| My thoughts are many, considering that it's only four-thirty in the morning here in the Bay State, Boston, and New England, generally.
Aziza's turning out to be a doll, although, at five months, she's begun to test me more and more. In addition to her pensive states, she's also intelligent, and can be playful and mischievous as anything. I finally was able to paste the photo of Aziza into the Open thoughts diary for today, after a number of frustrating tries. Aziza, as I've pointed out on many occasions, has turned out to be quite an inquisitive, funny, intelligent and clever bird, beyond her months. When I change her pellets-boca nuts combo, she'll be waiting at the bottom of her cage, underneath the feeding dish panel so she can do her regular sneaking out of the cage ritual. It's funny, but it can be a bit unnerving at times, especially if I need to put her to sleep for the night, or leave the house to go somewhere. What's equally interesting and funny, however, is that she doesn't do this when I change her vegetables dish, or her drinking water. I guess the pellets/boca nuts dish is more convenient for her.
As an African Grey Parrot, which is rightfully known to be an excellent mimic, she's already begun to imitate my laugh, which might well be construed as a sign that she's on her way to talking. Although she doesn't have full flight, Aziza definitely can fly somewhat, as I really found out yesterday afternoon. For some reason, she took off from her favorite play top height, and landed on the uppermost third of one of my wooden venetian blinds, nearest to the top. I managed to talk her down, and she moved down toward the bottom of the blind, where I could get her. She'd chewed a couple of slight, small depressions in one of the slats, but I managed to pry her beak off and get her away from the blind before she could do any further damage. Like all birds, she's prone to destructive chewing, which is a survival instinct on their part, even for birds that were born, bred and hand-fed in captivity, as Aziza was. She's got a required band on one of her legs in order to prove it. Instincts still prevail. For that reason, I will not let Aziza on any of my furniture, due to the penchant for destroying things by chewing on them. Moreover, since the blind slats have a small bit of finish on the wood, I don't want to take a chance on her getting sick from that, either. Keeping my bird healthy, happy and protected is the goal, in addition to giving her lots of TLC.
At some point, I will be writing a longer essay about Aziza's Homecoming, but that's reserved for another day.
I haven't been to any movies for awhile, at least in part due to the fact that there haven't been any lately that've caught my interest, but I'm also keeping a watchful eye and a peeled ear for a movie that sounds appealing, and I keep my eyes out for a showing of West Side Story, or even a film festival that includes the movie. Watching WSS on TV, when it rolls around, is enjoyable, but, as I've said before, nothing beats seeing this great, golden oldie but keeper of a classic on the great big, wide movie screen, in a real movie theatre, with the lights down low, and with tons of other people around, as well. I might try to load some WSS pictures into my photobucket account at some point, to also include in one of my weekly Open Thoughts thread, but that, too, is for another time and week.
Right now, I think, but I'm not sure, that we're supposed to get some sort of relief from the heatwave that we've been having. Boy, oh boy, that will be a relief. I walked over to the Galleria Mall nearby and bought a new, regular, corded phone, and tried to see about buying a portable perch for Aziza at the nearby Petco. No luck on the latter, however. I'll find out something. I may have to buy it online, which I don't like to do, because I think it leaves one too vulnerable to hacking or whatever, but that's just me.
So, these are my main thoughts for today. What's on your mind, everybody? Just curious. |
