Naughty cider can ;)

If you look closely you can see the legs and various body parts sticking out suggestively among the flowers. Even a (gasp!) bare bottom near the top. I thought it was a cool can. I would definitely buy this cider based on packaging alone.

Not as worried :)

I am now a much less worried birdie mommy :). I was at the critter store yesterday and my little baby that I was worried about was finally up on the perches with the others! I was so happy :). And the discoloration on her beak was gone too. So now I won't have to worry about someone not buying her because she is not "perfect". All in all an excellent trip to the critter store :).

Efficient and ingenuous horniness

My zebra finches are sex machines. There is no denying it. I took their nest away so they would not have more babies this year. They laid eggs in the food cup. I changed the food cup. They laid eggs in the at that time dry bird bath. I filled it with water.They laid eggs on the floor. Well I can't take the floor away. Luckily none of the eggs were fertile. But then the sneaky horny little bastards started using the stocks from the millet I give them and somehow managed to build a damn nest! And now I know I should remove it but they worked so hard I would feel like a total shit :(. And you see in the picture how well built it is. It would be like tearing down the birdie equivalent of the Taj Mahal!

Still being a birdie mom

I went to the critter store yet again to check on my babies. They seemed ok. They have another white zebra baby with them now. The one little girl was still on the ground so I'm still worried about her. But maybe she flies around when I am not there? There was also a baby Chinese dove in the cage with them. You see it to the far right of the picture. So cute :)

I'm not sure I understand...

They want me to open the packages?
I think that this particular section of store has a problem with people opening the packages. Just maybe. I could be wrong of course.
For the non Swedes it basically says "Don't open the packages!" Many many many times.

A lamp few could pull off

But I think I am definitely one of them :). Doesn't this just scream Melinda with its cheesiness and white trash elegance? See, most people can't handle a lamp like this because they can't appreciate the irony. So sad really.

More critter store visits

I went to the critter store again to check on my babies. I am still worried about the one in the bowl in this picture. Every time I have been there she is on the ground and not flying around. Am thinking about bringing her home again till she is stronger but at the same time I don't want to separate her from her siblings. I see how she is doing next time...

My new project

Here is a picture of my new project. I bought some really cheap end tables and I am painting them silver. They were a reddish teak color to begin with. But I really love the shape of 50's furniture. Even though I really hate the color. Dark wood. Blek. Silver is much better :). The one in front is after one coat of paint. The one in the background is after three coats. I think three was enough. Then I need to put some kind of sealer on it. Or I might play with mosaic tile again. Not sure yet :).

Soul mate lunches

Erika and I really are soul mates. We brought the exact same lunch to work a few days ago. Total soul mates :). 

Attack of the 80's!!!!

Run for your lives! The body suits are back! And faded flower denim! I posted not so long ago about seeing a body suit. I thought it was a fluke. But it wasn't. Now they are in more than one store. And this store looked like a Madonna video from when I was like ten had thrown up all over it. Jeez.

Traffic jam anyone?

Last weekend Kristen and I went to Nova for fika and window shopping. We noticed all the cars going in to the mall but we figured after two hours inside there would be no more line of cars. Boy were we wrong!!! After two hours inside out we came and holy crap. So we got in the car and took a place in line like good Swedes. But when we still hadn't moved after 45 minutes we started to get a bit restless and pissy. That was when we noticed a couple cars going towards the employee parking lot. Kristen checked it out while I guarded our place in line. We ended up breaking a few laws and escaping by jumping a curb and driving on a bike path or two. Oops :).  But I read later that some people sat there for three hours! So worth breaking the law a tiny bit.

Follow up critter store visit

The day after I left my babies at the pet store I stopped by on my way to work. Three of my pippisar were up on the perches :). Proud birdie mommy moment! One was still on the ground but I think soon she will make it up there as well :). Plus there was a bit of a party going on there on the ground. Three long tailed grass finches were there having a snack and checking out the new white birdie. I think my next birdie pair will be long tailed grass finches. They are pretty and they sing really beautifully too.

Pippisar at the pet store

Here are my little babies at the pet store. They all flew out ok but not all of them could make it up to the perches. One did make it and I had a proud birdie mommy moment :). The other three even looked like they wanted to, but were waiting for a more opportune moment :). But just before I left all the babies were in a huddle on the ground and then I felt like a bad birdie mommy for abandoning them :(.

Bye bye pippisar :(

Well it was time to take the baby birds to the pet store so that they get new homes. It took 15 minutes to catch them all and when they were all in the transport cage they huddled in a group. I felt so bad and evil :(. I wish I could have kept them all but I would have had to buy a separate cage for each one. Birds will boinky boinky with sisters and brothers and parents if they are in the same cage. Incest not good. So I had to give them up :(.

Sekhmet likes orchids too!

Sekhmet has always liked sniffing flowers. I tease her that she is just like Ferdinand in the Donald Duck Christmas Special we have here in Sweden every year. Ferdinand the bull doesn't want to bull fight. He just wants to sit under his tree and "Luktar på blommorna". Both Ferdinand and Sekhmet are a bit lazy couch potatoes :). Sekhmet learned it from mommy :).