Oh, I can not wait for real spring or late spring to get here. (keep in mind my post are slightly later than when I make them live). Got to build up some reads while I'm away on VACATION!!! ROAD TRIP I'll be sure to talk about it After I get back. Safety first right!!!
It was a nice weekend, this weekend I'm blogging about. First signs of flowers peeking their heads up. My mom's new flower bloomed. Crocus if I spelled that right. So this prompted me to move some stuff around in the garden.
I moved some wood. Moved the tarp to the sitting area and to uncover the ground to start planting some lettuce. Still cold and we still had snow after this weekend. But really the lettuce likes that cold air. So yeah it looks messy, but what part of nature is prim and proper? seriously name one natural untouched by human area that isn't wild and messy?
So why should I garden like people.. Earth likes the way I garden. So if one doesn't like it..guess you will have to learn to cope with that lack of control over me. HAHAHAHA lol seriously tho I don't like rules.
So this photo above means a ton to me. The birdcage is now an herb cage. This is where I grow all my parsley and cilantro and some other smaller herbs. I did have a bird living in there once. His name was Dude... Dude the Bird. He was a Quaker Parrot, also known as Monk Parakeet. These birds typically live 15- 20 years longer if you keep them healthy as a pet.
I have gone through two of these birds. Lost each one by some crazy act. my first bird was rocky. Man, that bird use to greet me when i came home from school Just saying my name A.... pril... a.. pril. The A was a high pitch and the pril was just fast and quick. Great stories for this little guy. I lived in an apartment growing up. No cats, no dogs. Just fish and birds. Well, this bird can bite through a safety pin so a lot of people were scared of the little guy. And personally, if you were not me, I'd be scared too. The bird took to me and loved me, but knew not to bite my mom. He would launch at my friends daily but never me. Again, I got stories. Rocky's life ended in a house fire. I was in 9th grade and losing my bird wasn't the greatest of things to cope with. But everything happens for a reason. it hurts more than I can share when you lose a pet that talks. If I think too long about it I'll still break down. Just thinking about how my baby suffered in the smoke of the fire. Birds are so fragile.
In my adult life, I ended up buying one myself. (almost 300$) and I named him dude. Dude the Bird. I was so happy to finally have a bird. I got him to roll over he even said iPhone prior to iPhones being what they are today. He was a mocking bird so they pick up sounds easy and say them back. I taught dude I love you.. and those where his last words when a hawk grabbed him. Second time. Not sure I'll ever try the 3rd. If they keep dying in my care I guess I wasn't supposed to own one. Now I have 3 cats and 2 dogs. With an itching heart for a bird, a blue one this time. But that won't be happening. any time soon if ever I'm so torn about them. They leave me in such heartache.
Okay, so sad time over.
The cage is from the last bird, Dude, and it's sort of a reminder to me not to cage my feathery friends. So as much as I want a new talking pet it's for the birds!!! hahaha
I do have this cute little area to sit in without weeds or grass growing. It's harder than I thought to rid my yard of pointless growing things. Just food, please!!
The garden has been started... need to get back to that, but first let's enjoy the night with a fire!!! And since the girls are over let's make it colorful. For those who have not seen a color fire, go to the store to find those color campfire packets and place it on the fire. No need to open the package... just read the instructions. It helps.
With that get yourself outside it's wonderful out there.
Good for you planting the lettuce already. I had a co-worker who grew Romaine lettuce in his yard and he'd whack off the tops to make salad and a few weeks later he'd have more lettuce ... and on and on all Summer. I never knew before that you could keep regrowing it. As to your birds, I am sorry to hear that and you know my sad story with my two birds, Sugar and then Buddy. I have a friend who has an Amazon Grey parrot. Her first Amazon Grey died about four years ago. It was the same tragic circumstance with a fire ... it happened in the kitchen and Cookie had a huge cage inside the house and another outside the house where they put him all Summer while they were on the porch. He was 25 years old at that time and there was a fire in the oven, a baking tin somehow caused the oven rack to collapse and the tin went onto a flame on this gas oven and caused a fire. Smoke filled the kitchen and it was just before Christmas so very cold outside so they could not move Cookie fast enough. Birds are very susceptible to smoke and vapors as you probably know. The hawk story - was he out of the cage and on a tether Pril? I don't like seeing the Cooper's Hawks at the Park or around my house - they spell trouble for the little birds and also the squirrels and bunnies.
ReplyDeleteHey, yeah he sadly was out of the cage i was getting the cage and my partner was holding him and flew out of his hands. if you listen to the birds there is a sound most make that is a hawk alarm. it's a chirp sound it sounds a lot like the redwing blackbird chirp. but a bit different. When i hear that noise i know trouble is around the corner. and normally can find the big guy. I'll have a post up sooner or later about the hawk i walked in on while it was eating.. didn't want to ruin his dinner so we stay backed the photos were not the greatest. took me a long while to like birds of pray after that attack. But they are birds too and i love all of them!
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