A Dusting of the Cobwebs: My Poor Birds...

A Dusting of the Cobwebs....

welcome to my blog!
...allow me a brief introduction...

In a reacent conversation with my daughter, her questions were why I, and her Dad were so quiet about our lifes? Meaning writing or telling about our own personal historys.

I didn't think there was anything important to write about. As I was just a normal person, getting up in the morning and getting the day started, getting kids off to school, or meeting schedules of the whole family, cleaning house, and landry. Keeping little ones busy, and changing diapers, comming home fixing dinner, helping with homework, putting kids to bed, watch some news, go to bed. And then do it all over again the next day. Then some days was teaching lessons in Primary, RS, MIA, Sundayschool, cub scouts, or helping at schools, ect. Family home evening, Visiting teaching, and even some Home teaching and being the family schaefer. most of the time we had one car, 6 kids, one working husband. Oh yes, the multi years of music lessons, and baseball teams, coaching, and even one major jumproap champion, for one daughter.

We had trials too. some were very hard, just thinking about a single memory of losing our son, brings tears. But we are told that this life is to meet trials, and how we handle them will be for our own eternal growth.

A very wise Stake President, President Alred, once said "We are here to be schooled in the principles of eternity. We will work by the sweat of our brow, to work our way through this life... But remember we are here to be schooled in the principles of eternity."

So, I welcome you to my blog. Please feel free to stay and go as you please, and wander where you wish. And, as always, feel comfortable in sharing those stories that you may feel are just "an every day" thing as well...

Jul 27, 2011

My Poor Birds...

At this time I have four birds living with us. Two green-cheeks conyars, Baby and Jimmy. Two Jenday Conyars, Jenny, and Harmonie. Also staying with us for a few months is Jodie's Macaw, Tiki.

Tonight as I needed to feed the birds before they went to bed, I decided not to wear the hat that was on my head, as bird are mostly scared of hats, or brims that extend out from hats. It might be a change in the look they see when your mostly in the house with them. So I took it off, I had nothing to put on that was around me, and figured that I would only be a few minutes without it. (Big Mistake)

I walked in the room and started to talk to them and getting ready to get their dished to be filled with seed. They were scared of me, I was a stranger they had not seen before. Harmonie immediately went into defence mode, feathers up, and screaming at me, ready to protect her cage. (I raised her from almost hatching.) The other three were very leery of me, and Tiki, the Macaw went to the other side of his cage, as far away from me as he could get.

I did get my hat back on, and did get them fed, How ever they would not forgive me.
I had to ask Lynn to put them to bed.

I guess a HAT is better than No Hair....Bird Approved...

A Dusting of the Cobwebs