IT'S NEVER TOO LATE!

Well, I did it.  I broke down and bought, not one but, two parakeets yesterday.  I decided I wanted to have them to be thankful for on Thanksgiving and someone to talk to over the weekend.  I hope to spend Wednesday night and Thanksgiving with a friend, but I will come back Friday morning and want to have company for the rest of the weekend.

I got a blue and black and white male, who I named Twitter and a mostly white with purple and black and white wings female I call Chitter.  I was not smart enough to take the cage down to the pet store at the corner of the building I live in so the owner could put them in for me.  Instead, he put them in a box.  When I opened it to get them,  they flew out.  I spent a major portion of the day trying to coax them into the cage, but did get them in.  They are still getting settled in and haven’t been making any noise yet, but it took Tweeter quite awhile to start tweeting too.  \

I think these birds will get used to me quicker.  I touched Chitter’s tail, which was sticking through the bars, this morning and she didn’t seem to feel it or notice that I was doing it.  Twitter has climbed around the cage a bit and eaten from a seed tree treat he climbed a ladder to reach.  But, Chitter has not been active yet.  Being a female (so the pet store owner said), it will probably be the noisier of the two, while the male (I am pretty sure Twitter is a male) is the more adventurous, just like children.  I left the radio on for them when I left because Tweeter liked to listen to music.  It will be good to have someone to talk to when I come home again.