I've starting making Gregory wear a little flightsuit. Someday he might forgive me!

Posted by Nica @ 10:18 PM PST [Link]

I have a really interesting new member to my pigeon family. For those of you who do not regularly visit pigeons.com will need a little background reading.

I wasted little time in offering to care for Gregory. I went to Bremerton to meet Rich and Linda. Nice couple with fun stories of life in the country. We had fun chatting at a Starbucks near the Bremerton ferry dock. Rich had purchased a nice carrier for Gregory's trip to Seattle at a garage sale. He even added a little carpeting to it. All in all it was a nice travelling cab for the Gregory.

The ferry trip to and back was actually really nice. Here is Gregory and my husband as passengers to Seattle.

I can't say Gregory felt totally at ease with the situation.

I fed him and gave him some water, and he did seem to have an appetite.

I've been hoping that Gregory and Izze (a blind pigeon) can be cagemates. They're not fighting. As a matter of fact, they don't seem to interact at all. I think Izze has learned to accept that there is lots going on around him that he doesn't understand. At first he seemed worried about the sounds of another pigeon walking near him and occasionally flitting about, but then he just seemed to relax and accept it. Gregory for his part hasn't paid any attention to Izze. I know that there is a good chance that his arrangement won't work, so I'm going to be keeping a close eye on things.

Gregory is an interesting one. I think he (maybe she?) misses you Rich! I've noticed that Gregory will often peck at our hands, but at the same time seem very attached to us wanting to stay on our shoulders. He gets very uneasy in his cage sometimes and clearly is lonely for human company. I open the cage door, reach in, he pecks my hand, runs up my arm, and hangs out on my shoulder. Part of him probably misses Rich and Linda and resents Scott and me for taking him away. At the same time I think Gregory likes human company and he gets worried when he is not near us. Yes, Gregory is an interesting one.

Posted by Nica @ 01:54 AM PST [Link]

Michael Dyson is right, Bill Cosby really has dropped into old-fuddy-duddy land with his talk about black society. He talks about blacks having a 50% dropout rate. He's simply wrong. He gripes about the way kids talk, dress, and basically comes across these days as a crotchety old guy. He says he can't understand all that black slang and he is darn upset about it. Do Scotsmen with thick accents get his blood boiling as well?

Oh well. He has become old, real old.

Posted by Nica @ 11:53 PM PST [Link]