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Happy Birthday, Zack!

12/31/2015

Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday dear Zacchaeus!
Happy birthday to you!
And many more!
We want you to have many more!

Today is Zack's 16th birthday! Join us for a Twitter party at 3:00 p.m., Eastern Standard Time. Zack's handle is @wazzupzack and Chloe's handle is @chloeconure.

Zack has been with us since he was a chick of 6 weeks old, and has given us boundless joy ever since. We're so happy to celebrate with our handsome sunshine.

We also want to wish each and every one of our fantastic friends a safe and happy New Year! May you be blessed with abundance, prosperity, and joy in 2016 and beyond. Thanks for being great pals!

Luv,

Rick (daddy), Sherri (mommy), and Chloe

Merry Christmas!

12/28/2015

Ok, I know we're late with that. What can I say? It was a great, active Christmas with a ton of fun. As you saw on Twitter, Christmas morning, Santa was very good to us. We got chew toys, kabobs, and plenty of treats - we've been playing for days! Mommy and daddy gave us great chew toy gifts too, and popped a lot of popcorn, along with the other endless goodies that we stuffed our tummies with. You can see pictures from our holiday season on mommy's Flickr album here.

It was a great Christmas for us - maybe the best one yet! I hope that bodes well for the new year coming. If things go as well as the holidays did, then 2016 should be an awesome year.

Today, we rest it off. Four days of celebrating is fun, but it's also tiring (especially when you stay up later than usual). Thankfully, both parronts have this week off work, so there should be plenty of time to relax, unwind, recover, and have fun as a flock. And best of all, daddy got a breadmaker. Yum! We're looking forward to some tasty creations there!

I hope all of you wonderful friends had a blessed, joyful, and wonderful Christmas! Thanks for being wonderful pals, and for joining us in the continuing adventure of the niblets from our lives.

Merry Christmas to all!

Luv,

Zack

Dear Santa:

12/17/2015

Dear Santa:

Hi Santa, it’s me, Chloe! I hope you, Mrs. Clause, and all the elves and reindeer are doing well at the North Pole. I know it’s a busy time of year for you and will strive to keep this letter concise.

Zack and I have been good birds this year. We’ve hardly fought at all, and it’s been a good year for our flock. We’re grateful for the blessings of 2015, and pray they continue into the new year.

This year, Zack and I would like chew toys. Those are the best, and we enjoy good-spirited competitions on who can “love” their toy most effectively. Zack likes kabobs, and I enjoy the wood toys. We also enjoy the popcorn, peanuts, and Lafabers seed treats that you kindly bestow on us each year, and pray to find our stockings filled with our regular goodies come Christmas morning.

This year, mommy would like a Kindle. She’s been reading ebooks on apps through her phone and tablet which is fine, but it drains the battery and she finally realized that an ereader is the way to go, given how much she loves to read. She’d like a pretty pink case to go with it. Mommy also asked if you could step upstairs and put your magic touch on our printer. We’ve had that thing for a year, and it has yet to spit out a page when mommy hits “print.” She calls it a piece of poop (ok, the actual word has asterisks) and says to tell people not to ever buy an HP Envy. She says they’re cheap because they don’t work – they make excuses instead of doing what they’re supposed to instead of printing.

Daddy would like clothes. You know daddy: he dresses nice and always welcomes new threads. Pants and shirts are always welcome, as well as a new pair of shoes. He’d also like for Star Wars Episode 7 movie to be awesome, and for mommy to stop screaming at the printer. So putting your magic on it would help him as well.

That’s all for our flock this year. We’re easy to please.

Take care and thanks again for your love and generosity every Christmas. We wish you a blessed Christmas and the happiest of new years.

Luv,

Chloe

Flat Irons and Facebook

12/12/2015

The parronts have found new interests to keep them both engaged. Mommy's is a flat iron. She was introduced to it nearly 2 weeks ago when a guy at the mall stopped her and asked if he could perform a "demonstration." She said ok, let him show her how to fancy up her hair by twirling it around the iron, and said she'd have to "think about spending $100 on myself when I'm shopping for others." Then she walked out the back door to the mall, drove up the road to Target, and bought one for $19.95. She said it would be nice to do a bit more with her hair over the holidays, and has been practicing with it every other day or so. She's figuring out how to get it both straight and curly. It falls out by the end of the day, but she seems happy with the results. At least it looks better for a while, she says.

Daddy's new discovery is Facebook. He finally broke down after years of swearing he wouldn't go there and - went there. He found several cousins and old friends, and more each day.. So he's online a lot checking out that new world and trying to figure it out. But no worries, because he's still checking in at Twitter, too.

As for Chloe and me, we're doing well. It's been a good, relaxing day here at the nest. The parronts have finished their Christmas shopping and Star Wars isn't until next weekend, so they have this weekend to be blessedly bored. And boy, are they enjoying it. So are we. It's great to hang out with our humans!

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

Luv,

Zack

The Demise of Snowy

12/7/2015

It is with a heavy heart that I inform you that Snowy “Snowmeiser” has passed away. He did his last “Freezemeiser” jig late last week. Daddy attempted surgery, but it was unsuccessful. Snowy has been a part of our Christmas celebrations for many years, with his cheerful song, glowing cheeks, and swinging snowflake and hat dance. Mommy thought he might have succumbed to systemic failure when only 1 cheek lit up and he failed to dance upon his retrieval on Black Friday. Another year in storage was more than he could take. Henseforth, our song must come from reruns of “The Year Without a Santa Clause.” Or YouTube. That’s always a handy cheat.

Daddy's sad, because we can’t find a replacement. Zack, meanwhile, sends Snowy off with a head fluff and a good riddance. I believe their relationship was plagued with strife from the start. Snowy could get sassy and you know Zack – he ain’t got time for that! Snowy did challenge us as tropical birds. Never want a day above 30 degrees? Get in the freezer, bud. This is South Carolina. That’s called “Artic Air” in January and February.

But it’s a worry no longer, because Snowy is gone. Rest in pieces. Oops, I mean peace! Awkward --

The good news is that the stockings are hung, the presents are bought and wrapped (or made, if they’re mommy crafting projects), and the Christmas trees are healthy and hail. Then again, they’re artificial. If a fake tree dies, then the parronts really do suck.

And so, we bid Snowy farewell. He is survived by various screws and bolts that we're not sure what to do with. We had a video of Zack lunging at Snowy from last year, but it seems that YouTube ate it. We can't find it. Snowy got no respect.

That’s all today. Here’s hoping your holiday preparations and festivities are going well. Take care, and have a great week.

Luv,

Chloe

Busy Humans

12/5/2015

The humans have been busy this week. They finished up Christmas shopping and wrapping, and mommy wrapped up a writing project that she published last night. It's a scifi short story titled The Experiment, if you're interested. It was a small side project for her. She hopes to finish her Christmas crafting today, and then they'll be free to enjoy the holidays and whatever comes up.

The parronts like to get the shopping and whatnot done early in case their workload takes off, which is possible in December. It's not looking likely for mommy - in fact, this is the first December since she started working full time after college that she won't have some kind of deadline or license renewals to keep her desk (and computer) piled up in December. She says it's nice, but habits die hard, so she did the shopping early anyway. Ditto with daddy. It's not as bad as previous years, but you never know. So they're prepared. If work takes off, they're ready. If not, they can relax and enjoy the season. Here's hoping for relaxing!

It also turned cold here. For folks looking for warm air - sorry, our weather turned last week. It's definitely December now! Chilly, and it rained Wednesday. And football season is over for us, since the Gamecocks had an epic fail of a season this year. They happen. At least we can watch championships, play-offs,and bowl games stress free - if we decide to watch them at all. The big thing we're waiting on is to see who the University of South Carolina hires for their next head coach. Word is supposed to be coming soon.

No, we aren't Clemson people. We know they're #1, but don't go there. In South Carolina, you're for the University of South Carolina or Clemson, and the parronts graduated from USC. Their blood runneth garnet.

So that's what's happening in our corner of the world. I hope you're all doing well. Take care, and have a wonderful weekend!

Luv,

Chloe

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