it's a budgie morning

i was greeted this morning by a lot of chirping and fuss, it seems that the budgies decided they were out of food! (two HUGE FULL food cups plus treat cup and they think they are out of food- and no it wasn't hulls i checked)

so since i am a good mommy and they got me well trained.....i dumped out the seed and filled up both cups again... i checked the seed and there was some hull but still a LOT of seed. oh well... now they got full cups again

i am also working on switching them to a mash/veg/legume diet with minimal seed.... and i would prefer the seed that they DO eat is sprouted. they don't agree with this so it's slow

aren't they cute? that is mrs fezziwig on the left and on the right is both of them... captain cuttle was on the cuttle bone chirping at me and at her-now they are playing with their toys

after all that they each ate two seeds out of their cup! i think maybe they just wanted attention?

we got woken up again today by bernie's job..... today's wake up was because a driver had run out of fuel in one of the units, a diesel unit. she was a bit annoyed with bernie that she had to wait until someone got out there, and was demanding that 'someone' get a 'gas can' however gas and diesel don't mix ....poor bernie was trying desperately to wake up as he'd been in deep rem sleep. (i could hear it in his voice.........he's exhausted) I made bernie call one of his guys out to deal with it... so bernie sent danny.  as danny was RIGHT THERE although he still had to make the driver wait as the gas station didn't open until 8 am.

but that was it more or less for bernie's sleeping. he does worry about his guys when they go on road calls and even if the drivers are nasty to him (which is pretty rare actually, as he does try hard to take immediate care of the downed units) he worries about the drivers as well.

he's also ALWAYS polite to them, no matter how stupid a mistake they made. that makes me so proud of him. he's amazing with the amount of patience he shows for people's sometimes really dumb mistakes

right now he's making us breakfast, and i am stoking the wood stove and writing to you folks (and drinking some really excellent coffee..... bernie ironically makes fantastic coffee...and he is a TEA DRINKER!)

i don't know what we are going to do today, most likely make bernie rest more....i got him to lay down for a nap yesterday for a few hours... and then he went up at 10pm

i told him that maybe he needs another nap this afternoon...... he's still trying to catch up from february sleep depravation

so i am not really pushing him to do anything more then get the wood in

thaddeaus is feeling better, he had a rough day yesterday with his sinus. the meds the vet gave us for him have started to work i think today. we did everyone's nails yesterday and later we'll give him some of the fast balace GI just in case (he threw up last night) calpurrnia is fine now...... no more green runs.......fawn is just sneezing a bit.. but the boy is still iffy.... better but not tip top yet

he really looks like a curly lamb all over now.... i i hope you can see his curls in this.....they are all down his legs too and his little belly as well.....all over really

he's got a bit of sleep in his eye too, which when he'll let me i can take out...it's from his cold.

anyway that's him sitting in the window right over the woodstove.

we're about to take the ducks out for the day, i think falstaff in the A frame again....with momma and lilli out back and my phoebe in the small temp pen.... this juggling ducks isn't as much fun as it sounds.

i got to clean pens and crates too this week

along with drawing polar bears and such.

just in case anyone wants to know why polar bears...

all along on this blog i been writing down the day to day life and stories about the animals here. winter time is especially fun with the ducks (not) they swear they see stuff in the snows and ice. usually it's stuff that they think will EAT their feathery little butts

like killer whales (when there was snow patches on the black driveway) or polar bears (their first snow, everything was all white) monsters in the swirling leaves. ( well duh! obviously or the leaves wouldn't be SWIRLING......- you just gotta think like a duck)

considering they stand what? maybe 9'' tall giver take an inch or 3..........

i guess large predatory creatures after them is a real fear.

so anyway, when i started this, i decided to go back to my roots, which is as an illustrator, and the only thing i really have around is animals..... so i started with duck stories. i could have easily started with chicken stories, or lamb stories or cat tails...

but it was ducks

(i was asked why ducks.......... well we ain't exactly got dancers or nudes laying around all over the place...ducks we got-draw and write what you know)

plus they make me laugh.... they also make me cry and get seriously annoyed but hey the way to true love does not appear to be smooth

the biggest is that they do make me laugh...... and i hope you folks get to laugh too. the ducks don't mind, as a matter of fact they SEEM to try to make me laugh, and they are really sweet little things, and because they are i figure they would be trying to make you all laugh too

AND they WAG their tails...

what's not to like?

(plus no quacking....... peace, heavenly peace)

ok and speaking of our models.... i need to get them out, and at least clean momma's crate as lilli's was just done last week

and i also need to get a jump on the chickens but that will be during the week

as polar bears are calling me..............(more like taunting me but hey....)

til next time

vi