Wednesday, January 18, 2006
The Deal!
Two days ago the new cage for my African Grays arrived. It was a deal between husband and I. He wanted a lawn sweeper to pull behind the tractor when he had the mower deck on. I found a double cage on sale for 50 per cent off which made it roughly the same price as the lawn sweeper. It was agreed I could order the cage and we would go to Tractor Supply and buy the sweeper. So the lawn sweeper went to the garage where Jay has been working on putting it together. He finished it today and it is in the shed waiting for the snow to go and the grass to grow.
Monday he helped me put the new cage together and I transferred Spirit and Echo to it. I cleaned up the old cage on Monday night and it stayed in the utility room until today when Jay and I carried to the mud room in the basement area for storing until summer when we can use it outside. The new cage is a double in a platinum color. Echo is in the bottom cage but it is a little higher off the floor so she can watch the proceedings in the room. She had a little problem getting used to her seed dish being up by a perch after years of having it on the floor of the cage. But I held the dish out to her a couple of times so she could see where her seeds were now and then placed the dish in the holder. ( Being blind in one eye she has difficulty adapting to new surroundings but she has it down now). Spirit is in the other cage on top and asking for apple and crackers like nothing has changed.
Today I washed cage covers and did a little sewing on the old large cage cover . It was a simple job to make it fit the new cage. On a roll I did an additional two loads of laundry including the bedding. Everything is all washed, dried, folded and put away.
After that thanks to the Schwan’s man I played ‘Nanook of the Norge’ and we had Pork Egg Rolls, Shrimp Scampi, a lettuce and tomato salad, and a small dish of Triple Berry fruit for supper. We opened a jar of plum sauce Jay had canned last year to dip our egg rolls in. Amazing how quickly you can put a meal together when cooking from frozen.
I took a break from knitting my next project to check in with you but now it is calling me to get started again so I’ll say good night and see you later!
Winter’s Back!
So look outside at the wind!
Old man Winter has just blown in again!
You go to bed with brown on the ground.
When daylight comes it’s white all around.
Yep you guessed it Michigan’s my home.
In 70 years I have never roamed.
Or lived in a warm place in the winter.
Even through my blood gets thinner.
I’ll hobble through snow and slip on the ice.
Don’t know any better so don’t think twice.
About changing the place this old gal stays.
Lived this long and won’t change my ways!