I'm so embarrased that it's been 3 months since my last post! How
did that happen? Almost every weekend I tell myself I'm going to write a
great post, and then I run out of time or simply don't feel like doing
it. Honestly I think part of it is feeling this pressure to produce
something substantive, high quality, and entertaining. Well, in order
to get myself posting again, I've been telling myself that I just need
to write short entries about anything whatsoever that comes to mind.
So, since I was thinking about it, and since I happened to be online
(looking up the equivalent of dry to canned beans), here goes:
I saw a parrot today.
Yep,
that's it. Actually, I saw two! I had heard mention of the occasional
parrot sighting around here (I think they're African Grey Parrots), but
wasn't sure I really bought it, or at least I assumed I'd never see
them. Well, this morning, there was some sort of pounding/tapping
outside my apartment. I ignored it for a while, since those types of
unidentified noises are fairly common around here. But it continued, so
I went in search of noise, partially out of curiosity and partially out
of concern that my cat may be destroying something in my apartment. I
found my cat sitting on my guest room window sill, staring intently up
and to the side. I followed her gaze and saw that there was some sort
of bird sitting on the gutter of the roof overhang above my window.
This is also a very normal occurrence, but for some reason I kept
looking, and then I realized that I was looking at the face of a parrot
leaning over the side of the gutter! The rear end that was sticking out
about a foot away obviously could not have come from the same bird, so I
realized that there were two. Eventually both stuck their faces out
over the edge, providing me with a very nice (albeit leaning over,
angled, obstructed by screen and bars) view of two parrot heads! It was
so neat! I would have taken a picture if I thought there was any way
that that was possible. I watched for a little bit while my cat
continued her "I can take them!" stance, then went back to getting ready
for work. The end.
