Oh ya, Miss Betsy. Well wasn’t that show off out again today. Jo’s getting much better at tricking her back home though. Today Candy got out same time as Miss Betsy so Jo was curious to watch and see what happened there. Miss Betsy being in breeding mode and Candy being another male fischer never know what could happen. Well Jo was sure surprised when Miss Betsy was not interested whatsoever in looking Candy over. Jo was doing a heavy duty clean out there today and I think poor Candy just wanted to get back home to Mango. Didn’t fizz Miss Betsy one bit

Then we should tell you what Mork did today. Jo was doing a clean on their house and Mork figured it was time to go for a fly I guess.  Out he goes.   Jo saw this, but she thought he stayed in the Resting Room. She closed the door right away to the Main house and then went looking for Mork. She looked, and looked, and got down on her knees looking everywhere. She was stumped. A linnie she is used to hiding on her, but not a lovebird. So she leaves to go into the Main house to get something and what does she see way, way up in the rafters but Mork sitting on the top of a  chandaler. The panic started. Jo has to get him home and quick before Louis saw him in the Main house and before he might take a dive and land on the hot stove. Jo never did tell Lou yet, she’s waiting till he reads the Journal. He will blow a cork, you think Jo panics, you never seen Lou yet!

Snippy, thats the green linnie remember, he got to ride around on Jo’s shoulders a lot today as well. I’m tellin you, it’s just not fair, me being stuck in this dang Living Room.

So up in the Nursery things are pretty quiet this week. Lots of babies still but they are mostly half growed up. Those three cinnamons she’s got up there are sure giving Jo a hard time. They are just so friendly and loveable with Jo, but they instigate and get the other babies going crazy. The little cinnamon violet whiteface is just a concern thats for sure. Everyone’s sitting in the window all nice and happy and what does she do but start poking and getting everyone stirred up. They all fly off and she’s still sitting there pretty all by herself. And nosey, in everyones business but her own she is. Then theres those fischers with the red beaks up there, Pig Pen she’s got three pieds and a cobalt, Moombeam well that yellow beauty in the picture is one of her’s. Oh if only Jo could keep more she’d be keeping that pied whiteface and that yellow beauty in a heartbeat. Says she has never seen a couple more adorable. Then Moombeams got a pied as well as cobalts up there. Remember she has the two babies with genetic disorders and they are just so, so adorable. One has already left to go to his new home and the other is leaving this week. Matter of fact, the lady that has her name on one of the baby fischers, Jo is giving him to her so he will have a good home. He sits there and looks up, with his little head tilted sideways, with those big eyes, it is just too cute.

November 10, 2002  Well folks, we only gots time to give you a little of the chatter going on here today.  Rumor has it that Charlotte and Mr. Ray.  made it to our Tiny Rascals  on Friday.   And folks not only did she take Jo's violet cobalt pied beauty of  Jessica and Lucas's, she took Jo's violet cinnamon whiteface of Sundance and Cassidy's.  Poor Jo's up there in the Nursery Room with her saying, Charlotte whatever will Ray say to taking two??  Well Folks, click here on Charlotte's Story and see what Ray, Charlotte and the Flock had to say to Jo  today. 

Here we are again guys. It’s November 13^th and Little Miss What’s My Name am here to talk. What’s my Name, you ask. Well I don’t know yet, as Jo’s waiting for Gail to email her my name when they make up their mind on it. I’m a nice light green linnie of Matt and Mattie and Gail’s gonna be my new Mom.  Her and her daughter came and paid me a visit yesterday. They already have me a little girl there called Sky. That’s me over there being preened and loved right to pieces by those lovebirds. Please, again, don’t anyone think this works with all linnies. I only gets along with them as I was raised with them from the day Jo pulled me for hand feeding. But we sure all get alone just Jim Dandy. Poor Skippy, in the apartment down below here, is none to happy about this. Ya see, Jo had taken me and put me in with her as a . We were the best of buddies right away, but I guess that is not what Jo wanted, so we got separated after only two days. Jo doesn’t want anyone else bonding with me as I’m already gonna have a new . And remember Skippy is a month and a half older than me, so Jo figured it would be cruel to let him become all lovey dovey with me, then take me away from her.

My little Fischer s are some kinda cute huh. Two of these fellows are going concerns as well, but Jo’s been spending extra time with the youngest fellow as he’s really shy. She tucks him under her sweater than takes him round the house with her, talking, cuddling, patting and sooking him. He’s coming round. I hear two of them are spoken for as well. Probably another couple weeks and they’ll be gone. Oh well that’s O.K. cause they’ll be leaving same time as me.

Then how do you like the little poor American cinnamon, all shrivelled up. That baby girl just loves to bath. Every time Jo looks she’s in the water dish. Then ya got that pied baby whiteface up there in the tree all bathed up as well. He/She don’t live here no more. No sir, that’s one that Charlotte got! I hear the little yellow in the tree is leaving this week as well. And how bout that one suspended in air?? I think he just realized his feet are not touching the ground!

Jo’s had Lou busy making us all some new platforms and roosting boxes. Jo likes these platforms as she can put leafy vegies and fruits on them for us, without them falling on the floor. Also gives us a place to rest our feeties at snooze time if we want. Jo won’t give the Happy Huts to our parents, only us babies get them. Guess the adults figure they make wonderful spots for nest building! So they get roosting boxes. If funny to watch them take the paper up there, figuring for sure they can make a nest up there somehow.

Lots and lots of parents down there now I hear going thru their molts. Feathers everywhere. The vacuum gets a run for it’s money this time of year. And eat, oh my gosh, Jo can’t keep the dishes full. She figured she’ really confuse them all the other day and gave them seeds, popcorn, pellets and bath dishes all at once in the morning. That’s like two and three treats all in one day. She didn’t give them vegies that day though. But Jo figured for sure at supper time, their pellet dishes would still be full, that they would have spent the day eating seeds and popcorn. Well some maybe, but she sure had to still fill a lot of pellets dishes again. They all sure love their Roudybush. Except would you believe Queen Betty and Barny. They are the only lovebirds in this Aviary that will not eat Roudybush. Jo was surprised to say the least.  As a little update on them, they are still sitting pretty in the Living Room and Jo's not sure what to think of her.  She and Barney love the extra attention you can be sure, they just soak that right up, but Man or Mr Man does she howler and scream at the top of her lungs at chatter times.  Thinks maybe they can't hear her out in the Resting Room unless she screams.  Jo says she can't help it, her and Barn have to stay in the Living Room for awhile yet.  It has curbed her hormones, (for awhile anyway) and that's what Jo wants.

I hear the Breeding Hut is all painted but still airing out. They have to make GOOD and SURE that ALL the fumes are gone. I heard tomorrow they are going to put a bag of charcoal in there to soak up fumes.

Well don’t know bout you folks, but I can smell pizza and that must be Jo’s supper, cause they sure wouldn’t let me eat it!

Hi everyone.  November 19, 2002 and here we are again.  Christmas is getting closer and closer and we are all wondering here what Jo and Lou’s gonna get all us guys.  Boy’s is that gonna cost them big time!!  If anyone out there’s looking for Happy Huts for their guys, Jo has all kinds here she’ll send you.  She’s sends them all over, right down to Florida in USA.  $7.00 each, which includes shipping and handling will get you one.  I see now she’s made all those babies Santa Claus ones. 

 It’s me here, Cuddles talking.  I’m a little sky blue linnie girl who is going to Jo’s grandson, Jesse,  today. He gave me that name as I would be most content to just sit and cuddle all day long.  Jo says I’m just a little sweetheart.  Jesse has wanted one of us guys for his very own for a long time now. 

 The little green girl sitting over there with the fischer is the girl going to live with Sky in Fredericton when she is ready.  She was raised with 3 fischers and 3 pied lovebirds right from the brooder at 10 days old till tonight.  The fischers still love her (probably cause she’s the same color!) but all of a sudden last night one of the pieds took a dislike for her, so they got separated.  She’s now sharing an apartment with me.  I like her O.K.  Me, I’m kinda the quiet type, not her.  She just wants to run and run and go all day long.  If she had her way, she’d be out with Jo all day long.  Her, she don’t sit still for too long.  Skippy, she’s still here too and just as friendly as can be, but she doesn’t like hands.  If she’s on the floor, she’ll do her step up onto your hand no problem, but if she’s on her drawbridge, she’s much prefer to jump onto your arm, NOT your hand.  Jo does not try and force the issue, as she feels that could just make her worse.  Says everyone has hang ups and that’s hers.  Me and Sky’s friend here, we don’t care.  Long as Jo’s gonna bring us out with her, we’ll do our step up onto her fingers right tout swit!! 

 So I guess you can see from the pictures that yesterday was popcorn day!  Just ain’t nothing like it….we love our popcorn!  Jo thinks those platforms that everyone has now are just great, as she fills them right up with popcorn and it’s not on the floor so quick as when she used to have to put it in dishes. Even though we all get our bowls of veggies every day, she also uses our platforms now for putting our dried fruits and leafy veggies like kale leafs and all those other leaf veggies.  Keeps it off the floor as well as gives them something to play with!  Of course they take the odd bite or two which keeps Jo happy.  The linnies will pick them right up with their feet and eat them.  Jo watches the lovebirds HOLD it down with one foot to keep it in place and then munch. 

 Jo’s Breeding Hut still has not aired out enough to put anyone back there yet and who goes to nest this past week but Sundance and Cassidy again!  Jo says why them, it’s definitely NOT their turn.  The others can wait, why can’t they?  Anyways Jo’s been watching Cassidy.  He’s such a good little helper.  Sundance shreds the paper into nice long thin strips and then Cassidy goes, takes them, and tucks them nice and neat into his little rump and carries into the nest for her.  Whoever says males don’t help out the wives??  Then ya got Flo there sitting on a whooping SEVEN eggs.  We’ll see how many hatch out of them.   

 Jo’s going to call Marlene again today on Queen Betty and see if she found out anything for her yet.  Jo caught them in action yesterday and put a stop to it in a big hurry.  Jo’s at her wits end with her.  Nothing, just absolutely nothing is going to stop that one.  She’s trying to carry paper up to her Roosting Box, course it just all falls out the bottom.  She’s not swelling up yet, Jo is just hoping nothing has happened when she hasn’t’ been looking!  But that one is one smart cookie.  Her and Barney are in a huge flight that both side doors open right up.  The knob to turn to open the side doors are halfway down the side walls.  Well Queen Betty knows exactly where those knobs are, and when she sees you come near her home, she’s right at that spot thinking, just maybe she’s gonna get out!  Fat chance of that happening in the Living Room with the wood stove going full blast!!  Whenever Jo wants to put dishes in, she has to trick her into going down to the other side as she’s trying every trick in the book to get out!  Usually Jo will get Lou to keep her busy while she does the changing of dishes. 

 See the picture next door here of the little yellow pied cinnamon.  That’s Queen Betty’s last cutie.  Remember Jo gave her a bunch of dud eggs to sit on and this little girl is the only one hatched.  Course that means she is just going to be one little spoiled rotten little lovebird growing up all by herself and no one to bond with but JoJo.  Jo is just mystified by her feathering so far, as Betty has produced many, many, many mutations so far, but this little mystery is a first.    So as you see this little one is not a month old and she’s at it again that Betty!!  Jo’s always saying the same thing, she has one pair of linnies like this Mattie and Matt and one pair of lovebirds, if she had more she’d go nuts!!  Does not matter what she does.  Changes cages, changes toys,  puts them to bed with the natural light and this time of year here, that’s at 5 o’clock, only gets them up with the natural light at around 7 a.m., nothing changes the mind of those two pairs!!  Course the Resting Room is all windows on three walls so they get a lot of natural light, but during the day, they need this.    Even in the Living Room, Betty and Barney get covered at 6 p.m. and Jo and Lou mostly vacate the Living Room so they will have piece and quiet, don’t matter!!

 Jo’s hopin to get the Breeding Hut back together soon as she wants to put about five of those pairs of linnies to nest.  Their all ready, just waiting for her.   Jo loves those linnie babies!    She’s hopin Opal and Archie have a little boy in their clutch this time as they are going to keep him to pair up and hopefully produce some creaminos down the line.  Then she’s got Sunset and Buster, the normal and cobalt masked that she wants to put to nest as Jo finds the normal masked just so beautiful!  Mork and Mindy and Binge and Alley, the violet and slate masked,  have to wait till the new year to go to nest, even though Binge and Alley have a Roosting Box and they take  so much paper into that Roosting Box daily, that falls down thru,   it looks like a mountain under them!   Sunset and Buster spend most of their time sitting on TOP of their Roosting Box.  Then ya got Jessica and Lucas who spend most of their time, chewing the backside off their Roosting Box!    Well I should say Lucas sits inside, while Jessica chews the backside off! 

 Jo also wanted me to say Thanks to you’s all for signing her Guest Book.  Her and Lou just love reading all the comments and really appreciate them. 

 Now Jo has to take me, of course, and says she’s going out to give all the linnies their bath.  Which means spraying them all.  Those guys, they would stay hanging upside down forever if Jo would continue spraying them.  They are just dripping in water, but still they are hanging there, glued to the sides of their homes, waiting for more.  Nana and Nigel, the slate couple, one of them for some reason is not so fond of this spraying.  They come running to get sprayed, but soon as they feel the water they run back.  Then they venture for a bit more and run back.  They continue like this for as long as Jo sprays.  Jo’s not so sure if it’s Nana or Nigel that’s not so keen on spraying as they both look so alike.  One things for sure, one of them just love it, the other is kinda shy of it.  Those two are pretty quiet anyways.  Jo says they just sit there like lumps on logs.  She’s gonna do some rearranging later this week and see if maybe they might like a different location better.   Then you got Foxy, the only lovebird out of all them here, that when he sees that spray bottle, he comes a running.  Jo really wishes she had a movie camera to capture him in action. He is a silver fellow and just sits there and quivers and shakes and fluffs all up, loving every single minute of his soaking!  Jo says theres no words to describe him, he is just too cute.   So all the lovebirds, including Flo and Foxy got bath dishes, but Foxy still wants his spray. 

Then Jo has to get Jesse’s new home all ready for his Cuddles so we had better close this Journal for today and get it ready for him.

Hi  Folks, it's November 28, 2002 today and that means Christmas is not far off.  Jo had a lady come today from Dartmouth, N.S. and purchase her Christmas present from her boyfriend.  Bet ya can't guess what.  O.K. we'll tell you.  Little Mr. TRA48, a really beautiful pied baby of Pig Pen and Jesse's. 

Oh by the way, this is Sassy Face talking  by the way.  I is the little cinnamon slate pied you see in the picture next door of Betty's.  I'm spoiled rotten as I have a home all by myself and of course have Jo wrapped tight as can be around my little toes.  Would you like to hear how I come by the title of Sassy Face.  Jo had a lady and her sweet 4 year old daughter come down last week from Saint John area to pick out a lovebird for a family christmas present.  Well this little girl was just taken right away with me (I kept trying to nibble her fingies) Dosen't she start calling me Sassy Face.  Jo thought it was just so cute how she just came right out with "Your a little Sassy Face", that she dubbed me with the name.  Really I gotta tell you, it's better than Dimples which is what she was calling me!

But Jo says I'm spoiled, I can't hold a candle to her as she sits with her nice new laptop in her lap.  HER christmas present she says!  That's her excuse for the Journal being late this week.  She still does not have the photo  software set up on it yet that she uses to do our website.   Just forwarning you all it may be a couple days or so before you see some nice new pictures of us.  And boys am I cute! Nothing bashful about me!

So Jo told me to make sure I tell you that she also has to pull her socks up and get our Babies Page updated.  We now have new green linnie babies and Flo and Foxy's babies are hatching as well this week.  The linnies are anywheres from 1 to 4 days old and there are four of them, so what does that tell you.  Almost one a day for young Mattie and Matt.  Then she's got Sundance and Cassidy laying. Those two are just too funny.  Jo was telling me today that she was down there watching them and laughing.  Sundance shreds the paper and then Cassidy plays tug of war with her, trying to get the paper to tuck into his own rump!!  Don't think he realizes he's the Dad and gets to sit back ... "for now". 

Jo soaked some small willow twigs and branches for Sunset and Buster.  She tied them to the side of their home and put a nesting box up for them.  Now she sits back to see what they will do.  She's saying this could be interesting, as Sunset is supposed to be a female and Buster a male.  The interesting part is that Sunset is feeding Buster and it should be the other way round.