Monday Rambling

Wow!  I got a lot of votes on the poll in my previous entry! 

Good afternoon all!  Here in Southern Indiana it is a sunny and beautiful first day of October.  Our morning actually started out gloomy and overcast, but now the sun is out.  We had a gorgeous weekend, and I took advantage of it and did some yardwork.

Eler Beth and I started school a little late this morning, so we had our lunch break late.  She's watching old Tom & Jerry episodes on Cartoon Network and I decided to check in here.  I don't usually let her watch TV while she's having lunch on a school day, but we're kind of playing the whole day by ear today.  Who knows what kind of rules we may break!!  (I kind of like seeing those old cartoons, myself.)

About six weeks ago Eler Beth got a new cockatiel to join Lucy and Louie.  He was only four months old (still a baby, really), is gray and yellow, and his name is Schroeder.  When we brought him home she couldn't decide on a name.  When we introduced him to Lucy and Louie I was amazed at their reactions.  Louie totally ignored him, but Lucy was fascinated with him!  Lucy is the dominate one, and I was a little nervous about how she would accept a new bird in the house.  She loves him!  She would get right up in his face and start singing a love song to him.  If you got him out, she'd throw a fit to go with him.  Wherever he was, that's where she wanted to be.  So I thought of Lucy of the Peanuts cartoons, and how she's in love with Schroeder (whose thoughts are only for Beethoven), and suggested we go with Schroeder until we came up with something better.  Well Eler Beth liked it, and it seems to fit him.  He's a sweety, too.

He's just over five months old right now, and he has been wolf whistling for the past couple of weeks.  I've heard Lucy do a wolf whistle once in a while, but he does it all the time.  It has been rather flattering and good for my self-esteem, because for a solid 20 minutes this morning he was doing a wolf whistle!  Of course, he was looking out the window while he was whistling, but I could pretend he waswhistling at me. 

Well, I will probably be back to visit journals soon.  I think I'm going to let Eler Beth watch a National Geographic video today that fits in with our Science lesson, and let that be it for the day.  It's just one of those day, you know?  Actually, she had a low-grade fever last night, and though she doesn't have one today, I think she's still feeling a little sluggish.  I'm a bit sluggish myself.  So I'll sign off for now and wish everyone a happy Monday and a great week ahead!