Having a few minutes to hand, and having watched the old man cockatoo with the busted up leg climb a ramp the day before, I wondered if making a ramp that sat at less of an angle would make it easier to climb...

The suggestion has been bandied about that I should hang the expense and build an escalator, but those things are complicated... ha ha.

Would it even be possible to build a "shallower" ramp, given that I have two fixed end points for it...

The question is how clever can I get, and still stay within the bounds of the laws of physics... ha ha.

Well, there's nothing like having a look-see...

I got a long garden stake - it's a good way of measuring angles and lengths in a "put it where I think it should go, then stand back and look at it and see what I think...", way.

"None shall pass the gatekeeper", or in this instance, the old man cockatoo who spends his days here.

He insisted on being shown the garden stake, and on having it held up to him so that he could bite it, and taste it, ha ha.

He doesn't have to know, or be involved in everything, but the more that he's involved, the happier he is, ha ha. 

I asked him if he was okay with me calling him Old man - I say "Good morning, Old man", when I see him, first up.

He said he was fine with that, after all, I also call him Old man bird when I want him to ignore me, ha ha.

"Or are you trying to get me to do something, or go somewhere? Good luck with that...", ha ha.

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