Budgie Rescue Society

On the way between Rosa's daddy's house and Petsmart, we stopped for gas at a Conoco station on Kingshighway. Tammie volunteered to pump the gas, and while she was out, the gas station attendant called her attention to a bird on the parking lot. It was a blue parakeet, sitting and shivering on the tarmac. Tammie approached it slowly on hands and knees, and eventually captured it. She talked to the attendant, and he agreed to keep the bird. As we have a house-over-ful of cats, it seemed a bad idea to bring the bird home with us. So we continued on our trip to Petsmart and bought a parakeet starter kit for Gas Station Man along with all our purchases for our own house (cat food, cat litter, dog tie-outs, etc etc).

He seemed delighted when we came back with all that stuff for him, and hopefully the bird will do well with him.

(no subject)

I just can't get my head round it. Ray throws a fit if I let Rosa have a temporary tattoo--and he has rubbed her back raw trying to get them off--but on the other hand he gives her makeup!

He says tattoos--even temporary ones--aren't "ladylike". But apparently in his mind makeup on a five-year-old is. To me it's oversexualization of a child, or at the very least introducing conventional 'femininity' way too early. (Which would be "ever".)

As an aside, apparently I can spell feminininity but I don't seem to know when to stop.