Meet the two newest members of the family, Wordsworth and Percy.
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- Nick Wheeler
- I'm gay. I used to be Mormon. I write about that here. I also write (or vlog!) about whatever else happens to be on my mind. Sometimes I post creative projects. If you want them or something similar for yourself or someone you love, email me, because I love money.
Congratulations, Nick!!
ReplyDeleteWhich one is which?
Did the petstore people, or breeder or whoever, tell you about feeding them pellets, and using seeds and veggies as supplements? I had a parakeet get liver disease from an all-seed diet. (It's a big problem.)
Ask Rach for my phone # if you ever have a question or crisis. Of any kind. Even if it's something small or silly. I've had many birds (of 3 species) since I was 15 and I'm the most over-informed bird owner... I have read way too many books about birds. I do wish I had had someone to ask questions of when I first started. Would have made things more fun & saved a lot of heartache.
Sorry if that was too heavy-handed. I try to make myself available to people 'cuz no one who knew anything was there for me... That's the reason I spoke up.
I hope you enjoy them! They look so young and cuddlesome.
aww i miss my boys already!!
ReplyDeleteHeh. You're damn right it's time to settle down. Don't you know you're a menace to society now? :P
ReplyDeleteTres cool that your apartment lets you have pets! I want a cat, but I don't even have my youngest potty trained yet. So we'll see how that goes.
Me again.
ReplyDeleteThe screen with my comment was up, my hubbie saw it & laughed and laughed. I asked why. "What would you think if some stranger you'd never met was giving you worried advice about your pets?"
Ah... (I thought, along with:)
Duh!
I forgot--you're 25, not 15 (like I was), you've heard of bookstores & have an internet connection! I guess I'm a neurotic evangelist for informed bird care.
That aspect of it I can explain better than why I would bother taking a mild interest in someone I've never met. I guess, 'cuz I've spent so many years caring about characters in novels, characters who don't even exist.
I hope it hasn't been an intrusion.
I'll feel especially foolish, if, someday, I discover that despite the photographic evidence (on Rach's blog) to the contrary, that you, also, don't actually exist. :D
I love them! You'll have to keep us posted on your blog how you enjoy being a bird owner. I have been thinking about getting one as well.
ReplyDeleteWordsworth's the green one. Percy, blue. And Heidi, everyone's welcome to comment here, as much as they want. Just so they know I rarely comment back atcha.
ReplyDeleteI should have known from the names that they had once belonged to an english major.
ReplyDeleteI like your new family members and think you did an excellent job naming them! :)
ReplyDeleteIt's not that they belonged to Catherine, it's that she helped pick them out and name them. And that we're co-parenting them. :) It's the new age thing to do.
ReplyDeleteNick, your clarifications were awesome! Not only on "which is which" in regards to the birdlings, but also "what's what", in regards to your openness to comments + tendency not to comment-on-comments. :) Are you sure you're open to people commenting "as much as they want"? (You've seen my comments on R's blog, right?! You must know what you're getting in for.)
ReplyDeleteThe "co-parenting in the New Age" made me wonder to myself--(this might seem random, explaining why I made this connection would take too long, even for me)--if you've read Alan Cumming's Tommy's Tale. My husband bought if for me brand-new (something we never do) because he knows I adore Alan C. I think he's super-sexy, and sweet, and, has a swoon-worthy accent. The book is ALSO sweet and sexy, but, rather raunchy. I saw Alan C. on a talk show, promoting the book, and he cheerfully admitted he'd outright FORBIDDEN his mother from reading it. I could see why, even in chapter one. I barely want people to know I've read it.
But, I heartily recommend it for those of strong stomach, because it is a sublimely compassionate story, about uncovering one's "basic goodness." If you read as much as Rach, though, you have very likely already read it. (That would make us... "so samesies"! I'm kidding. I first encountered this phrase when R used it, it's nothing like what I'd normally say, but I've gotten utterly addicted to it.)
Enjoy, Nick! I do so love getting permission to chat to my heart's content. Thank you. That was as gracious as something Rachel, or Karen, would do.
--Heidi (officially, my final comment on THIS post). :D
I love that, of all your posts, THIS one has received the most comment.
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