab?” Jinx asked.

“She loves science,” Chloe said, “you’d be amazed at what she’s got.”

Bubbles stood up straight. “I’m Boom Bird.”

“You most certainly are,” Morty said. “So somebody put nanotech in the peppers. Who did it, and why?”

“Or what did it,” Jinx said. “This isn’t science that humans have worked out this well yet, at least outside the realm of science fiction.”

“This is Anipal Land. Crazy stuff happens,” Zack said. “But this is new and different. Whoever did it managed to get beyond Coco’s yarn bird guards, which was no easy task.”

“That, or they managed to hack into the yarnbirds and alter the video feeds and alerts,” Chloe said.

“That’s possible,” Quarkybirdy said. “We only have basic antivirus protection on our systems. We don’t really have problems with hacking, at least not until now. I’ll look into it.”

“In the meantime, you might want to look into that,” Chloe said, pointing to the outer perimeter just beyond the yarnbirds.

Jinx squinted. “What’s that?”

The trees swayed and shuddered as a line of puppets emerged from the trees.

“Hey anipals!” they said. “What time is it?”

Everybody stared. The nearby clock tower chimed three times.

“Three o’clock?” Morty said.

A fireball erupted from the field, collapsing the puppets into charred wood and plastic. Bubbles stood in the now-empty pepper field, spraying flames at the last of the emerging puppets. She hiccupped, sending a puff of smoke from her ears.
"Yep, nanotech,” she said.

“I told you she was crazy,” Morty said.

“Wait,” Daenerys said, “I know that should be totally ok after what I’m named from. But Bubbles, a Moncks Parakeet and not a dragon, ate a field of hot peppers and breathed fire on a puppet army coming out of the woods. That’s crazy.”

“Like I said –“ Morty said.

Chloe patted Daenerys on the back. “Welcome to Anipal Land!”

“I may be feisty, but I’m also smart,” Bubbles said, spitting out the robots. “Maybe this holds some of the answers.”

​Chloe flapped her wings to disperse the smoke coming from Bubbles blast. “You boom alright, baby sister,” she said, “but you did good; I guess. Let’s get this and one of those puppets to Quarkybirdy’s lab and see what we’ve got.”

Buttprints

7/22/2017

 
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Well finally, we have a blog update! Mommy's meeting has come and gone, and Grandma's move is wrapping up. Both parronts have been so tired this week that I think I saw smoke coming off of them by the time they got home from work on Thursday! Whew! To say they've crashed would be an understatement. Mommy took yesterday off, and they pretty much did nothing all day (daddy has Friday's off in June - July). They did try to get the tires fixed on the truck, but the place had to order the tires, so they said to heck with it, went out to lunch, came home, and crashed. Both recliners have a heck of a buttprint on them from partaking of the HBO app for the rest of the day. Well, why not? We're paying for it. We may as well get more than Game of Thrones out of it these next couple of months. 

It's amazing how the human mind recovers in a similar way to the body. It seems that getting over stress is a lot like getting over being sick or hurt. I remember mommy crashing in the recliner like that when she had a sinus infection just after New Year's Day. She was tired a lot then, too, but it was cold instead of this raging heat that we have now. Humans can be very interesting sometimes.

She also said to tell you that the Anipal Land story is still coming. She still has ideas, and plans to get on it soon. She just needs a little more time for her poor brain to recover from everything between work and other writing projects. Heck, she's been too tired to whine about not being at San Diego Comic Con, like she does every year. Someday you will, mommy. I'm sure your writing will get you there one day soon! We believe in you! (If you get out of the chair, that is.)

That's all today. Take care, and have a wonderful weekend. 

Luv,

​Bubbles 

Taking Care of Parronts

7/13/2017

 
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We’re taking care of parronts this week. The fallout from the kitchen leak has been fixed – the wall hole has been patched and painted, but work has been busy for them as well. That’s been a tough one for both of them. Mommy’s supposed to be going into an easier time since her June deadlines passed, but she has a meeting next week that continues to grow to ridiculous proportions. And this is supposed to be a slow time of year for daddy to prepare for his busy time in August – September, but he’s been hit with several projects and overcoming obstacles with conflicting schedules. Plus, his mother is in the process of moving to a smaller home. Mommy feels like all she hears is "make it happen," and daddy feels like all he hears is “help!” or "do it NOW."
 
All in all, it’s been a heck of a week for them.
 
Birdy buddies to the rescue! We’ve been working to bring them comfort and joy at home. I’ve been a snuggly joy, Chloe has been a sweetie pie, and Bubbles has really been hamming it up for them: talking, playing, whistling, and being overall spunky-cute. They love it. It’s always nice to be there for them, and I’m glad we’re doing our job well and making them happy at home, at least.
 
Mommy did finish the work on her novels, and plans to start on that new Anipal Land story soon. She needs a break and has that monster meeting to deal with next Wednesday, so the plan is to start it after that. She gave us an overview last night and it’s good. You’re going to love it. This summer has inspired some real shenanagins in Anipal Land, and we hope to have a joyous one to share with you in the coming weeks. I think we could all use it!
 
That’s what’s happening in our corner of the world. I hope you’re doing well. Have a Happy Friday tomorrow, and a wonderful weekend.
 
Luv,
 
Zack

Good News For You

7/10/2017

 
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We had an adventure this past weekend – another leak. This time, it was the water line to the downstairs toilet. And getting the plumber out there was a 24 hour ordeal with plenty of excuses and complaints. For some reason, they thought that water running in the walls and under the floor wasn’t important. Mommy disagreed. It got a bit uncomfortable. And in the end, it took a little over an hour of their precious time to fix it.
 
People can be ridiculous sometimes!
 
But mommy learned an important lesson from this. She’s tired of being disrespected and taken for granted, and this incident (in combination with a few other things that have happened over the past couple of months) has convinced her to be much more discerning in her decisions and interactions. Revelation #1 has been interesting and harkens back to Sigmund Freud’s advice that “before you diagnose yourself with depression make sure that you are not, in fact, surrounded by ***holes.”
 
That's self evident, at least in her day to day reality. You guys are great. Others – not so much. So on we go to how to deal with such a realization. And the key is simple: appreciate whose good to you, and minimize whose bad. Mommy has a personal belief that is somebody’s bad to you, then you should find somebody whose good to you and pass along gratitude and blessing to keep good things going. So on that note, I have some good news for YOU.
 
Remember that storybook scrapbook that mommy was planning to make for a co-worker’s baby shower? That’s scrapped. Mommy did one for a coworker 10 years ago. Everybody loved it – except the recipient. She tossed it aside without so much as a comment and went on to goo-goo over next present of diapers and baby socks. She’s even been in contact with a friend who witnessed this event. The friend told her to invest her time in writing and publishing stories for an appreciative audience, not giving them to people who don’t ‘get it.’ Grandmommy added to this by saying that we (birdies) are mommy’s personal business and none of theirs. And furthermore, a person who values $300 coffee makers isn’t likely to appreciate a bird storybook. This person isn’t her audience and definitely isn’t her friend. We are.
 
Her loss – but your gain. Mommy pondered this advice a step further and guess what? Another Anipal Land story is in the works! She decided that she wouldn’t do the scrapbook, but she would write another Anipal Land story for her buddies right here, who love and appreciate it (best of all, you’ll be in it). She’s finishing up some work on her other projects, and hopes to have this story here in the next month or so.
 
So get ready for another adventure! In the meantime, we’ll help mommy work on this story, and help Bubbles work on her spaceship (with a neural interface). It’s gonna be awesome – and hilarious, as usual in Anipal Land.
 
That’s all today. Take care, and have a great week.
 
Luv,
 
Chloe 

Phooey on Fireworks!

7/6/2017

 
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​Dear Humans:
 
I understand that the 4th of July is a major holiday for you. It’s the only big summer holiday, and some hold it more sacred than Christmas (but not Thanksgiving – everybody wants to eat). It does make sense to celebrate our Independence and to enjoy the fruits of summer. However, there’s one thing I have a problem with.
 
Do you have to reinact the Revolutionary War every 4th of July?
 
You call it “fireworks,” but it sounded more like a war out there! I couldn’t tell whether all of those explosions were from the 1812 Overture on A Capitol Fourth, or the drunk igits around us blowing up massive amounts of money to pollute the environment. And by the way, why do they play a song by a Russian composer during the Capitol Fireworks? Then the neighbors dogs started barking and whining, creating a camphony of insanity out there. Thanks goodness Zack, Chloe and I live inside the home with our humans!
 
You humans are crazy. Zack and Chloe have adapted to this nonsense, but it was too much for me. I hid in my happy hut. Daddy had to pry me out with my step-up stick yesterday morning. Phooey on fireworks!
 
I’m ok now. My flock soothed me, and mommy gave us all a good cage cleaning to go with the good housecleaning she did last weekend, so the place is spiffy clean and comfortable. I just wonder how many other anipals had trauma over fireworks, besides our neighbors dogs? I hear it’s a problem with them, and with some humans too. At least, for now, it’s over.
 
That’s all today. Take care. Have a Happy Friday tomorrow and a wonderful weekend.
 
Luv,
 
Bubbles

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