My mom's Angel!

My mom has a cockatiel named Angel. Her first cockatiel was named Petey. She thought Petey was a boy, but she was actually a girl. (Mom found out when Petey laid eggs!) My mom was in the hospital for a while, and she had me take her home. I was living with housemates Jim & Becky at the time. Becky is a very clean person. Becky cleaned Petey's cage several times a week. She also put Petey out on the back porch almost every day when it was warm because Petey was kinda loud and messy. Becky took Petey's cage apart to clean it while she was outside once and somehow Petey flew away! My mom was kind of sad about that.

When I was home I took a couple pictures of my mom's current bird Angel. I think they're pretty cute! Angel is kind of scared of me, so I'm surprised she stayed where she was long enough for me to take a couple pictures. This first one is a bit dark because of the glare of snow coming through the window. She looks as if she's saying "whatcha doin'?"


In this one she turned away as I was taking her picture, but you can decide which is her "better side" haha!

I just realized I should have cropped this picture. The cage bar looks huge at the bottom of the picture. Oh well. I like how it's imperfect! Angel's feathers look a little ruffled, too. Mom said she's molting. She looks great to me, though.

Winter wonderland

It took me a long time to get this post written and up on my Myspace blog. The Photobucket tags don't work well on Myspace. I am reposting it here because I want something new here! It's about damn time for a new post!

It was frickin cold yesterday! It was NOT a wonderland in the positive sense of the word! It started out warm enough to rain, then the temperature dropped and wind picked up enough to cause quite a mess! There was sleet and snow and a lot of icy conditions. According to Weather Underground the high was 43 and low was -4 with maximum wind gusts of 44 mph! That's a BIG temperature change!

They let a lot of people go home early yesterday, including me. I thought I missed the bus because one rounded the corner as I was walking to the stop. I dusted snow off a rocky ledge and sat down because I thought I would have to wait in the cold and wind. However about 5 minutes later another bus came by. That rarely happens here in Madison, so the previous bus must have been very late and the one I caught must have been right on time! Yay for not having to wait in the frickin' cold for very long!

We've had a lot of snow in December as well. According to Weather Underground again, we had 33.5 inches of snow in December when the average is 12.6 inches. That's a lot! Of course I took some photos of the snow with my phone. I finally uploaded them to the net. This first one may look blurry, but it's actually heavy snow fall. I took it at night on State St. I like it a lot!


These pictures are of an apartment building near where I live. I'm pretty sure its college student housing. These pics were taken in early December. I think the residents were inspired to create a snow fort, but on the front porch! See the stacked snow bricks...


And another entire snow wall...


I hope you enjoyed these pics. They certainly took long enough to get uploaded and posted! I have been busy with work and not had a working computer at home.