the nothing ,anything ,everything thread

[opmania]

This is a thread with no particular

Topic so no one can be off topic 🙂

So if anyone out there has something 

To say about anything you like now

Is your chance

Keep it clean 

And be nice 

See how long that lasts

Can we keep politics and religion out 

Of the conversation 

[domino-710]

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@ecar3483 wrote:

No doubt she's being a domestic Goddess... ha ha...

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Enough of that.

I'm gearing up to wear my fingers to the bone - dialing for Thai delivery.

[imastawka]

Daughter made Pad Thai last night.  It was delish.

And now for something completely different -

[domino-710]

Actually the vote has changed.

Now - finches & chimps. 

[onlineserbianukraine]

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@opmania wrote:

Gentle,thoughtful and peaceloving

With wisdom beyond your years

And very good looking 

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but is kopenhagen5 single after 4yrs??? 

unlikely i know but you don't know if you don't ask

[ecar3483]

🙂

[imastawka]

[ecar3483]

I made fast friends with an old man cockatoo who turned up towards the end of the Winter.

He decided to become a regular visitor due in some part to my habit of spoiling him, ha ha...

He has "His" perches, conveniently located so that I can hold a container of food out for him, and he can eat to his little heart's content.... ha ha...

I was holding a box for him this afternoon and was distracted by a squabble...

I looked, to see what was going on, and wasn't concentrating on where the box was...

So, in order to get my attention, he bit me, the cheeky old man... ha ha.

"Keep your mind on the job!... If you're going to spoil me, spoil me properly... I won't settle for any half measures...", ha ha.

This is the same bird who "tells" me when the, sorry, His, water dish is empty...

He sticks his head in it, all the way, then pulls his head out and glares at me... "There's not a drop to be found, and I looked!"...ha ha.

Then I have to get the watering can and refill the dish while he watches on, sternly, from a short distance (I might be okay, but you can never tell with that watering can...), ha ha...

Once I've put the watering can down, he'll walk over to the water dish where he'll make a big deal of dipping his beak in the water, then tilting his head back and swallowing, before repeating the whole performance... ha ha...

There are two perfectly good, filled, bird baths not much more than thirty, or maybe forty feet away, both in plain sight, but that doesn't matter... It's the principle... It's His water dish! ha ha...

🙂

[ecar3483]

I couldn't get the back door open this morning...

There was an old man bird perched on the doorstep, head down, foraging between the doorstep and the doormat with his bottom pressed firmly against the door... ha ha...

I tapped on the glass - tap-tap, pause, tap-tap... which always works to get the pigeons moving but all I got was slight tilt of his head - an answer somewhere between "I'm not moving..." and "I'm not moving...", ha ha...

So I decided that desperate time required desperate measures, ha ha...

I put the seed box next to the door, tilted at an angle, where he could see it...

He might be an old bird, but he can turn 180 degrees as fast as the rest of them... ha ha...

Whatever it was between  the doormat and the doorstep suddenly wasn't anywhere near as interesting, ha ha ...

He wasn't quite pressed to the glass in the manner of a small child taking in a Myer Christmas window display but he wasn't far off, ha ha...

The next challenge came with getting the door open - the more I opened the door, the more old man bird squeezed though the gap, ha ha....

This wasn't, I could see, about to get any easier, as the box is broader than he is... in order to get it out, he'd have to come in...

Sometimes the simplest solution is the simplest solution - I let him in, ha ha...

He perched on the end of the box, immensely pleased with himself, and helped himself to the seed...

Meanwhile, I quietly opened the door, picked the box up by the other end and took him, seed box and all, outside.

Problem solved, ha ha ... Right, I'm off to make a cuppa, now... ha ha...

🙂

[domino-710]

Better still 

[ecar3483]

🙂