The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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speaking of breeding, our diamond dove, "Chicken", whom we've had for about six years (we saw him hatch) is doing his best. all his life he's been either a parakeet (in a cage with one trying to mimic it) or a finch (same situation). for a few weeks i think he was also a canary.

anyway, about a month before we went on vacation he started crying and cooing all night. we felt really sad for him, so we got him a little girlfriend diamond dove ("Chickenette"). she would have nothing to do with him - even sadder! he did his very best bou-coups, nodding, flaring out his tailfeathers, trying to bring her bits of alfalfa, she'd have nothing to do with him. (too young). he'd do his best strut and she'd just walk away. he'd just sort of wilt and look sad. (we felt REALLY bad for him then!)

well, last week she noticed he was alive. in a big way. yesterday she laid an egg. unfortunately, because chicken's tailfeathers are in moult he couldn't get up to where she'd nested. the society finches were harassing her, so i took a gamble and moved the nest and both doves to another cage. she laid another egg last night. unfortunately, the move was traumatic and she's ignoring both. so i've put all back in "the big cage", only down on the floor, took the merry pranksters out and put them in the smaller cage, and fingers are crossed. i've been told to not give up hope until five days have passed. if she's still not brooding them after five days, i'm to take them out and they'll probably start again.

so happy for chicken, he was so lonely and confused for so long, and now he sits happily by his new little friend. they are tiny little doves, very sweet.

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spike doesn't give a damn, just wants me to take her out so she can have her bath in a pickle-jar lid on a towel on my bed every evening. seems a bit jealous she's not the center of attention at present - keeps flying up into my hair whenever i go over to check on the doves. (little twit)

PS went to the movies last night ($1 popcorn night is tuesdays) and saw "angels and demons". they REALLY changed it a lot from the book. book was much better. but the movie was ok. kind of disappointing, but if i hadn't of read the book i might not have had anything to compare it to and it probably would have been fine.

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one thing about the book, merle, was that i kept finding anachronisms in it which kind of threw me out of the "suspended disbelief" mode. the one i remember off the top of my head is the "hero" saying how the church had borrowed the concept of eucharist (can never spell that, the wafer and wine gig) from the aztecs. it was in place long before europeans had contact with the aztecs... that sort of thing. several of them. but the book was definitely a good saturday-afternoon-curled-up read, not complicated, fast read.

on another tack, i almost had a coronary walking by another movie theatre this week. the tickets are up to $11.50. no way i'll pay 11.50 - especially when some of the movies are 3D and require you to buy the glasses for ANOTHER $3.50. as in, they HAVE to be kidding! no, thanks, i'll just keep going to my neighborhood cinema, where we get in for $8. (which is steep enough! movies had better start getting longer than an hour and a half if they want to keep getting my money!) as it is, $4.50 for a small soda and $8 for popcorn? well, thankfully walmart is just down the road and their movie-sized candy is $1 a box, so we do the $1 popcorn night, bring our own candy, and split a soda.

and they wonder why attendance is down?

UH - ooooooooo.....

a starving country run by a paranoid, that has nukes,....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090528/ap_ ... as_nuclear

i bet japan is just having a conniption fit, not to mention the SOUTH koreans.

i wonder when china will step in?

Lauri - San Diego to Dublin in late August on Northwest Airlines is running at under $490 round-trip, all taxes included. If you're still planning to go, you might check their website....

uh oh, got home and someone has eaten one of the untended diamond dove eggs. ( i strongly suspect is of the zebra finch persuasion, as doves are not known for doing that. - not spike, the others, he has his own condo.) the parents seem unconcerned. the other is now safely swaddled in a wash cloth in a box on top of my printer, with a goose-neck lamp beaming down on it. digital oven thermometer is safely ensconced in said wash cloth, reading 98F pretty steadily. everything online says it needs to stay within a degree of 99.5F, but i don't know the thermometer is all that accurate and if i diddle with the setup it tries to go over 101F or under 97F, so i'm settling for a nice, constant 98F and am hoping it works.

looked all the hell over for the heating pad, which would have worked much better. worked great for rearing spikey. can't find it. went through all the closets, looked behind the couch, cannot figure out where it's gotten to!

never tried to raise one from an egg before. not even sure if it's still alive in there. should know in a few days, will hold it up to a light and see if anything looks different. fingers are crossed.

s/he is going to be much bigger than spikey is now, if s/he hatches, in about two weeks' time. and, thank goodness, they eat on their own - will have to provide formula, but it'll take it out of the spoon on its own (no syringes and trying to get it down a moving-target throat!). and s/he'd be eating seeds on his/her own in three weeks. spikey took a lot more work.

of course, the egg may not even be viable. but it's sitting there toasting under the 98F lightbulb, just in case....

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we have dog now ...