Happy Harvest Blog
I feel like some aloe today
Says Cheeks. She took a whole arm off of this plant (right), and a couple of beak shaped bites out of another arm. Then she took the tip off another plant. She really ate quite a lot of it, despite the bits she left behind. Apparently, today she just wanted some aloe. It’s good for her. No one else is eating it (I’ve tried, I find it bitter). This is the box she stands on, to eat, and just to hang out for a lot of the day.
Chill and chilly
Melting ice for water. It’s so pretty. It looks like thick glass. It’s a goldfinch convention. They are usually here with the grosbeaks, but the grosbeaks are late today and the goldfinches have the place to themselves, for a bit. Cheeks is having a good day. It’s warm in a sunbeam on a lap and her head is high. She’s wearing a festive holiday scarf. She can see herself (and me) in the mirror of my computer screen, which is hilarious. Do the think the scarf is “me”?
Cheeks is a cutie
Her foot is still hot and swollen and she's not keen on using it, so I hope she recovers.She's dozing after her meal. Now she asks to go back into her box when she's done eating and preening. She knows the routine. Birds' lids close upwards. There's the fattest squirrel: We mock this squirrel because he's so fat, his little hands don't meet in the middle over his belly. He's doing very well. He's thriving on sunflower seeds, or something. He recently made an appearance, after a long time seeing no squirrels.
Cheeks eats
I set her on her Tupperware with a view, and she stood there looking like she's one-legged. She demolished her food - chicken food and long grain brown rice- a big hit. She even sampled the potted plant mix. She ate so much rice she passed over her seeds. Outside, the grosbeaks are congregating in the snow. She made an unholy mess of the windowsill, but I was just so happy she was eating. Nothing that won't clean up in seconds.
Cheeks is thinking out of the box.
Cheeks is making a comeback. I got her antibiotics and baby aspirin last week and started the daily regime of shoving them down her beak.I was hoping I wouldn't have to force feed her, so I tried everything to entice her to eat on her own, hoping her appetite would improve when the infection in her foot was controlled - kale, spinach, quinoa, beef fat, oatmeal, rice, coconut oil, raw egg, cooked almonds, cheese, cream - all things a well chicken would go crazy over.
Instagram.
I may not make a blog post every day, but at least I Insta.
Bite size.
