Happy Holidays Everyone!!

[birdyland]

I don't know how many of you remember me, but I was on this board heavily about a year ago (before the HD crash!). Well, I'm back, hopefully it will be pretty regularly. :-} It's been a hectic year, but hopefully things are starting to calm down some....

I just wanted to say HI! to all and HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Dana, Tiki (scarlet Macaw) & Niki (M2)!

[cgrite]

Welcome back Dana!!!.......;)

[BirdzRmylife]

Yep, I remeber ya as well Dana.... welcome back! :D

[Candice]

I have not been here long enough to remember you, but Welcome Back! :D

[Graehstone]

Yeah!!! Dana is back. Another fellow San Diegan Yippee!! Glad you found your way back to the flock.

Missed you

[Tiki]

Hi Dana and welcome back! I have been around since pre-crash too (sept 2003), though not nearly as active as I am now. Hey another Tiki bird parent! That must be the most popular name for birds amongst our group. 8)

[birdyland]

Thanks all!

Glad to be back!

Gotta love San Diego Graehstone, but my friends and family are leaving by the flocks.... I hope to stay, but I hope the housing market keeps settling down too. I wouldn't be able to live in an appartment with my two big birdies, and yes, we would move before we got rid of them!

Tiki - I have wanted a Scarlet Macaw since the first time I went to the Tiki Room when I was 3 years old.... it was only fitting to name her that!

[Stacey32]

Hello! I am new since you were last here..but welcome!

so, I wonder why Tiki is so common a name? Does it have a special meaning?

[birdyland]

My Tiki is named after the Tiki room at Disneyland. If you haven't been there - it is the first animitronic adventure dreamed up by Walt Disney... it is a "Tiki Hut" filled with animitronic, singing birds that put on a show for its visitors. It's wonderful.



Tiki - definitions by dictionary.com
1.Mythology. A male figure in Polynesian myth, sometimes identified as the first man.
2.A wooden or stone image of a Polynesian god.
3. A Maori figurine representing an ancestor, often intricately carved from greenstone and worn about the neck as a talisman.



I have also heard a good luck charm referred to as a Tiki - hence the "talisman" definition above... There are also Tiki torches, and tiki gods, and tiki huts.... all refering to polonesian style items.

[Kevin]

I hear ya Dana... housing market is insane... Been trying to by a condo or house for last year and its just insane! I was looking out in the phoenix area and man its a hell of alot cheaper! and you get more bang for your buck...