Stress is nobody’s bestie. Whether it comes from unauthorized (at least from you) visits to the large featherless beings in the unattractive white lab coats or something awful called “social distancing” that means you are supposed to stay far away from the ladybirds during nesting season (as if), stress is a bona fide party killer.ContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Do Not Disturb Bird”
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Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Big Bird Bite
Biting may not be considered the most socially appropriate response in certain circles. Sad but true. The longer you spend living in an interspecies flock, the more you are likely to notice how frequently your flock mates prefer to waffle around the important issues rather than tackle them head-on. Their loss. Whether the threat isContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Big Bird Bite”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Drop It Like It’s Sparkly
if there is such a thing as too much of a good thing (which is totally debatable when you’re covered in feathers), there is bound to be too much of a bad thing, too. Like too much stay-at-homing. Or too much soapy hand washing. Or too much of that clear slimy bottled goo that makesContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Drop It Like It’s Sparkly”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Atta Bird
If there is one fact you can count on in the greater food chain o’ life, it is this: every day is going to be different than the day before it. Sometimes, this is a good thing. For example, perhaps one morning you open your adorable round black eyes and spy a line of singleContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Atta Bird”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Fling It Now, Ask Questions Later
Back in the days of ye olde Wild West, gunslingers knew just what to do when someone or something annoyed them and wouldn’t go away. Shoot it now. Ask questions later. When you have feathers, you know that while the West was undoubtedly wild, it was still no big deal compared to the food chainContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Fling It Now, Ask Questions Later”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: A Box Full of Feathers
Sometimes you just want to curl up in something comfy. You might feel like this when not one, but two! shelled beings move into your household and then simply refuse to leave. Or you could feel like this when your large featherless scheduling coordinator makes an appointment for you with the scary large featherless beingContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: A Box Full of Feathers”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Keep Calm and Molt On
Being born with feathers automatically makes you very brave. Need proof? You just keep waking up every morning. You don’t know what you will find. Maybe for 21 straight years full of months and days, everything has been just fine. But that doesn’t mean it always will be. One morning, you might wake up toContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Keep Calm and Molt On”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Color Coordination, Camouflage and Cuteness
With age comes wisdom. At least if you are born with feathers. Once you get to the stage in life where you have a whopping 21 years under your belt, you have learned there are some things you can control and some things you cannot control. For example, you can’t control those awful microscopic thingsContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Color Coordination, Camouflage and Cuteness”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Cute By Association
When you are born with a face (and a body, and wings, and a tail) that loves the limelight, it just makes sense that small rectangular flashing devices everywhere would want to be near you. After all, there’s nothing more comforting than looking really cute. When really tough stuff goes down on the small roundContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Cute By Association”
Cockatiel Stakes His Laptop Claim
In today’s culture, it has become popular to put a ring on items you particularly like and want to claim for your very own. Clearly, this is because most beings don’t have any feathers. In fact, the vast majority of life forms are completely unable to grow their own feathers (not for any lack ofContinueContinue reading “Cockatiel Stakes His Laptop Claim”
Love & Feathers & Shells 