angel_bear
04-28-2005, 08:04 PM
Guess what .........
Yesterday morning, DH took MIL up to the hospital. It gave me a chance to get some laundry done, catch up with the cleaner and clean out the budgie cage. MIL adopted my kids 2 budgies last year when we 'semi' moved in and basically wouldn't hand 'em back!! Trouble is, she can't clean the cage anymore, forgets to feed and water them, and forget's all about them sometimes!! Poor little things!! Anway, their cage was PUTRID .. had things crawling in the bottom .. I usually try and do their cage on a Sunday when she's at church, but I haven't had time or have been away lately, so it was pretty bad. I took the birdcage down to the front to the high pressure hose, and gave it a GOOD hard hosing and a soak .. the birds even got a bit of a shower themselves (sneezing everywhere .. LOL) and I took them back to the backyard and put them on the old handmade outdoor BBQ, with their inside tray still out of the cage. There's a gap of about an inch when the tray is out.
Well then I caught up with the cleaner, did some laundry, got side-tracked, and after a while thought "OMG .. the budgies!!!!!! I wonder if they can fit through that 1 inch?" and went racing out the back door doing a head count on the cage .. 1 .................2 ................. what the? 3???????????
And there, on TOP of the cage, was a little green budgie, chatting to my two boys. So I went up and said "hello" and grabbed her (she didn't fuss) put a container of food up to her beak and she ATE and ATE and ATE .. so I popped her in with the boys, and hung the cage up (where MIL won't even ATTEMPT to get them down from)
See, I didn't want her counting and finding more and stressing .. cause she would, and she would either kill one, let them ALL go or something silly, better off NOT letting her know.
Good thing I have another cage in storage!! So when DH came home I told him my story and we dashed off and bought bird seed, toys and picked up the cage. Transfered one girl budgie, who is sitting up here trilling at everything that moves (she's in a really BAD mood LOL)
When Brianna came home from school yesterday, I pulled her over to me and said "Sweety, I need to talk to you about the budgies" and her lower lip dropped, and the eyes started to fill .. so I kept going (I am such a MEAN mother ........ LOL) "I was cleaning out their cage, and didn't get the bottom tray in cause I forgot" and she's got this lower lip out even further, and it's trembling .. I continued "so, well, I don't know how to tell you this, but you better look on the balcony ok?" and she's turned, head hung, lip even lower, tears just about overflowing, walks over to the balcony and says "Tweety survived?" and I said "Nope, this is a 3rd budgie that I found when I was cleaning the cage" ........ well the lip got sucked in, the eyes dried immediately and she was THRILLED !!!!!! this little girl budgie is IDENTICAL to Tweety except for the colour on her beak!!
So then Tamea get's home, and Brianna says "Let me tell the story Mum" and comes out with "Mum was cleaning the cages out, and forgot the tray and.............................WE'VE GOT ANOTHER BUDGIE"
Tamea missed it as she raced to the toilet .. LOL .... came back and said "What the ......?"
Cameron get's home from camp this arvo ....... won't he be surprised?
Hugs
Sally
Yesterday morning, DH took MIL up to the hospital. It gave me a chance to get some laundry done, catch up with the cleaner and clean out the budgie cage. MIL adopted my kids 2 budgies last year when we 'semi' moved in and basically wouldn't hand 'em back!! Trouble is, she can't clean the cage anymore, forgets to feed and water them, and forget's all about them sometimes!! Poor little things!! Anway, their cage was PUTRID .. had things crawling in the bottom .. I usually try and do their cage on a Sunday when she's at church, but I haven't had time or have been away lately, so it was pretty bad. I took the birdcage down to the front to the high pressure hose, and gave it a GOOD hard hosing and a soak .. the birds even got a bit of a shower themselves (sneezing everywhere .. LOL) and I took them back to the backyard and put them on the old handmade outdoor BBQ, with their inside tray still out of the cage. There's a gap of about an inch when the tray is out.
Well then I caught up with the cleaner, did some laundry, got side-tracked, and after a while thought "OMG .. the budgies!!!!!! I wonder if they can fit through that 1 inch?" and went racing out the back door doing a head count on the cage .. 1 .................2 ................. what the? 3???????????
And there, on TOP of the cage, was a little green budgie, chatting to my two boys. So I went up and said "hello" and grabbed her (she didn't fuss) put a container of food up to her beak and she ATE and ATE and ATE .. so I popped her in with the boys, and hung the cage up (where MIL won't even ATTEMPT to get them down from)
See, I didn't want her counting and finding more and stressing .. cause she would, and she would either kill one, let them ALL go or something silly, better off NOT letting her know.
Good thing I have another cage in storage!! So when DH came home I told him my story and we dashed off and bought bird seed, toys and picked up the cage. Transfered one girl budgie, who is sitting up here trilling at everything that moves (she's in a really BAD mood LOL)
When Brianna came home from school yesterday, I pulled her over to me and said "Sweety, I need to talk to you about the budgies" and her lower lip dropped, and the eyes started to fill .. so I kept going (I am such a MEAN mother ........ LOL) "I was cleaning out their cage, and didn't get the bottom tray in cause I forgot" and she's got this lower lip out even further, and it's trembling .. I continued "so, well, I don't know how to tell you this, but you better look on the balcony ok?" and she's turned, head hung, lip even lower, tears just about overflowing, walks over to the balcony and says "Tweety survived?" and I said "Nope, this is a 3rd budgie that I found when I was cleaning the cage" ........ well the lip got sucked in, the eyes dried immediately and she was THRILLED !!!!!! this little girl budgie is IDENTICAL to Tweety except for the colour on her beak!!
So then Tamea get's home, and Brianna says "Let me tell the story Mum" and comes out with "Mum was cleaning the cages out, and forgot the tray and.............................WE'VE GOT ANOTHER BUDGIE"
Tamea missed it as she raced to the toilet .. LOL .... came back and said "What the ......?"
Cameron get's home from camp this arvo ....... won't he be surprised?
Hugs
Sally