Birds just wanna have fun (like girls and quakers)

'ello.

So this past week...one of the parakeets died. Lil' ol' Blueberry. (she was blue). It wasn't altogether unexpected. But it was still a little sad.

Over the years...I believe we've had a total of 6 different parakeets (well, technically, they're budgerigars). They're wonderful little birds, very small, very fun, and pretty easy to teach. The first four we got when I was like...four. There was a green one (which we named Lettuce/Leafy, depending on the day), a white one (Frosty), a yellow one (Sunny), and a blue one (Blueberry). Blueberry didn't like us. But they all seemed to enjoy themselves, and climbed around on rope toys, and pecked at themselves in mirrors, and whatever else budgies do.

Good ol' Leafy was a wonderful bird. He always would climb up and down your arm, chirp softly, and just do good birdy things. And then he died, because he was rather old when we got him.

Frosty was a good bird too. Always doing the finger-ladder and stuff. When I was around ten, my younger sister Sara, friend Mitch, and I all "married" Frosty to Blueberry. We had a toy car and a red "carpet" made of red construction paper (apparently in our young minds, good weddings had red carpets), and a whole lot of willpower, because Blueberry bit each of us several times.

The first Blueberry, as aforementioned, was never that nice to us. And someone put a strange plant on top of the cage, which she nibbled, and then she died. We got another blue bird and named her Blueberry as well. And she was prettier but even more feisty. And now she's dead. (not as a direct cause. We don't kill birds...)

The first Sunny was great, too. And then she flew into a wall and died. We buried her in a box in the back yard. And we got a new yellow bird, also named Sunny, who is the only one alive today. Since she's all alone, I like to turn on a classical music station on pandora for her during the day when nobody's home, so it's not too deathly quiet around, and she chirps seemingly happily.

So that would be all I've got for you now. I've made a whole list of things I wanna post about though. So...stay tuned? I mean...few people probably actually read this, and I don't always tend to write very interestingly or have anything good to say, but neither do most bloggers, so whateva.

Adios