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This afternoon, Kiwi the Grey said the words “Holy crap”. To my mother. I was bragging about it on Facebook when I remembered that Wednesday morning, I was at work and my mother, Kay, e-mailed me from the hotel. She sent the details of… Continue Reading “Conversations with Kiwi”
We are now in Day 5. 32 years of junk has been removed from the basement. Demolition is complete. Apparently, it took three trucks in addition to this dumpster to get rid of all the drywall, ceiling tiles and general crap that was down… Continue Reading “Operation SporeKill”
My brother’s contribution to the great Mold Removal Project of 2009 was to take in the fish. They were actually his fish, anyway: he left them at the house when he moved out. Seven years ago. First, he had to convince his wife. Then,… Continue Reading “New Home for the Fish”
Kiwi the Grey is boarding at the rescue. I took her in on Monday and she no longer finds it amusing. I plan to go in every day after work to give her the medicine, but today was my regular day to volunteer, anyway.… Continue Reading “Update”
We have seen the mold guys are were informed that every living, breathing creature must vacate the premises while the work is being done. Seven to nine days. And I am pretty sure he meant working days. Do you know how hard it is… Continue Reading “Moldmoldmold”
I came home today to meet a guy about removing all of the mold from my house. I went up the stairs, thinking I would start a load of laundry. Then I saw this: Damn. What did I leave in my garbage that the… Continue Reading “What Was the Point of That?”
The good news is that she likes to eat corn on the cob. The bad news is that she prefers shredding it all over the floor. Also – I got her to take her medicine the other night. By injecting it into a McDonald’s… Continue Reading “Kiwi and Food”
Last Friday, after learning that Kiwi was fighting off aspergillus in her system, I went to get my allergy shot. Shots, actually. We separated them into two because several weeks ago, I starting having a skin reaction and I wanted to figure out which… Continue Reading “Stupid, Stupid Aspergillus”
Last month, when we had the painting done downstairs, the painter said there was some mold behind the wallpaper in Kiwi’s Room, formerly know as the dining room. Crap. Birds in general, and African Greys in particular, are really sensitive to mold. Aspergillosis, an… Continue Reading “Stupid Aspergillus”
Kiwi the Grey was just sitting right there, on that perch, in my bedroom, looking out the window. I was on my bed, fooling around online. She said, “Shadow go outside?” I got up and walked over to her. The dog was in the… Continue Reading “You Guys Aren’t Going to Believe This”
The Next Dark Age 