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I Left My Heart in a Vat of Superglue

Posted in Events, Houston Parrot Festival, essays and articles, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on April 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »

This is a feather pillow. What’s different about this from your usual feather pillows is that this pillow has feathers on the outside. I made this pillow from donated molted feathers from my Bird Friends all over the country and Canada.  This pillow will be winging its way to the Folks at Phoenix Landing for [...]

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My “Rock Star Moment” Meltdown

Posted in Bird Talk Magazine, Events, Houston Parrot Festival, Patricia Sund, People in Aviculture, essays and articles, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 26, 2010 | 12 Comments »

(Well, I thought it was a great shot…) The Houston Parrot Festival: What an amazing Festival! A great speaker line up, combined with an incredible array of products from some cutting edge vendors offering the best products made this year’s festival a joy. And it was terrific, once I got there. And I’ll be posting [...]

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Putting the “Fun” in Dysfunctional!

Posted in Events, Houston Parrot Festival, Patricia Sund, essays and articles, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 11, 2010 | 5 Comments »

I am many things, but “Parrot Expert” I’m not. I’m a Flight Attendant, a Writer, a human companion to two parrots and foster family to another. I write, I fly, I clean up parrot crap and rake up toy pieces left in the wake of my African Grey, Parker. If Parker was a human being, [...]

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“A Toy Story”: The Story Behind “Ring Around the Rainbow”

Posted in Houston Parrot Festival, Patricia Sund, People in Aviculture, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 6, 2010 | 16 Comments »

One day as I idly sat and watched Parker industriously chewing on the shoelace aglet of my sneaker, I thought, “You know, somebody ought to make a toy with a pant load of shoelaces on it!”  And as I thought about it, I wondered if it was possible to get somebody to put aglets all [...]

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I Don’t Have Time For New Year’s Resolutions!

Posted in Memo to Parker and Pepper, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 29, 2009 | 6 Comments »

You might understand I have a lot going on. I fly about 25 hours of overtime a month. Obviously, I have parrots, (Which feels like another full time job. And if you’re doing it right, it is.) and my dog Mattie which is the least of my problems. I write for BIRD TALK Magazine, I [...]

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Coming Up For Air

Posted in Patricia Sund, People in Aviculture, essays and articles, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 6, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Mattie and me at the Petco Festival I’m back. Back to the blog once again! My apologies for having left it untouched for so long, but I had a lot of catching up to do. As you might recall, I spent three weeks working at the Cincinnati Zoo. (Here is their Kookaburra): While I was [...]

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Parrot Festival…It’s Not Just Lectures You Know…

Posted in Events, Houston Parrot Festival, People in Aviculture, essays and articles, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on January 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Free Flight trainer Chris Biro Shaking his tail feathers for donations…I’m helping. No, the Houston Parrot Festival isn’t all serious lectures and training sessions.  Actually, we have a blast. I recommend attending the Festival if you have the time. There are vendors with all of the latest products and there are a few highly-esteemed Vets [...]

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The Parrot Festival: A Scarf-a-Palooza

Posted in Events, Houston Parrot Festival, People in Aviculture, essays and articles, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I just got back from the Houston Parrot Festival put on by the NPRPF, which is the “National Parrot Rescue and Preservation Foundation”; a mouthful in and of itself. I got back on Monday and I’m still beat. It’s a high-energy, fun get-together for Parrot Freaks all over the Country and this is how the [...]

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