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Quiet
This hasn't been a great year for pets. Whirr died this morning.
Whirr was a budgie, and he used to have a cage-mate, Wobble. He was actually fairly old for a budgie, so this wasn't unexpected. And he'd been acting like he didn't feel great, so I'd tried to make him more comfortable - moved some of his toys to the bottom of the cage, bought more millet sprays since he really liked those, kept the room a little warmer than usual. I don't think I'll be getting more birds, though. With the cats, you can't allow them to fly freely, and it seems a shame to make a bird spend all its life in a cage, even a big cage.
So I'll be cleaning that cage up and seeing if anyone local wants to buy it.
In happier news we tried Amazon's Prime Pantry and the box showed up yesterday. It's pretty cool, except that there's a lot less that qualifies for Pantry than you'd think. For example, I drink Community Coffee and I prefer the breakfast blend or medium roast. Pantry only has dark roast in ground coffee, and everything else is k-cups. I don't guess I need to tell you all that I hate k-cups. But I did get my Irish Breakfast tea at less than Publix charges, and we found several Kikoman sauces, like the "light soy sauce" often called for in Japanese recipes, a cold noodle sauce, and of course they have a plethora of other soy sauces available. Even adding toilet paper I was only able to get our box to 23% full so I think this is not going to be a frequent occurrence. Cat food would fill it up, but do I really want to mail order a 20-something pound bag of cat chow? Anyway, the cats also like the box a lot, Nanna even napped in it this morning.
It'll be weird adjusting to the quiet now, until the windows are open again. We'd had birds for something like five years, so you really get used to hearing them twitter and peep. (And scream like idiots for no apparent reason)
Whirr was a budgie, and he used to have a cage-mate, Wobble. He was actually fairly old for a budgie, so this wasn't unexpected. And he'd been acting like he didn't feel great, so I'd tried to make him more comfortable - moved some of his toys to the bottom of the cage, bought more millet sprays since he really liked those, kept the room a little warmer than usual. I don't think I'll be getting more birds, though. With the cats, you can't allow them to fly freely, and it seems a shame to make a bird spend all its life in a cage, even a big cage.
So I'll be cleaning that cage up and seeing if anyone local wants to buy it.
In happier news we tried Amazon's Prime Pantry and the box showed up yesterday. It's pretty cool, except that there's a lot less that qualifies for Pantry than you'd think. For example, I drink Community Coffee and I prefer the breakfast blend or medium roast. Pantry only has dark roast in ground coffee, and everything else is k-cups. I don't guess I need to tell you all that I hate k-cups. But I did get my Irish Breakfast tea at less than Publix charges, and we found several Kikoman sauces, like the "light soy sauce" often called for in Japanese recipes, a cold noodle sauce, and of course they have a plethora of other soy sauces available. Even adding toilet paper I was only able to get our box to 23% full so I think this is not going to be a frequent occurrence. Cat food would fill it up, but do I really want to mail order a 20-something pound bag of cat chow? Anyway, the cats also like the box a lot, Nanna even napped in it this morning.
It'll be weird adjusting to the quiet now, until the windows are open again. We'd had birds for something like five years, so you really get used to hearing them twitter and peep. (And scream like idiots for no apparent reason)