Skirt Dance

Joy dances while gathering chunks of Yucca she just shredded.

Jingle Joy

Joy discovers a jingle bell ball is one of her favorite toys! :)

Needs Practice...

Blue Bathing Beauty

Joy is overcoming her fear of water today! And we discovered that bath time is a good distraction from what would we be yelling time. ;p Look at this stunning plumage!

 Wow! She'll be even brighter after preening!

How can you not love this hairdo? 

 I can't wait for her missing tail feathers to grow in! I wonder how she lost them.

 She's way too big for this dish! >_< Hee hee!

 Rub-a-dub-dub!

My little jewel! <3

 Look at her sweet little green heart shaped back! 

This is one happy birdie!

More Joy Pics!

So today Joy and I have had several breakthroughs. Today was the first time she flew down the hallway to find me, for starters. First time she stepped up onto my hand, first time she hissed at Dorian, first time she played on the java tree (sennies were in their cage), first time she (finally!) played with shreddables (yucca and ocotillo, thank you Danita!) and the first time she rode on my head or shoulder!  It was also the first time we tried to take a shower, and she did not like that at all! Per my friend James advice, I went in with her on her training dowel, and on my arm. She flew out every time! I didnt want to shut the door so she would fly into it. She barely got wet, but we'll keep working on it. Hopefully she will give it a shot eventually.

I couldn't resist getting a shot of her stunning tail feathers, either. I kept trying to get a wing shot, but with no luck. Her wings are a brilliant sapphire blue!

Tadaa!

Me and Joy.

Pets!

Make a Joyful Noise!

My beautiful clucky chicken....

 

...and photographic proof that she needs her nails trimmed! :D

RustOleum

Aqua or Green Apple?

I'm repainting a small play -top cali sleeper cage for a playstand...and I can't decide which color. Hmm... I am leaning more towards Green Apple though... Decisions, decisions....

One step forward...

Two steps back. Yesterday was such a great day with Joy. Today she is all riled up and loud. She wants to PLAY, you can tell. She's super hyper and wants to fly and jump around, but wont come out of her cage. to make up for it she's like a little kid yelling on a jungle gym-- doing somersaults in her cage. Noel is in a horrible mood because she is loud, but it's not just her. Mokey has been having screaming fits lately, and combines it's driving Noel bonkers. When Noel is stressed out, I feel like there was a death in the family, I get stressed out times a billion. I feel horrible.

I got an inquiry about Joy form a woman who is not nuts, and I don't want to think about it, but I'm going to have to tell her all about her, and set them up. She even has another Pi already. It's a good day, but its a bad day. Today is a sad day for me.

Joy looooves scritches!

Royalty!

LOOK at this cage! OMG! I want to live in it! Isn't it stunning? It comes in 3 colors! It's $369 with free shipping...I can't afford to get this for Joy now, since I want to take her to the vet, buy her a new cage, and chip in for half on the X-Box for Noel with my next paycheck. I could buy it in February, but she needs a new cage now. hmmm...what to do, what to do...

SCRITCHES!!

Today Joy let me give her scritches on her head!! Scritches means to sort of itch her neck for her, against the grain of her feathers. She loves it! She kept lowering her head so I would keep doing it, hee hee hee! I'll get some video after birdie breakfast. She was a little loud this morning before I got up, but it was more like a fussy baby who wants out of the crib than any scared or annoyed screaming. After I gave her scritches she started to do a fluffy skirt dance (a mating display) and make her chicken cluck noises. I redirected her to her food dish and she happily started eating. Then when we were enjoying sun in the living room, Noel got up for work and the dogs started excitedly jumping on the couch (DADS AWAKE! DADS AWAKE, YAAAAY!) and she started her really loud seagull call again. I believe I have properly translated its meaning:

1. In the morning, it translates to "I'm awake! Is anybody else awake? Hey! I could use some company! Hello?"
2. If I leave the room, it is a nervous "WHERE are you going! You forgot about me!"
3. If the dogs wrestle or get too jumpy-on-the-couchy it translates to "WOAH HEY calm down!! You're scaring me! What's all the fuss about?"
4. If there is a loud sound from the street, or a crescendo in the music we are listening to, it translates to "JESUS WHAT WAS THAT! I don't like that!"
5. And when she is hormonal (egg laying) it translates to "HEY BOOOOYS! I'm over heeeere!!"

Or at least that's what I think. :)

Griffons!

INSPIRATION!

Well, I have finally been bitten by the blog bug. Inspired by my sister chronicling her journey through culinary school, I decided to create a blog detailing my experiences with my parrots as I learn to become the best parront I can be. Since this is *booming voice* BLOG NUMBER ONE, I will keep it short and entertain you with quotes I like that echo my feelings about my fids (feathered kids).

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to
heaven.
Emily Dickinson

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite
what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that
keeps a parrot. 

Mark Twain

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while
I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more
distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any
epaulet I could have worn.
Henry David Thoreau  

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of
cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
Joseph Addison 

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy
to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a
very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.
Bernard Meltzer 

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.
Chinese Proverb