Parrot Party

Day 141: My internet service was down when I got up, and the automated message was saying that they hoped to have service restored by 8 AM the following day. By evening, they'd moved that prediction to 6 AM, so I was hopeful. However, when the red light prompted me to give them another call this morning, the prerecorded message informed me that it would be at least 5 PM before service was restored. "Due to networking upgrades, you will not be able to connect to the internet." The semanticist in me had to chuckle at that wording. Yes, upgrading to no internet might be a good thing in today's world!

Okay, so the internet was down, but that wouldn't stop me from taking pictures, and the whole gang of porch parrots (Evening Grosbeaks to those of you who haven't been initiated into the club) has descended on the feeders to issue imperative demands for black-oil seed. "Churp! Churp! Feed me! I'm hungry!" And so it begins. I will be making many trips to the seed store over the next five or six months in order to supply these beautiful birds with their favorite food. If it came down to dinner for me or seed for the porchies, the porchies would win, simply because they give me so much more pleasure than food could ever do.