Life in the Land of Dreamy Dreams

This conversation happened while bringing the new Senegal into the house on Saturday:
Mom: Gotta work on a name now.
Alison: I was thinking Dewey.
Mom: (pause) Since when are you such a fan of the decimal system?
Alison: (slowly shakes her head) Mom, that’s just sad.

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…um. Lots, actually.
We traveled, and hosted travelers. Read much, wrote some. Geared up for the political season. Got stood up by Mayor Nagin. Toured vaunted institutions of higher education pretending to be mature so as to fool the admissions people into thinking she comes from people of class and allow her to attend.
Along [...]

I saw this CNN headline and knew it was a grey:
Lost parrot gives vet his name and address
The poor boy got lost in Tokyo and was first taken to the police station, but I guess he didn’t want to be a stool pigeon (har har), so he wouldn’t talk to the cops. A few days [...]

A few days ago I put up youtube videos of the amazing Tui, and I’ve since found out she’s lost, having been caught in a crosswind and swept away when Andrew began flight training her.
He told me he has a substantial reward offered and is relentlessly walking the neighborhood and getting as [...]

So I received notice that there was something new up on a particular YouTube channel. That led me to look at my other subscriptions, one of which is to Andrew & Tui.
Andrew is a Kiwi living in Kansas and Tui is the African Grey he’s trained since she was hatched. She clearly has his [...]

I don’t want to go into too much detail, but it’s been a tough week. Many little things went wrong along with one massive and unforeseen thing.
A terrible accident has taken Zulu way way before his time. I have been more devastated than I could have ever imagined possible by the loss of a [...]

Sunday was quite the busy day. There were Mardi Gras Indians, romps around the city, dinner with friends, shopping for Alison.
 Each of which pales beside something that took about 10 seconds to actually happen. Lunch was being delivered from a local sandwich place, so naturally the dogs went bananas when the bell rang.
This is S.O.P. [...]

I happened upon a Snowball the cockatoo video a while ago and just fell out.
Anyway, if you haven’t heard about him, he was left at a bird rescue like a foundling, with a note and a CD- and the rest, as they say, is history.
In case you haven’t seen him, here’s one of the videos- [...]

So I’d been thinking about getting an African Grey for a while now, and my b-day was coming up, so I dropped a few hints to Charlie, which were well received- likely even anticipated. There happened to be a bird show coming in about a month, so I figured that’d be where the deed would [...]