I took a few photos of Micah outside on our new trellis that Matthew built for the kiwi vines.









(she LOVES sitting on the trellis when the sun is out, like it was yesterday. She also loves chewing off bits of the trellis.)

I also took a photo of Micah with her polly dolly for halation. This is basically just a mass of strips of fabric interspersed with bits of wood on thick strings. Recently, she's begun to chew the wood up, which thrills me because it's the first time since she's come here that she's shown interest in REALLY chewing on things (other than proffered toilet paper tubes and the like), especially things made of wood, like her perches, which she's also begun chewing on. I'm happy because this is what happy, healthy, adjusted and normal birds like her are SUPPOSED to want to do. I was mildly worried before because she just wasn't showing interest, but I feel better now.




I snapped a pic of Micah's cage just for the heck of it. I should take a photo of the lay of the land in the livingroom, but I'd have to do that with a real camera, when the light isn't so harsh.



Inside the cage you can see the polly dolly in the upper left, then on the far right is the bell she rings for service, and in the middle is her new favorite toy, a big preening toy made up of a bunch of strings. She loves this thing. Threaded in the cage bars are are straw-like chewy things called "Shredders" that she only sometimes chews, oh well. She seemed to like it in the store, but she was pretty excited to be in the store at the time so anything was fair chew game, I guess. She likes it when *I* play with a bit of the stuff, she gets very excited when I play with her toys.


This week we've been working on having some "cage days", as in, days where Matthew does not spoil her rotten by taking her upstairs with him into the office while he works. Every other day is "cage day" where she hangs out in her cage and plays with her toys and we interact with her while she's in there while we do other things, till we can go for a walk or whatnot. Lately I've been trying to make certain I get some kind of walking in, and if I haven't done it during the course of my workday or whatnot, Micah and I go around the block a couple of times. She's more well behaved when she isn't expecting to be with Matthew 100% of the time. She still gets pretty excitable when she knows he's around but she's not actually ON HIS PERSON or right next to him in the office looking out the window, but I think she's doing a lot better.

I just got tired of having her in her cage while I was working, being all agitated because she wasn't with Matthew. She wasn't really screaming too much, but she would pace in her cage, flap her wings a lot, make agitated noises and say, "Ok" a lot. I can't help but feel bad when she obviously wants something soooo bad. She's a lot better about it now so I don't have to be so tortured or feel like the "bad guy" all the time.

Newest thing though, for us, is I put on a sweater and let her sit on me between my shirt and my sweater. She Adores that with a capital A. Last night we ate dinner this way. Rather, I ate dinner and she hung out in my sweater. After I was done, she came out of my sweater, and gave me a million kisses. This was suspicious (she'll give me a few kisses at a time, but not like THIS), so I wiped my lips off. Less kisses. She was totally trying to lick the remains of dinner off my lips. What a stinker.

She is out with Matthew now while he runs an errand and I better get my butt into the shower for my appointment. Speaking of shower, Matthew caught her taking a bath on tape, so I'll have to upload that.

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