I've started making my own bird mash. Nohea loves it, on the condition that it be warmed up first. But he isn't the reason I'm so happy.

I've been trying to tempt Cloud, our feral cockatiel, with something, anything, other than seed for about six months now. No luck. He'd rather go without until he got seed.

I'd baked some bird bread, and dropped that in his bowl the night before. The next morning I noticed it had been eaten. And there was much rejoicing, which did...

Nohea is being a right little devil today. Both kids are off school, which makes the living room a bit noisy, so I took some work I needed to proofread and hid in my daughter's room (that way I could let her currently-in-quarentine budgie out for a few hours).

When I came back into the living room, two hours later, my daughter announced that she'd gone to kiss Nohea and he'd lunged at her.

This didn't sound like Nohea, who usually loves kisses. So I tried. He kissed...

Saturday was just beautiful, so Nohea and I got the harness out and went for a long walk. We nipped into the Marriott gold course trails and strolled through the course until we got to the Marriott's beach access. Then we walked along the shore up to the mall and back.

That doesn't sound like much, but amounted to a two hour stroll. Nohea saw no reason why I should stop moving, so we were on the go the whole time.

Idiot that I am, I forgot to bring my camera, but that...