Category: Daddy

The Mystery of the Missing Cozy Corner

10/20/2013

We have a real, live mystery here at our nest these days. Late last week as mommy was completing her fall housecleaning, she decided to wash our cozy corners with her late week laundry. Those are cloth strips that tie in a corner of the cage, and you can snuggle it. Zack and I love ours (Ollie rejected his and mommy took it out of his cage). They're nice and warm, and I enjoy sleeping against mine.

Well, she put both of ours in the wash, but only mine came out. We can't find Zack's cozy corner anywhere. It's a real mystery, because she put them in the load last, so she knows they went in. But his never came out. The parronts have looked all over the house - they even dug through the trash! But it's not anywhere. We have no idea what happened to it. And as you can see in the picture here, I even caught a ride to look around for it, and came up with bumkis. Nothing. Poor Zack.

Zack has another cozy corner, which is fortunate because mommy went to the store the next day and they had absolutely NONE in stock. She it's a cozy corner conspiracy. Daddy thinks she's silly and it will turn up - but, she argues (with a good point), if we've looked all over and it's gone from here to absolutely nowhere, then where is it? There's no place on the realm of the physical world where it exists in this house, at least. She thinks a demon stole it, just to piss her off, because everybody knows our parronts are the most organized people in the world and it's extremely rare (and frustrating) for anything to get lost.

I don't know. Daddy thinks it will turn up eventually, and Zack is holding out the same hope. He doesn't bear a grudge - he's too goodhearted for that - but he still won't snuggle up with the new corner, for fear that the old one will turn up and accuse him of cheating. I guess. But it's been 4 days now and still no sign of it ANYWHERE.

It really is a mystery. I have no idea what could have happened to it. Of all the things I've seen from the aviary to here, this is truly the strangest.

That's all for today. Enjoy the rest of your weekend and I hope you have a good start to the new week.

Luv,

Chloe

Fall Housecleaning

10/16/2013

Mommy and daddy have been working hard to clean the house the past
couple of weeks! Daddy went out in the yard to clean up, rake, trim branches, digging up weeds, and do some watersealing on the back steps outside. Mommy’s been scrubbing the kitchen and bathrooms, cleaning the floors, dusting and polishing furniture, tidying up the house, and giving our cages a good clean up. The house looks (and smells) really good! They call it their “fall housecleaning,” and I like it!

I’ve heard humans say that they’re either the cooking or the cleaning type. Our parronts are definitely the cleaning type. The house is always neat as a pin. They’re good about keeping it clean and organized. Even Ollie and I are pretty clean, when it comes to birds. We try to keep our “messes” localized to one spot. Chloe, on the other hand, doesn’t mind some mess. She’ll throw some seed on the floor of her cage on purpose just to make a little mess. It drives mommy crazy, especially when Chloe gives a good shovel right after mommy finishes a cleaning and takes the trash out. It’s amusing to watch mommy whale “no, sweetheart!!” as the seed goes flying. Cage cleaning night is also comedy night in our home.

Do your parronts like to cook or clean? Or are they better balanced (some would call it “sane”) and do they do a bit of both? Watch them to find out. It can be interesting – and quite amusing!

That’s all today. Take care and have a great rest of the week.

Luv,

Zack

Daddy's New Adventure!

10/13/2013

Daddy is embarking on a new adventure: YouTube! He's been working with his moviemaker software and has created several cute, funny videos of us birdies. You can check him out on the Rick Moorer channel.

Mommy thinks it's great. She says there's too much online about bad things like animal cruelty and abuse - I think the constant posts (especially on Facebook) about animals about to be euthanized at various shelters really bothers her. Bad stories spread and good stories stall. She thinks it's outstanding that there are so many people and parrots on Twitter that are committed to the best care for birdie buddies.

And it's true. There are a lot of people out there that take great care of their pets, and they need more notice online. Social media is good for connecting us to share stories and advice, but it's also great to show the world the right way to care for your pets. Let's show the world what's right! We need more cute videos, websites and blogs like this, and all the friends on social media we can get to show it's not all cruelty and darkness. There's a lot of good happening too, and countless places where birds and humans live in harmony.

So if you want a smile, check out daddy's channel! Bookmark this website, or follow us on twitter - we're @wazzupzack and @ChloeConure. There's plenty of fun, shenanagins, and silliness to go around!

That's all today. Enjoy the rest of your weekend and I hope you have a great week.

Luv,

Chloe

Decreasing My Anxiety

9/22/2013

I've been so worried about my big brother this past week! Zack got an upper respiratory infection last weekend, and today is his 7th day on his antibiotic. He's doing better, but he just got his voice back yesterday. So I had to keep an eye on him and call the parronts if we needed anything. It's good to see him doing better. I know we've all been worried about him, and it was such a relief when mommy and daddy came home from supper last night and he belted out his first screams in a week! We all felt better hearing that. And Zack's energy has been increasing each day. He's been a lot more active today, and more like himself. He still has 3 more days of medication left, but overall it seems to be working.

Mommy was worried about me too, because I was so nervous about Zack. I was pretty high strung, and she was afraid I'd make myself sick worrying. She said that happened with her parakeets once before - one of the males got sick, and the female worried so much that she got sick too. But they care for us well, and I'm doing okay now. I've been more relaxed this weekend, now that I see Zack improving. I believe mommy, daddy, and Ollie are feeling better and their anxiety is decreasing too. All in all, the whole flock is doing better.

Thanks once again to all of our friends for your care and concern! Mommy and daddy cleaned up the house and did the shopping yesterday, so we've been taking it easy today. It's just what we all needed. Tonight, mommy said we'll pop some popcorn and watch Breaking Bad. It's gonna be fun!

That's all today. I hope you've all had a great weekend and that you have a good week ahead.

Luv,

Chloe

Slow Weekend

9/15/2013

It's been a slow weekend for us. Daddy is sick with a cold, and mommy has been tired from a hectic week at work. They didn't even go out yesterday, except for mommy to pick up lunch. And there was an incident with that - a man was having a tirade at the place over not liking where his cheeseburger was. He was leaning over the counter, pointing and screaming that it should be in his hands and not on the counter being made. She said that's it, people are crazy. I'm going home. People always go looney when there's a college game downtown and it seems yesterday was no exception. I mean, geeze people. Football is a game. To allow it to dictate your mood like that is silly, even to a bird! I can only imagine how stupid that must have looked. And really, it was dumb to go to the most crowded burger place on the way to the stadium - at noon! - if your fuse is that short anyway.

I guess humans really like their recreation, but sometimes they get a bit too involved in it. Then again, mommy says that Zack can attack a chew toy with a lasar focus that rivals the biggest college football fan on game day. He can. He can tear up a yucca toy in hours. He calls it focus and precision. I don't know what I call it. Scary? I don't know. It's fun to watch him gnawing and grunting with that single minded determination sometimes too. That's our Zack - small bird, huge personality. There's not another bird like him in the world. And we do love our brother.

I guess I'm a more somber, balanced bird. I like to savor my toys and enjoy food and fun with an even keel. I'm more mellow and take life as it comes, which is also good. There's no need to get stressed or upset over things. Unless there's a predator around, or my tail is stepped on. Then it's on at a whole new level!

That's all today. I hope all of you are having a good weekend. Take care and have a great week.

Luv,

Chloe

Things Coming Together

9/12/2013

Check out the cover art for mommy's sci-fi novel that's coming out in November! The title is Splinter, and it's a sci-fi novel being published through Whiskey Creek Press. She's been busy with pre-production the past month, and it's great to see things coming together. You can visit her website at SherritheWriter for more information on this and her other titles.

Mommy really does enjoy her writing, and we're proud to have helped her with this project. Splinter is the first book she wrote after adopting me and Chloe, so we're especially proud of this one because this is the first book we've been through with her from concept to publication. It's been a lot of hard work, but exciting and fun too. She does enjoy writing and promoting her work.

We've also helped daddy with his website design this week. He works on a couple of websites on the side and he really enjoys that too. We have so much fun helping our humans with their projects! And it's good to see them doing things that make them happy, too.

I hope you're all doing well and helping your human parronts with great endeavors and fun tasks. Have a Happy Friday tomorrow and a great weekend.

Luv,

Ollie

We're So Clean!

8/22/2013

Mommy cleaned the house because we’re going to have visitors this weekend! Both of their parents are coming to visit for the birthdays. Daddy’s birthday was yesterday, and mommy’s birthday is Monday. That means dusting, vacuuming, mopping, and cleaning kitchens and bathrooms have been done. They did some cleaning for the friends that came last weekend, but this week they've really scrubbed it down. The house is so clean it sparkles, and it smells fresh. That's the power of Pine-Sol, baby bird!

I understand that mommy and daddy want the house to look it’s best, and they’re good about keeping it clean. In fact, I believe their cleanliness is legendary on Twitter, as it extends to us with the frequent cage cleanings and baths we get! But it’s not all about being compulsive. The truth is, mommy’s allergic to mold, and keeping the house clean keeps her allergies under control. It’s that or get allergy shots, and she said she had them in the past and they didn’t work because they’re nothing more than a scheme to line the doctor’s pockets (what?), so she and daddy keep the house clean.

But I still don’t see why that means we need baths so frequently. Our feathers aren’t moldy! We do a great job keeping them preened and in great shape. Plus, Zack and I take regular dips in our water dishes. What’s up with that shower perch thing? Really?

I guess it gives her some security in knowing that the cleaning has been done. Still, I don’t think it matters. We just like visiting with people, and frankly I think they don’t mind how the house looks as much as mommy and daddy think. I know the boys and I are looking forward to some good socialization time. Zack especially loves visits. He’s a ham!

That’s all today. I hope you have a great weekend.

Luv,

Chloe

Happy Birthday, Daddy!

8/20/2013

Tomorrow is daddy’s birthday! We love you, daddy! We hope you have a great, happy day!

We love birthdays, holidays, and all kinds of celebrations. Birds are
happy creatures so naturally, we enjoy celebrating with our human parronts and companions. Especially if there’s food involved. Humans love to eat really good stuff and with the proper persuasion, you can get them to share those treats with you. Proper persuasion includes snatching, grabbing, stealing, and running like hell before they can take it away or say “no, you’re not supposed to have that!” Really, you probably aren’t either. Cholesterol and all, you know. Now hand it over like a good human.

Hee hee! It’s such a fun game!

Other fun games include rip the wrapping paper, gift bag hide and rustle, tissue paper tearing, cabinet perching, lunge at the visitors, finger buffet, shirt chewing, remove the glasses, and our favorite, “guess where I pooped?” Extra points are awarded if it takes the humans more than 12 hours to locate it and requires hard scrubbing to clean.

Oh yes, birthdays are great fun. And mommy’s birthday is Monday, so the fun will continue for a few days.

I hope you’re all having a great week. Take care.

Luv,

Zack

A Refreshing Reprieve

8/16/2013

Zack, Chloe and I had some good snoozing weather today! It was in the mid to high 60’s and raining all day. That’s about 30 degrees below our normal temperatures this time of year (and 40 degrees below our typical heat index!). What a pleasant day! Most people would say “oh how gloomy,” but we enjoyed the break from the scorching heat of summer. It was a refreshing reprieve. Plus, some time for “power naps” did all of us birds some good. We have some visits and celebrations
ahead.

Daddy’s birthday is next Wednesday. Last night, mommy and Chloe disappeared upstairs for
a little while to order his present from us. So much for Chloe being mad at mommy about that bath on Wednesday. Those giggling girls never really get mad at each other. They go together like mashed potatoes and gravy – or macaroni and cheese, if that’s more in line with your idea of a culinary delight. But the gift is ordered, confirmation received, and daddy should receive it Wednesday. I can’t say what it is because he reads this blog. I’m no dummy. I’m a smart bird. We’re all smart birds.

And now it’s the weekend! Yay! Mommy and daddy’s friends are coming to visit tomorrow – a couple from the lower part of the state. They’re happy about that. They haven’t seen Joe and Elizabeth in a couple of months, so I know they’re all happy to have a chance to hang out again. We like them, too. They’re good folks, and they’re always nice to us.

I think the visit will be good for mommy and daddy too. It’s daddy’s busiest time of the year and he’s been stressed out this week. And mommy’s been busy with book edits for her sci-fi novel coming out in November, so it will do her some good to get out from behind the computer, between that and work. She finished the edits and turned them in Wednesday, but I think her brain’s still a little scrambled. I guess it takes her brain a while to get from the moons of Jupiter in the year 3001 back to Earth in 2013. She’s so funny in “writer mode.”

I hope you’re all doing well and had a Happy Friday today. Have a great weekend.

Luv,

Ollie

What's Stress?

8/9/2013

So the humans have been going on about stress a lot lately. Daddy's work is cranking up for back-to-school time, and mommy has a meeting Monday to clear up some disciplinary issues. They've been having aches and pains and drinking "silly juice" (alcohol) after work. They say it's stress.

We worry about our humans when they get like this, but we don't really know what stress is. We just try to comfort them and be good to them, as they are to us. Every day, they tell us that they're happy to be home with us. And every day, we're happy to see them come home!

Well, there is one thing that I know a lot of us are looking forward to: Breaking Bad is back this Sunday at 9 p.m. on AMC! Whoot! In fact, AMC has a marathon on right now so -- I'm a bit distracted.

I hope all of you are doing well and taking care. Happy Friday to you and have a great weekend.

Luv,

Zack

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