Life in the Land of Dreamy Dreams

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 [...]