Well, it didn't work out too well. I successfully stopped him/her from going under the hutch. And, I made new hidey holes for him. But, he had no interest in them just yet and my female lovebird found them first which started a fight between Oreo and Peaches. So, the hidey holes went bye byes.
Back to the drawing board.
One thing I know is, I have to keep them from fighting so all potential nesting sites must go. Which means my kitchen curtains must go. Even though Oreo is clipped, he is getting some flight feathers back so he is able to make it to the kitchen window.
I think I took on too much when I brought Peaches home.
I liked the dynamics of my flock before. We were happy. Why did I have to have Peaches? She has literally rearranged my whole entire flock and my house. Poor Peanut is so confused! He is in hormone overdrive all the time. My poor baby. I don't know what to do for him. Maybe I should consider rehoming Peaches??? :o( I don't even want to think about that because when an animal comes to live with us, this is their final home.
Hmm, what to do what to do????
Friday, October 16, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
A controversial post
Something that is gaining a lot of TV coverage these days is the flu and the flu vaccines.
First of all, thanks to all the journalists for successfully scaring my daycare children. They are so worried that they will get the swine flu. The journalists have made it sound as if it is the worst thing to a plague EVER and you WILL die from it, so naturally, they are scared out of their minds.
I have tried telling them that since they are healthy children, no underlying conditions, the swine flu will be just like having the regular flu to them. They will not die from the flu. I can't express enough to them how hand washing is so very important, as is covering your sneezes and coughs. Although, since I am not a doctor, to them, that discredits me.
Common sense goes a long way!
Now, to the vaccines. *sigh* I am not anti vaccine. I am, however, against shooting our young babies with over 74 vaccines by the time they are 6 years old! And, then, on The View yesterday, the doctor told them that the vaccines they had as a child are no longer in working. So, you need to be re vaccinated for some of them.
Wait? What? How long ago did they stop working? So, how did all these diseases get virtually erased if the vaccines we had stopped working in our systems?
They were already on their way out...There is proof that the Polio disease was already on its way out before the vaccine was invented.
Back to the flu vaccine. The vaccine is not going to stop you from getting the flu. There are too many strains of the flu to make a viable vaccine. Plus, there are too many people wanting the vaccine that they have to keep diluting it with preserves so all you're getting is part of the vaccine.
Do you know what vaccines are made from? You would be absolutely appalled if you knew what was in a vaccine. Why are we so health conscious that we eat all locally grown organic food, no prepackaged junk food, all fresh, etc etc but yet the toxins and JUNK that are being injected to our children are all OK?
Do your homework and see what is exactly in those vaccines that doctors are advocating.
First of all, thanks to all the journalists for successfully scaring my daycare children. They are so worried that they will get the swine flu. The journalists have made it sound as if it is the worst thing to a plague EVER and you WILL die from it, so naturally, they are scared out of their minds.
I have tried telling them that since they are healthy children, no underlying conditions, the swine flu will be just like having the regular flu to them. They will not die from the flu. I can't express enough to them how hand washing is so very important, as is covering your sneezes and coughs. Although, since I am not a doctor, to them, that discredits me.
Common sense goes a long way!
Now, to the vaccines. *sigh* I am not anti vaccine. I am, however, against shooting our young babies with over 74 vaccines by the time they are 6 years old! And, then, on The View yesterday, the doctor told them that the vaccines they had as a child are no longer in working. So, you need to be re vaccinated for some of them.
Wait? What? How long ago did they stop working? So, how did all these diseases get virtually erased if the vaccines we had stopped working in our systems?
They were already on their way out...There is proof that the Polio disease was already on its way out before the vaccine was invented.
Back to the flu vaccine. The vaccine is not going to stop you from getting the flu. There are too many strains of the flu to make a viable vaccine. Plus, there are too many people wanting the vaccine that they have to keep diluting it with preserves so all you're getting is part of the vaccine.
Do you know what vaccines are made from? You would be absolutely appalled if you knew what was in a vaccine. Why are we so health conscious that we eat all locally grown organic food, no prepackaged junk food, all fresh, etc etc but yet the toxins and JUNK that are being injected to our children are all OK?
Do your homework and see what is exactly in those vaccines that doctors are advocating.
A challenge
I love challenges! Especially the ones that have to deal with behavior in my children and in my birds. Today's challenge is to keep my lovebirds off the floor! My blue masked lovebird is finding that underneath my hutch in my kitchen is a neat place to hide. I've gotten some really good advice. The only thing is, he sneaks underneath there. He won't go under while we are watching him. He looks around to make sure no one is watching, but then if he even thinks we're going to be watching, he waits until we are busy. Even if we peek around the corner, he knows we're still watching!
So, I need to find a safe place for him to play that is out of the way. Just putting up a hideaway to make as his new clubhouse isn't going to work. He'll want it to be hidden... And, to make this challenge even harder; he is clipped but regaining some of his flight feathers. Even though, it is still hard for him to get to where he wants to go.
Where to put this hidey-hole? Nothing like rearranging your house for birds!! My house has gone to the birds LOL At least they let me have my favorite chair, the TV, and my coffee. I'm happy.
So, I need to find a safe place for him to play that is out of the way. Just putting up a hideaway to make as his new clubhouse isn't going to work. He'll want it to be hidden... And, to make this challenge even harder; he is clipped but regaining some of his flight feathers. Even though, it is still hard for him to get to where he wants to go.
Where to put this hidey-hole? Nothing like rearranging your house for birds!! My house has gone to the birds LOL At least they let me have my favorite chair, the TV, and my coffee. I'm happy.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
I watch too much TV
I do have my fav TV shows that I watch. Oprah is not one of my fav's, but I watch when there is something interesting on like yesterday, the day before, and today. Yesterday's show really hit home. I have not had anything happen to me like the family on the show yesterday, but it made me think. Or, have an ah-hah moment as she says.
I need to start appreciating the things in my life, even the little things in my life! Because I truly believe that someone, something somewhere says, "Well, you don't appreciate this so you do not deserve it." and poof, that thing is gone.
I get stuck on the stupidest things like my weight for example. I am thin, scary thin as some say but it is my genes. My mother is thin, my sister is thin, and my dad is thin. My grandfather's were thin. My grandmother's were thin when they were younger so there is hope for me yet.
Anyway, gosh I always go off topic...
Anyway, I get stuck on how small I am and think that people are staring at me when I go out of the house which some are, but gosh, at least I am not being stared at because I was burnt on 90% of my body.
She has such courage!
I need to start appreciating the things in my life, even the little things in my life! Because I truly believe that someone, something somewhere says, "Well, you don't appreciate this so you do not deserve it." and poof, that thing is gone.
I get stuck on the stupidest things like my weight for example. I am thin, scary thin as some say but it is my genes. My mother is thin, my sister is thin, and my dad is thin. My grandfather's were thin. My grandmother's were thin when they were younger so there is hope for me yet.
Anyway, gosh I always go off topic...
Anyway, I get stuck on how small I am and think that people are staring at me when I go out of the house which some are, but gosh, at least I am not being stared at because I was burnt on 90% of my body.
She has such courage!
School Violence on the Today Show
This morning, while feeding my nephew his baby cereal and fruit, I was watching the Today Show and was appalled! 61% of children in today's schools have witnessed violence. 25% have been a victim of a robbery and 46% have been assaulted. Why are our children being exposed to violence at school? School!? The place where every child should be safe! Some of these kids come from a not so nice home life. School should be their safe zone :o( Why are they being attacked in school!? I am so sad for these kids.
I blame parents and the teachers. Parents because some parents are not activily in their child's life for some reason or another...too self absorbed, too drunk or stoned, too into work, too depressed...what-have-you. Wake up parents! You had these children now parent them!!!!!
Yes, teachers do not make a whole lot of money. They knew this going into the profession. When some teachers start out, they hope to make a difference in a child's life, not get rich. Some where along the line it changed.
A soldier does not make a lot of money either and you don't hear them complaining. They are protecting our country, our lives, sometimes paying with their own life! Yet, they can qualify for welfare and WIC. We did. We got WIC when our children were babies and that is when we lived in base housing with no other bills but our utilities. Most of the time we didn't have a phone nor cable TV because we couldn't afford it.
Got a little sidetracked...sorry... Parents need to get control over their children. Teachers need to get control over their classrooms again. Do it for the rewards of seeing a child learn, to get it like you did when you first started teaching.
My son's kindergarten teacher was horrible! She was just a few years away from retirement, but should have quit long before she got my son. She did not enjoy children, especially the ones who needed help. She just wanted to teach the good quiet ones. The things she did to my son could equal abuse in my opinion. And, in my husband's opinion and anyone else that you talk to.
She would make my son miss his bus just because he was a bit pokier than the rest of the students. he'd lose focus of what he was suppose to be doing...one day when I had had enough of it, she made him miss the bus. I went off on her! I told her that what if someone saw my son standing out on the sidewalk crying and just scooped him up and left. I told her that I would have charged her with negligence. Then I said that I had no way of coming to get him and she'd have to bring him home herself. I mean, really, that is why he rode the bus! We lived too far from the school to walk and I didn't always have a car at home to transport him myself.
After he got home that day, I also called the school and told them the same exact thing. I don't know if she got reprimanded for that or not, I doubt it really.
Well, to my utter amazement, she did bring him home and that was the end of letting him miss his bus!
Now this lady is running for school board! Heaven help us all if she wins which she probably will as she was a favorite teacher to the good quiet kids.
I just think a teacher is the most influential person in a child's life. She/he is the one that is going to either make the child enjoy school or make the child despise school.
I blame parents and the teachers. Parents because some parents are not activily in their child's life for some reason or another...too self absorbed, too drunk or stoned, too into work, too depressed...what-have-you. Wake up parents! You had these children now parent them!!!!!
Yes, teachers do not make a whole lot of money. They knew this going into the profession. When some teachers start out, they hope to make a difference in a child's life, not get rich. Some where along the line it changed.
A soldier does not make a lot of money either and you don't hear them complaining. They are protecting our country, our lives, sometimes paying with their own life! Yet, they can qualify for welfare and WIC. We did. We got WIC when our children were babies and that is when we lived in base housing with no other bills but our utilities. Most of the time we didn't have a phone nor cable TV because we couldn't afford it.
Got a little sidetracked...sorry... Parents need to get control over their children. Teachers need to get control over their classrooms again. Do it for the rewards of seeing a child learn, to get it like you did when you first started teaching.
My son's kindergarten teacher was horrible! She was just a few years away from retirement, but should have quit long before she got my son. She did not enjoy children, especially the ones who needed help. She just wanted to teach the good quiet ones. The things she did to my son could equal abuse in my opinion. And, in my husband's opinion and anyone else that you talk to.
She would make my son miss his bus just because he was a bit pokier than the rest of the students. he'd lose focus of what he was suppose to be doing...one day when I had had enough of it, she made him miss the bus. I went off on her! I told her that what if someone saw my son standing out on the sidewalk crying and just scooped him up and left. I told her that I would have charged her with negligence. Then I said that I had no way of coming to get him and she'd have to bring him home herself. I mean, really, that is why he rode the bus! We lived too far from the school to walk and I didn't always have a car at home to transport him myself.
After he got home that day, I also called the school and told them the same exact thing. I don't know if she got reprimanded for that or not, I doubt it really.
Well, to my utter amazement, she did bring him home and that was the end of letting him miss his bus!
Now this lady is running for school board! Heaven help us all if she wins which she probably will as she was a favorite teacher to the good quiet kids.
I just think a teacher is the most influential person in a child's life. She/he is the one that is going to either make the child enjoy school or make the child despise school.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Someone slap me
Or at least block Craigslist from my computer, please. I see these posts about birds being locked in cages all day long, every day and then people advertising them on CL saying they are mean birds :o( I'd be mean, too if someone locked me up all day, every day.
Think about it... You wake in the morning knowing exactly what is going to happen that day. Another day of being neglected. Another day of sitting staring out into space. Another day of eating the same nasty food. Not having anything to do, no one to talk to... Pretty soon you'd be wishing NOT to wake up in the morning :o(
I feel so sorry for these beautiful creatures and want to make life better for them. They did not ask for you to purchase them and they certainly did not ask for you to stick them in a cage. A bird, a majestic creature that was made to fly not be locked up in a cage!!
Enough ranting. The point to my little speech was that we are getting a new family member! A little girl, peach faced lovebird! Who ironically enough, looks like my Peanut.
Can I seriously block CL from my computer?
Think about it... You wake in the morning knowing exactly what is going to happen that day. Another day of being neglected. Another day of sitting staring out into space. Another day of eating the same nasty food. Not having anything to do, no one to talk to... Pretty soon you'd be wishing NOT to wake up in the morning :o(
I feel so sorry for these beautiful creatures and want to make life better for them. They did not ask for you to purchase them and they certainly did not ask for you to stick them in a cage. A bird, a majestic creature that was made to fly not be locked up in a cage!!
Enough ranting. The point to my little speech was that we are getting a new family member! A little girl, peach faced lovebird! Who ironically enough, looks like my Peanut.
Can I seriously block CL from my computer?
Thursday, October 1, 2009
I'm a bad fidmomma
See, I had good intentions. I really did. But, I was so pooped from helping my sister move that I didn't get to read to Joey last night. He so enjoys his bedtime story. I feel so bad :o(
I'll read him a story this morning to make up for the one I didn't read last night.
To make matter's worse, the 2 little girls that I watch in the morning for 2 hours, have a 2 hour delay this morning. So, instead of going to school at 8, they won't be going in until 10 which will be cutting into my morning with the birds.
This always happens. I vow to do better and something cuts me off at the knees. Why? What did I do to tempt karma?
Seriously, I know better. Sometimes I get a little whiny and feel superior to such bumps in the road like school schedules. I feel as if they are personally attacking me sometimes. See, I am so superior that the schools sit in a little room and discuss how they can make Jally's life harder LOL Ok, all kidding aside I know that isn't true.
My wonderful therapist taught me that I need to have the confidence in myself to know that I can work through life's little speed bumps. Still working on that topic...
I'm going to have such a great day! Peanut's new cage (well half of it...the other half is in MD so should be here sometime today) was delivered yesterday while I was helping my sister. So, today I get to decorate his new cage!! Yoohoo!!! I love rearranging cages. It is like setting up a preschool room for children!
But...my sister might call me to watch the baby while she cleans her old apartment. If that happens, I will be just fine and I'll work around that. I have plenty to do in the daycare room while he naps.
Peanut is still his usual terror self. He has found my son's stuffed animals in his closet, and my stuffed animals in my closet...SHOOSH!! LOL My son doesn't have a door to his closet because it broke a long time ago, so I can't shut his door. I don't like his bedroom door shut (he's 15, need I say more???) so the only alternative is to get rid of his stuffed animals.
Oh dear, I bet you're wondering why a 15 year old boy still has stuffed animals. He has Asperger's which is a form of autism and change is hard for him. And, getting rid of his stuffed animals would be like saying good bye to his childhood-his younger self and that would be devastating.
So, what to do, what to do?
I'll read him a story this morning to make up for the one I didn't read last night.
To make matter's worse, the 2 little girls that I watch in the morning for 2 hours, have a 2 hour delay this morning. So, instead of going to school at 8, they won't be going in until 10 which will be cutting into my morning with the birds.
This always happens. I vow to do better and something cuts me off at the knees. Why? What did I do to tempt karma?
Seriously, I know better. Sometimes I get a little whiny and feel superior to such bumps in the road like school schedules. I feel as if they are personally attacking me sometimes. See, I am so superior that the schools sit in a little room and discuss how they can make Jally's life harder LOL Ok, all kidding aside I know that isn't true.
My wonderful therapist taught me that I need to have the confidence in myself to know that I can work through life's little speed bumps. Still working on that topic...
I'm going to have such a great day! Peanut's new cage (well half of it...the other half is in MD so should be here sometime today) was delivered yesterday while I was helping my sister. So, today I get to decorate his new cage!! Yoohoo!!! I love rearranging cages. It is like setting up a preschool room for children!
But...my sister might call me to watch the baby while she cleans her old apartment. If that happens, I will be just fine and I'll work around that. I have plenty to do in the daycare room while he naps.
Peanut is still his usual terror self. He has found my son's stuffed animals in his closet, and my stuffed animals in my closet...SHOOSH!! LOL My son doesn't have a door to his closet because it broke a long time ago, so I can't shut his door. I don't like his bedroom door shut (he's 15, need I say more???) so the only alternative is to get rid of his stuffed animals.
Oh dear, I bet you're wondering why a 15 year old boy still has stuffed animals. He has Asperger's which is a form of autism and change is hard for him. And, getting rid of his stuffed animals would be like saying good bye to his childhood-his younger self and that would be devastating.
So, what to do, what to do?
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