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Talon, your home reminds me of that song "I'm gonna hire a wino" [to decorate our home]. Only it looks like you hired parrots. 🤣

We moved into a house with really high angled ceilings and haven't seen any crash landings. Are they actually crashing into the walls? Only think we've had issues with is a mirror on the wall in the living room that Huey and Seewee have mistaken for the door to the other section of the house and flew right into it. It now has a blanket on it.

I have to lock Huey up when I clean up those piles or do any messing around in 'HIS' bird room. He's very possessive of his room.

The Art: The Artist:

oh oh....I see some spoiled rotten Greys in this thread 🥰. Is that a green bean Timber has in there 🤣

You know that "tell us blah blah blah without telling us blah blah blah"? Grey version: "Tell us your Greys are completely spoiled rotten without telling us your Greys are completely spoiled rotten"

Who knew Timmies were such piggies 🤣

It's been super quiet around here. GreycieMae is busy teaching (and using) mommy to get her morning nut. If not fast enough she flies down to the floor and will start ankle biting or attacking a toe. She will actually lead Marietta to the door that leads into the cubboard where the nuts are stashed. When Marietta gets the nut, GreycieMae will then lead her to the counter where I have a casserole dish waiting and will crack the nut for them. Huey has taken up a new role as Chief-of-Organization. Marietta usually takes him in with her and they both get their faces put-on. Huey has taken to de-cluttering her pull-out drawer. He loves tossing hair scrunchies, glasses, anything paper or cardboard. The drawer looks real nice when he's done, but everything is on the floor I guess waiting for the trash man? Would love to see a video of Alfie's new noises. I love how they pick up stuff, especially anything laced with sarcasm. I think it's ingrained in them.

Oops....sorry, I though my humor made it through the posting. I was making fun because he tucked that footy in so tight it couldn't be seen. Huey has two legs. He uses both of them to kick my butt when I'm not picking up on his cues that he's thirsty, hungry, tired of me, etc.... Here he is showing the excellent workmanship he does

Huey has a toe that sits forward instead of back. I think it bugs me more than him. I've pulled it back a few times and it goes right back. He also lost a leg fighting in the trenches during the great war so now he's a peg leg. 🤣

I have an amazing gift to be able to make both my wife and her bird, Huey, very cranky. When I see this posture, I better watch out. Huey has been known to launch full flight and attack me, usually because I'm doing something I've been warned about repeatedly, like sticking that damn camera in my face 🤣

I'll need to add GreycieMae more often but Huey is such a clown I have to add a story about him. Both Huey and GreycieMae workout with Daddy. Most of the time we all pile into the spare bedroom where I have my bike setup on a trainer and we blast the music. Greycie LOVES loud tunes, she hops onto my back and gets all goosey while I pedal and do whatever workout I'm doing that day. Lately, the wife has been watching some fart pranks on youtube while we all relax in bed in the evenings just before lights out. Some of them are hilarious and we laugh and laugh. Huey has obviously taken notes. So today, my workout has been ab rollers and off-bike stuff out the back door into the aviary where they hang out during the day. I started doing them there because the birds get a real kick out of watching me. I started doing them and on the back stroke I let out a RAWWWWRRRRR just like Huey always does. He taught me this. But today on about the fourth rep, he rips a a long fart noise and giggles. I know he's been watching our fart pranks on TV after that little episode. What a prankster.

In case you need some motivation to get ready for the upcoming holidays. Huey loves himself a nice baking pumpkin! 380944991_6993025787397905_8675763375061282895_n.mp4

Wow, just reading this. I just watched a video of Griffi a few days ago. Had no idea. 😥

I haven't been on in a few months! Starting in June our renter decided to move out from a 1.5 year residency and what a disaster! Broke windows, burned holes in the wood floors, let a kid draw on every wall in the house except three of the bedrooms. That kid also broke every blind it could reach. They tore stuff up outside including trashing our window screens, pulling the ground cord off the house. This idiot had the gall to want his deposit back too! I told him to take it to court and let's see if I don't get awarded a few thousand more to cover the cost above the deposit. Haven't heard from the idiot since. So that was June, we spent a ton of time at that house in Allen which is over an hour. We really scrambled trying to get it ready for the new tenants that wanted in by Jun 27. We got them in and I was still working on that weekend of July 1st fixing more stuff. Then the weekend of July 8/9, wife said we need to go have some fun. That means driving her around to little towns where she can see the city squares and poke around in the stores. Do a little disc golf too if we find a course nearby. And then, a day that will live in infamy, at least for me and my colleagues: July 10, 2023. I work for the largest PBM (pharmacy benefits manager, you can probably look it up and get a good guess what company that is) and we handle TONS of pharmacy claims, benefits queries, drug lookups, basically anything that gets run from your doctor or pharmacist, or health plan vendor and if your health plan is managed by our PBM, it will come into the systems that my team manages. Our production systems run on HP Nonstop systems. HP Nonstops are some of the most highly redundant system in the world. They are designed to run for years and years without stopping, crashing etc. IF, and that's a big IF, they are set up correctly. Everything is redundant on HP Nonstop systems, network cards, processors, application processes all have backup processes, these backup elements don't even have to be on the same machine running in the same local area. They can be across the world, in our case Arizona and Rhode Island. On July 10th, our main production system blinked. Half the dang IT company was pulled onto the bridge along with execs that never know what the hell is going on. We tried recovering this system to no avail and at 3pm CT, the decision was made to move production over to the mated system, in the same data center. I did not leave my chair for the next 40 hours straight. My wife was bringing me food and taking care of all the animals. At 40 hours I told the bridge I needed a small nap because I was getting delirious. So we paused for 30m and back at it for another 24 hours. It took us two weeks to get 100% recovered. We had doctors and pharmacists back online the evening of the first day but that was just the first of many battles. Ever since Jul10 it has been a shit show here. The execs of this company who never even knew what our systems do all of a sudden have a huge vested interest in anything and everything our team does. We made the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, trended on twatter and there is a huge discussion thread about the event on Reddit. We made the news but not in a good way! Anyhow, it's been just over two months since that event and I'm just now getting my personal life back. So we might be posting a little more. In the mean time, please enjoy a glamour shot of the Huey. Remember, Huey LOVES the ladies. Don't all swoon over him at once.