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Am so glad to hear that Tinkerbell is doing well. Whew!!

In the evenings, I like to have some Redi-Whip whipped cream in my coffee. One day I was thinking to myself, "Geeze, they sure don't put as much in these cans as they used to..." Later that evening, I was sitting in the kitchen, and HRH Inara was in there on her perch in front of the "squirrels" windows. Joe came in and opened the fridge, and Inara made the perfect sound of canned whipped cream being squirted into a mouth!! I looked at Joe, and he said, "OK, I know this looks bad...." I burst out laughing and he confessed that he often when I was not around (apparently) would swing by the fridge and shoot some whipped cream out of the can straight into his mouth! Then he looked at Inara and said, "Stool pigeon!" Which of course made me laugh harder. These are some great stories! I loved reading them. Keep them coming

HRH Inara also enjoys whistling. When she was little, Joe taught her, "If I only had a brain," and I taught her the first few bars of "Over the Rainbow," so she uses those for our separate flock calls. Then hers is one she made up herself. She also (as many of you know, loves "Walk Like an Egyptian") can't wait for the whistling part in her favorite song. She gives a loud whistle after her danger sound when she is on the ground, and a few months ago took to doing what I call her "Taxi whistle" every time she convinces me to give her a ride back to her cage from another room. She hops on my shoulder and gives that whistle. She also has a singing song that she made up that goes like this: "I love carrrrrrots." With the carrrrots going up and emphasis on the 2nd syllable. She sings it in a pirate sounding voice (wth??hahah). She recently added a 2nd verse to it, "Joe loves carrrrrots." She really is delighted when she gives a whistle, if we answer with our own identifying one. And if we whistler hers, she dances with joy. OMG the stories of the door lock sound, and the "wait here comes the good part" foot, just slayed me!

HRH can also be pretty fleetfooted ! She does love toes, but doesn't bite mine. We play "get those toesies," where I hold my foot up and she come running and then I try to grab her beak with my toes. She loves it, crazy girl ! HOWEVER....she hates it when I try to put socks on in front of her. That is when she will move light lightening and try to nip at my foot. She's like a birdie F1 car at that point!

Well, also as an Internet oldtimer (back in the day when I had to stick my phone receiver into the modem cradle and telnet from Wyoming into Norman, OK to get access), I hope this forum never goes away. It was so comforting to have enough energy to pop back in and to see old friends and fids. Melts my heart. I suspended my Facebook account ages ago and I left all of my groups and deleted everyone from my friend list except for immediate family. It went from being a fun place to game and chat with friends to a quagmire of vitriol. Nope. I am on MeWe which has no ads, no trackers, no click bait, and I only use it for a small private group of 4 dear friends and myself so we can chat daily and share pics of our kids and grandkids. This forum seriously could be considered the Bible of Greys. There is such a wealth of info here that is unparalleled. I'm here until the fat lady sings.... xoxo Jane and HRH

You dont need an app, this system will adapt to ANY internet device that can access a web site. It looks a little narrow, but it lines up perfectly and is fully functional.

Motel 6 and Tom Bodett, the lights are on LOL. I edited the cuss word, sorry, I thought the filter would catch it. But it did generate some conversation

I stopped visiting here when my Dad was palliative and I was his full time caregiver, then it took me literally years to recover because of my own health struggles. I was so afraid you guys wouldn't be here when I typed in the web address, but so happy when you were. Missing some old familiar faces, but maybe, like me, they'll be back someday.

Tinkerbell is doing fine now. She's back to biting me and giving me strong corrections. Conures do tend to have big-billy-bad-a** syndrome. Gram-for-gram though, the scrappiest fighter of all my birds is Toby my Caique. He will take on GreycieMae and has won that battle a couple times. I don't let them all have fight-nights but sometimes the idiots will find an opportunity to get it on.