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

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holy mackrel, batman!

I just sent you an Email, Chuck, BEFORE you posted!


all agoggle,

Merle

cute, and true, on snoopy.

spent most of the day getting my balcony garden into shape, the tomatos had some problem that killed half of the plants, so today i replaced the soil and got a few new plants, some additional herbs... then got to watch the episodes i'd missed of the first dr. who series courtesy of the local public library.

anyway, came back in to wash up and spike was calling frantically from down the hall. went in to the bath to wash my hands before going over to his cage and i could hear him throwing himself at the side of the cage, making horrible cries. went and got him out, and got his little pickle jar lid, thinking he'd like to take a bath. set both on the bed and he frantically flew up and got into my hair. i got him untangled and tried to put him down again and he flew back up, crying pretty pitifully.

so i held him in my hands and spoke to him, with him all fluffed up and making truly pitiful little noises. i sat down next to his cage and tried to talk to him, petting his head and keeping him in my hands since he seemed to want to be there. after a few minutes he calmed down, but had his little beak open and was panting and still making the odd cry for several minutes. i was getting worried there, because he's never behaved like this before.

next thing i know there's a tiny egg in the palm of my hand and he flew up to my shoulder and leaned against my neck for a good five minutes. poor little guy. did NOT want to go back into his cage, wanted to lean on me. i tried to put him in the cage, no, flutterflutter back to the hair. tried again, same thing, with pathetic cries. so i just spent 45 minutes sitting on the bed looking out the window with a bird nesting on my shoulder under my hair. he's now wrapped up in his nest/ washcloth and seems to be sleeping, back in his cage. got him to eat a little ground-up cuttlebone, so his calcium level wouldn't get too low.

at least the egg had a proper shell on it, so the vitamins must be working.

i live in the zoological equivalent of a soap opera, ya know?

Lurking. Doing more polyclay work.

Lurking.....and stimming.....as usual...

These are the latest.



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oooh, nice ! !!

very pretty! i like the ones with the stars.

Mesmerising ! They look almost good enough to eat,like Liquorice Allsorts.

Cheers, lemon, Nan and pluto. Licorice allsorts, you say?





Quite inedible, alas, except for the big ones in the first pic.

Out of date now

ohmygoodness, david tennant AND john barryman are going to be at comicon on the sunday, and they're screening new episodes the night before!

now, who do i know who can get me a pass in there? hmmmm (they've been long since sold out of tickets)....

Fascinated with AllSorts and watching twitterfall to see the tweets coming in from the demonstrations/uprising in Iran!

http://twitterfall.com/

Spike has a baby sister/brother as of this past week. Heavecliff is doing well, as far as we can tell. We can definitely hear him/her at feeding time today, so we assume s/he's going to be ok with two zebra finches and two society finches all trying to feed him/her. No other eggs in that nest.

Also, we have two newly hatched diamond dove babies this morning. They are very fuzzy. One is much smaller than the other and will probably have to be removed from the nest or s/he won't get enough to eat and will starve.

They look very much like this and both of them together would fit on a half-dollar coin.

sadly, the littlest dove did not make it. we just went to check on them, and were going to pull him out of the nest and hand feed him as he seemed much smaller than his nest-mate. looks as if his nest-mate got all the food today and he got none. so sad, wish i'd have taken him out of there this morning, he'd still be alive maybe.