Experiences at the kitchen table at 5:00 or so in the morning...
Party!!!
Posted 09-15-2009 at 02:05 PM by NotEnoughTime
Last Friday night we had a party.
We don't really have loud music, drinking and dancing parties at my place. Our parties are usually somewhat sedate affairs where our friends and their families come over and we watch movies with the kids and all the adults sit around the table, drink wine and beer... And eat...
Gari loves a party!!
There is so much company (we usually have about 12-16 friends and family over) and food that she can hardly decide what to do. Quite often for the first hour or so she sits on my shoulder just watching in wonderment as the small plates of food come out of the kitchen and all of us take small samples...
Everyone says "hi" to her and the occassional "bird person" offers her a finger. She either attempts to take a chunk out of the finger or steps up - depending on her feeling for the person.
I believe she bases her decision on the likelyhood that the person will give her food.
One of our friends is (or perhaps was) looking for a hand-raised cockatiel. She had a cockatiel for 20 years and misses a bird. I, of course, totally understand the feeling. Once you become a bird person there is no going back...
Now, though, she asked me who Gari's breeder was and if she could get on a wait list for a Green Cheek. I told her the breeder was pretty picky about to whom she sold her birds - but that I would inquire about the green cheek status. It is about an hour-and-a-half drive to get to the breeder's place - and she (the breeder) would have to meet and talk with a potential buyer first... So at least two trips to the breeder before she would sell the bird. Quite a process... It didn't faze my friend - which is a good sign... We'll see...
Back to the party... Gari is up with as as we are eating. People are told to avoid giving her this and that food - but that others on the table are OK for her to eat. Gari makes the rounds. She visits each person and asks to sample their food. Some she likes and takes back to her bowl (on the table) and some she just ignores... Laughter at bird behaviour around the table.
At 11:00pm the Okonomiyaki pan comes out. Okonomiyaki is a japanese pancake (huge) that has meat, seafood and vegetable cooked into it. This huge pan sits in the centre of the table. Gari is relegated to another room while we cook the pancake... There are a few cooking fumes that are not particularly good for her from the frying meat and seafood (not to mention the large, hot, pan).
When the pancake is done Gari comes out of the room and we promptly offer her a cooled peice of the pancake... She takes it and flys to her perch to "chow down."
By 1:00am everyone is full. The conversation is starting to slow. The kids are all sleeping on the futon by the television screen and even Gari is starting to close her eyes on her perch. Everyone helps to load the dishwasher and we all say our goodbyes...
Gari goes, quite happily, to her sleep cage.
Both Gari and I are up at 7:00am the next morning. We don't wake anyone else up... But we are early birds...
I don't know about catching worms... But we were both in bed by 8:00pm Saturday evening.
We don't really have loud music, drinking and dancing parties at my place. Our parties are usually somewhat sedate affairs where our friends and their families come over and we watch movies with the kids and all the adults sit around the table, drink wine and beer... And eat...
Gari loves a party!!
There is so much company (we usually have about 12-16 friends and family over) and food that she can hardly decide what to do. Quite often for the first hour or so she sits on my shoulder just watching in wonderment as the small plates of food come out of the kitchen and all of us take small samples...
Everyone says "hi" to her and the occassional "bird person" offers her a finger. She either attempts to take a chunk out of the finger or steps up - depending on her feeling for the person.
I believe she bases her decision on the likelyhood that the person will give her food.
One of our friends is (or perhaps was) looking for a hand-raised cockatiel. She had a cockatiel for 20 years and misses a bird. I, of course, totally understand the feeling. Once you become a bird person there is no going back...
Now, though, she asked me who Gari's breeder was and if she could get on a wait list for a Green Cheek. I told her the breeder was pretty picky about to whom she sold her birds - but that I would inquire about the green cheek status. It is about an hour-and-a-half drive to get to the breeder's place - and she (the breeder) would have to meet and talk with a potential buyer first... So at least two trips to the breeder before she would sell the bird. Quite a process... It didn't faze my friend - which is a good sign... We'll see...
Back to the party... Gari is up with as as we are eating. People are told to avoid giving her this and that food - but that others on the table are OK for her to eat. Gari makes the rounds. She visits each person and asks to sample their food. Some she likes and takes back to her bowl (on the table) and some she just ignores... Laughter at bird behaviour around the table.
At 11:00pm the Okonomiyaki pan comes out. Okonomiyaki is a japanese pancake (huge) that has meat, seafood and vegetable cooked into it. This huge pan sits in the centre of the table. Gari is relegated to another room while we cook the pancake... There are a few cooking fumes that are not particularly good for her from the frying meat and seafood (not to mention the large, hot, pan).
When the pancake is done Gari comes out of the room and we promptly offer her a cooled peice of the pancake... She takes it and flys to her perch to "chow down."
By 1:00am everyone is full. The conversation is starting to slow. The kids are all sleeping on the futon by the television screen and even Gari is starting to close her eyes on her perch. Everyone helps to load the dishwasher and we all say our goodbyes...
Gari goes, quite happily, to her sleep cage.
Both Gari and I are up at 7:00am the next morning. We don't wake anyone else up... But we are early birds...
I don't know about catching worms... But we were both in bed by 8:00pm Saturday evening.
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