While there are millions of people who care for birds worldwide, the bird world is actually a fairly small community in the United States. And with the magnification and amplification abilities of the internet, the proliferation of social media, and search engines making good information within the reach of a single click, more and more [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Patricia Sund’
Shake Hands With Your Uncle Max
Posted in essays and articles, People in Aviculture, Posts About the "Chop" Concept, Writing, tagged "Chop" Concept, bird event, Bird Talk Magazine, blogging about parrots, Chop for Parrots, companion parrots, Dr. Susan Orosz, Jessica Pineda, leather elves, Lisa Bono, Parrot Blog, Parrot Blogs, Parrot Nation, parrots of the world, Patricia Sund, picture element, preparing food for birds on January 25, 2012 | 2 Comments »
An Interesting Conversation With a Complete Stranger
Posted in essays and articles, Saving Money-Thrifty Habits, Writing, tagged AT&T, Odd Todd, Parrot Blog, Parrot Blogs, Parrot Nation, Patricia Sund, Sales calls from AT&T, Saving money by bundling on December 21, 2011 | 9 Comments »
I was doing my usual day off shenanigans. You know; laundry, washing the floor, replacing the substrate papers in the Greys’ cages, messing around with throwing out paperwork and trying to make sense of what was under the kitchen sink when the phone rang. Always eager for a chance to sit down, (although when I [...]
Can It Get Any Stickier?
Posted in Houston Parrot Festival, tagged Bird Blogs, feather pillows, Feathers, Parrot Blog, Parrot Blogs, Parrot Nation, Patricia Sund, pillows made from feathers on December 6, 2011 | 7 Comments »
As you can see, I’ve been a little busy. I do this every year, busily chasing feathers around my living room, gluing my fingers together and hoping to produce a few items for the Houston Parrot Festival. This scarf, made of Cockatoo and Guinea fowl feathers was completed about an hour ago. It’s taken two [...]
Black Friday Blues
Posted in Events, Reviews, Writing, tagged Black Friday, Blogs about Black Friday, Parrot Blog, Parrot Nation, Patricia Sund on November 25, 2011 | 21 Comments »
I got dragged into a Wal Mart once and because I refuse to spend money there, I tried this hat on and took photos of pink stuff. I HATE pink stuff. I’m not a big shopper. I dislike it because I’m not a browser. I don’t like going to stores just to see what they [...]
Life With Parrots: Your Own Reality Show?
Posted in Contests, Events, tagged blogging about parrots, Cincinnati Zoo, Parrot Blog, Parrot Blogs, Patricia Sund, Reality Show Contest on November 20, 2011 | 4 Comments »
If you look at reality shows these days, it’s enough to make you scream. The “Housewives” franchise, “Big Brother,” which I’ve never seen, “The Rachel Zoe Project,” which I saw five minutes of, “The Bachelor,” “The Bachelorette,” “Fear Factor,” are all reality shows I had absolutely no interest in. They all come off as highly [...]
Gourmet Taste? Not Always…
Posted in essays and articles, Writing, tagged comfort food, cravings, food I have to have, Parrot Nation, Patricia Sund on October 19, 2011 | 6 Comments »
My Greek Salad To-Go If you’ve seen my Facebook wall, or hung around here for any length of time, you might have figured out that I love good food. Because of this predilection, I essentially was forced to learn to cook fairly well at a fairly early age. Going out to restaurants is expensive and [...]
Karaoke Parker
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bird Blogs, blogging about parrots, enrichment, Parrot Blog, Parrot Blogs, Parrot Nation, Patricia Sund on October 17, 2011 | 7 Comments »
When I was a kid, one of the things I wanted to be was a cartoonist. This, along with wanting to be an actress, dancer, broadway performer, television commercial director, lawyer and writer. (My father always said to me, “Kid, with your mouth, you ought to become an attorney.”) Well, I got a few of [...]






Spam, Spam, Spam
Posted in essays and articles, Patricia Sund, Writing, tagged Askimet, Bird Blogs, inane comments, Parrot Blog, Parrot Nation, Patricia Sund, spam comments on blogs, spam on blogs, Wordpress on January 27, 2012 | 4 Comments »
See image source here: Island Crisis One of the things you must deal with when you have a blog is Spam. In my case it’s pretty clear cut. Word Press, the platform on which I produce my blog has this handy little program named Askimet that filters out what it believes are crap comments that [...]
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