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”

Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Waffle Power

Sometimes when you have a lot of stress (and also when you don’t have a lot of stress) you might find yourself craving waffles. It is easy to assume this is just because waffles taste so good. Which, of course, they do. But did you ever stop to think how cute you look consuming waffles?ContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Waffle Power”

Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Cockatiel Molting

Anyone who thinks “sheltering in place” can’t be cute clearly doesn’t have any feathers in their family tree. But for those who do, spending extended time at home in the company of a flock member lucky enough to have feathers may also give rise to, well, envy. Luckily, this issue is easily remedied. Just startContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Cockatiel Molting”

Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Cockatiel Napping

Masks. Gloves. Microscopic germs. Grumpy large featherless paparazzi issuing dire-sounding predictions about shortages of something deeply uninteresting called “hand sanitizer” (now if it was called “wing and talon sanitizer,” that might be something actually newsworthy). These are strange, scary times indeed that we are living through. It is hard to find comfort when life asContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Cockatiel Napping”

Craving Comfort and Cuteness? Pearl, Malti and Bruce to the Rescue!

Boy has this last collection of days felt strange. Some of us are feeling too much togetherness. Others of us are feeling too much aloneness. All of us are feeling too much anxiousness, which also means too little comfort. Luckily, our little flock happens to know an easy way to get a lot more ofContinueContinue reading “Craving Comfort and Cuteness? Pearl, Malti and Bruce to the Rescue!”

Cockatiel Digs Into His Grandma’s Homemade English Muffin

It takes a lot of work to train a large featherless waitress. First of all, they are extremely susceptible to “cuteness stunning.” One glance out of your adorable round black cockatiel eyes and….WHOMP. As they say, there she goes again. But with (extreme) patience and (much) perseverance, it can be done. The hours are long.ContinueContinue reading “Cockatiel Digs Into His Grandma’s Homemade English Muffin”

Cute Birb Lasagna Takeover

The best delicacies combine two essential (um) ingredients: tastiness + trajectory. In other words, overall deliciousness makes up just half the rating system when you’re an expert food critic with feathers. The other half of your rating system is flingability (a technical term). Flingability refers to how far your beak buildup flies when you shakeContinueContinue reading “Cute Birb Lasagna Takeover”