Things to Do

It has been a little quiet at night here in the library.  Though we enjoy reading we are finding that we need more things to do.  We have a lot of energy to release so Kyp and I have been doing bird races.  That's right at night we've been escaping our cage like always and we have been reading but we've also been flying around the library to stretch our wings.  We have been trying to see who can do the whole building the fastest but we've been getting distracted.  Have you noticed how many signs there are for things to at the library - its quite amazing.  
One of the things we've noticed is that the kids are having a reading challenge.  We're working on getting Miss Renee to let us participate.  So far she says that the challenge is for kids but she'll think about letting us join.  Though we may decide to hold a challenge ourselves.  We'll see what happens - just keep your eyes peeled for those signs.

Let's play catch up - Holiday season

Percy got Thanksgiving and I get Christmas.  Now there was a lot of excitement about this Holiday plus someone explained to us about Hanakkuh as well.  Both sound pretty special.  We understand about the dreidal, the menorah and the tree - but we're a little confused by the pickle. Hopefully someone will explain it to us.  Anyway we had our friend Ricky with us for the Holiday and it was fun to share stories.  The Holiday season were we come from is during the summer months so its quite different.  The sun is shining, its gets really warm so that sometimes we'd go to the beach.  Ricky says here it snows and gets cold and he mostly sleeps.  But though we had different customs it was fun to share. 


Oh I do have to tell you - we got a present for the Holiday.  It's a paper tree.  We're not really sure what to do with it.  Miss Renee says the idea is for us to play with it by pulling the paper branches.  I think she's a little crazy.  Percy and I haven't touched it yet and honestly I'm not to sure about it.  Anyway, I can't think of anything else to write so I'll sign off.


Percy and I will try to be better about writing on a more constant basis.  But you know being a sneaky bird isn't always easy.

Let's play catch up - Thanksgiving

Okay so the last post was Halloween - then cam something called Thanksgiving.  We've heard a lot about something called Turkey.  And we have discovered that a turkey is a large bird.  It made us nervous for a while there to discover that there was a holiday about eating bird.  But Miss Renee explained to us that Thanksgiving is not about turkey but about family.  She explained that most people but not all ate turkey - but you can eat other things as well.  She also said that no one ate finches for Thanksgiving except for maybe a cat.  We were rather relieved - though not really happy about the cat idea.  But we understand that family is very important.  Back home in Australia we live in huge flocks of families.  We're a very social bird and we don't like to live by ourselves.  That's also why Kyp and I live together - even though we occasionally fight we would be terribly lonely without each other. We did get a treat on Thanksgiving - eggs.  Miss Renee made them special for us.  We love scrambled eggs.  I know it seems weird that we're birds and we're eating eggs buts it is quite normal.  If we had families we would clean our nests by eating the egg goo after the babies were hatched so its not really that different.  We get them mixed with a little seed and that makes it delicious.  You should try it sometime - maybe without the seed unless you want to try it that way.