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When you have feathers and are tropical by nature, you know warm weather is the best kind. That’s when all your favorite delicacies show up. For instance, when the weather gets especially warm, sometimes your large featherless assistant brings home a very large, round, green and red dish. It is juicy and delicious and flingable -ContinueContinue reading “Day 283: Watermelon for One”

The “Terminator” is a fearsome foe. If it wants you, it will get you. There is nowhere you can go – no place to run and hide. Imagine you are an innocent, unsuspecting waffle. You have no idea there is a “Wafflenator” sent back from the future. You don’t know about its specific mission – to terminateContinueContinue reading “Day 282: The Wafflenator”

In the most competitive nesting seasons, even having two separate luxury casas, a large featherless assistant, a personal chef, and international fame and adulation (on account of prettiness, of course) may not cut it. In these seasons, you can make a clear case for breaking out the big guns – something only the champions ofContinueContinue reading “Day 281: The Man Cave (Nest)”

In France, it is not considered at all unseemly to show your appreciation for fine cuisine with a robust post-meal belch. But if you are lucky enough to have feathers, you know the belch is for beginners. Why disturb your delicate digestion when a much simpler (and undeniably more elegant) signal will do? This is calledContinueContinue reading “Day 280: Tail in the Air Dining”

For beings who are lucky enough to be born with soft, aerodynamic feathers and a naturally royal demeanor, the jungle will always be “home.” There is nothing like surveying your turf from up high in the jungle canopy, seeing everything while still remaining unseen yourself. In fact, just how the “lion” – that round downyContinueContinue reading “Day 279: King of the Jungle”

Being small and sleekly feathered sometimes means battling misconceptions. For instance, often your featherless dining partners appear to think being small in size means you will also be small in appetite. So – like any cause worth fighting for – you have dedicated your life to setting the record straight. Author: Shannon Cutts Co-Author: Pearl Cutts

When you have feathers but you belong to a flock of beings that don’t have any feathers, you have to adapt. For instance, as a feathery being, you prefer to eat your meals in daylight. However, many featherless beings seem to like to save the last meal of the day for after the sun goes down.ContinueContinue reading “Day 277: Advanced Stalking Skills”

There is a reason beings with feathers like to climb trees. That is where the crunchiest fruit grows. Let’s say, for instance, that you have feathers and a very tall tree walks by. Here, you would want to climb up it right away to get to the fruit before your competitors do. Author: Shannon CuttsContinueContinue reading “Day 276: The Crunchiest Fruit”

Many companies today like to install something called an “intercom system.” This helps people at the front of the office find people at the back of the office and vice versa. It is basically the equivalent of loudly yelling someone’s name….without the (highly unprofessional) yelling, of course. These systems don’t come cheap. Yet oddly, forContinueContinue reading “Day 275: Intercom System”

Every summer like clockwork, you watch your large featherless assistant begin stocking up your frig with sweet watery things. They come in all shapes, sizes, and colors – from large oblong green striped things to small round orange things to red heart-shaped things with green tops. She cuts them up and stores them in thatContinueContinue reading “Day 274: Fresh Plastic Bag”