Hey ya'll! Since July 4th was Cleo's birthday, I just thought I'd drop in and let you folks know how we are doing. I've been very busy as I now own and run a camping forum, much like this one. (But this one is prettier. LOL)
It's hard, labor of love I guess, but I enjoy it. Have brought a lot of camping people together.
This crazy Cleo is doing just great. I think we have overcome some major problems with hormones. The days seem to have limited themselves in hours and she is more even keel. She's still doing her waving tricks and putting change in the cup. She'll now give me 4 and that's fun. She spends her days outside in the shade in her outside Macaw cage and that works well for her. She comes in late in the day and spends time with us then off to bed. She'll actually go to my son some now. I had to get her clipped again recently as she was becoming more aggressive. If you can recall the first clipping it was an event. This one didn't go so bad. She's easily transported now in her carrier and steps up most of the time. Funny: the girl at the vet said she was much better than last year when she was clipped. I said, "you worked here last year?" She said no, but I've heard the stories about her.
She still isn't talking much but she is starting to say Hiii on cue now. And it's funny she actually has adapted her original Hiiiii that had a long "northern" accent to "haaaayyyy" which sounds more like us.
I take her to my mom and dads and she enjoys that, they like her too, but they are scared to death of her. I actually took her to a church gathering and she absolutely showed out. Did all of her tricks and even crowed like a chicken. The kids loved her. She seemed much more at ease with the kids than I would have expected. It was her first outing witha lot of kids. I let them feed her some treats and she did her tricks for them. No petting.
They mostly just wanna look at her. Although one redneck tried to get his little girl to go up and "pat hur on tha heeaaad". I said I don't think you want any bloodshed at the church function, so I wouldn't recommend that just yet buddy.
I'm spending time with changing her from my arm to my son's. I think that transition is helping her become more comfortable. And letting HIM take her into neutral areas where she is more dependant on him. He's very good with her for his 11 years. I'm proud of him. My wife and daughter just wanna look at her and tell her hiiiii. no touchy...
So, that's about the size of it for us. I'm very happy with the crazy ole bird. She was 5 on the 4th. I'm not looking forward to breeding season again. It was aweful....

I hope all of you are doing well and your birds are prospering. I hope the fourth gave you lots of burgers and fries and fireworks. I hope that when you nest down tonite, your birds are happy and healthy and wise.

I apologize for extended absences, but I do value this board and ALL of the members and their birds a lot.

OUR best to ALL of you
Mark and Cleo.......

Thanks for checking in. We would love to see recent pics of Cleo.

Hi Mark, so nice to read the update on Cleo. Sounds like she's doing great. How cool that your Birthdays are so close to together! We have a thread here for you with Birthday wishes; http://www.parrotchatter.com/f20/hap...ark-10877.html

Sounds like she did pretty good during the Spring season with all that you were able to do! We had a pretty good season here too, but I'm with you; glad it's over!!

How cool that you started a camping forum. My Husband and I were just talking on Sunday about our plans to get a camper and do a little traveling. I would like us all to go to Lake George. We're guesstimating we'll be ready to do that in 4 years. Of course we'll be getting something that can accommodate Kady & Kita. So they'll be lots to learn when it comes time to purchase.

Thanks everyone. I didn't know there was a bday thread. Wow..thanks again.
I have some pix of her with those kids, but I don't have permission from the kids parents to post them, so I better not. They're good ones tho. I'll as if I can.
Karen, one of the things we liked about this camper is the bar area for her a smaller cage to sit on. We also have bunks. So, we'll take her camping with us at some point. I think she likes to travel.
We have to alternate between Dood, her, and now Daisy the Jack Russel to take with us. It would just be too chaotic with all three.
Let me know if you want some camper information. Always there for that.
Mark

Yahoo!!!! Good to see ya!

Real nice to hear from you and what a great update! Glad things are going well for you all!

Hello there! Sounds like you all are busy and happy! That's great! I loved this part you wrote - " I hope that when you nest down tonite, your birds are happy and healthy and wise. " Cute! Thanks! Same to you and yours!

Sounds like you are extremely busy, but thanks for adorable Cleo's update and a late birthday wish to her from here. Hope she got an extra special toy on her special day. That is so cool that Cleo goes camping with you. Time seems to be a challenge for us all, but hope you drop by more often.