Jay’s Life

So, Canada’s Wonderland is still fun. Had a great time on the roller coasters and in the water park all day. Spent half of yesterday at the Farmers Market in St. Jacobs. Where Happie got a big bone, Staysea got some butter tarts and some fresh veggies and I got a summer sausage. All of which are delicious to their respective owners.

Happy Birthday to Paul A. too, as he joined the ranks of the 29s on Friday at his poker party, and his lovely wife Sonia turned a year as well.

We have a yellow budgie with light green stripes, a light green tail and light grey flight feathers. He was found in the Meadowvale area of Derry Rd and 10th line in Mississauga. If you are missing a budgie that meets that description email us at staysea@sdf1.net or post a comment to this posting.

I wanted to extend another huge thanks to Cindy Ironside for her generous donation for the new budgies!! Cindy adopted Icebyrg from me a couple of months ago and has quickly become a bird lover and an excellent care taker for Icebyrg. I want all my birds to go to homes with people like Cindy. So thank-you, twice over!

In other exciting news Shire is a boy!! Shire is the budgie who we were most worried about, the damage from the mites on his beak was so bad you couldn’t see his cere (area around the nostrils). Today when I came home from work enough of his beak had recovered that some small spots of blue are visible, which means he’s a boy. He’s going back to see Dr. Valsamis next weekend to get some work done on his cross beak. He’s going to be a beautiful bird when he’s all better again, but he wont be up for adoption (sorry) he’s going to stay with us.

This is super COOL! This site has listings of SR71 Blackbirds that have been decommissioned and are sitting out on display. But the really cool part is that he’s linked those locations with the satellite images from Google Maps, and you can actually see them scattered all over the US. Why is the SR-71 so cool?

Here is the summary via Wikipedia

The Lockheed SR-71 Type A, unofficially known as the Blackbird, is a long-range, advanced, strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed from the Lockheed YF-12A and A-12 aircraft by Lockheed’s Skunk Works (also responsible for the U-2 and many other advanced aircraft). The legendary “Kelly” Johnson, in particular, was the man behind many of the design’s advanced concepts. The SR-71 was one of the first aircraft to be shaped to have an extremely low radar signature. The aircraft flew so fast and so high that if the pilot detected a surface-to-air missile had been launched, the standard evasive action was to simply accelerate. No SR-71 has ever been shot down.

Go here: Blackbird Spotting

Introducing the 8 newest members to the Johnston-McLeod Zoo for damaged animals!

These 8 pretty little budgies came to stay last friday and they’ve been with us a week now! After much love and care we’re happy to announce they are all doing remarkably well! It hasn’t been an easy process and we (the birds and I) owe a HUGE Thanks to Melissa and Paul McLeod and my mom Ronda for their very very generous donations to pay for emergency vet treatments for Oliver, Shire and Martini (named after Melissas cat). Thank-you guys so much, I really appreciate the support you guys have always given me and especially now during the really tough times. Jason and I are now living with 17 budgies!! Theres a prize for anyone who came come over here and know all of them by name! lol

About these birds in brief: They guys were rescued from a situation worse then I had ever imagined budgies could survive through. They are very ill and infested with “Scaly-face Mites” that eat the birds skin, legs, feet and beaks. The only treatment for mites is very expensive treatments from the vet. Thanks to Mel and Paul and my Mom the three birds who were worst-off got their inital treatments and will soon start to feel alot better.

We will be trying to raise money over the coming weeks to get the other 5 treated so we can nurse them all back to health and adopt them out to good homes. So if you are able to donate that would be incredible! Its $130 per bird for the vet treatment and I can get you a tax receipt for your donation. Our budgie rescue effort are not funded by the Mississauga Humane Society but the MHS will provide tax receipts for any donations. Email me at staysea@sdf1.net.

The 6 of these guys we’re adopting out should be ready to go to new homes sometime after Christmas, so if you’re interested in adopting a pair of budgies keep in touch!

This is awesome. Guess the google is an online game that displays 20 images searched using Google, and you guess what the search term was. It’s pretty addictive.

Guess-the-Google

Staysea has been using this desk for a while, with little success. It used to have a shelf spanning the entire width of the desk, where those 2 drawers are now. So, she was unable to pull her chair all the way up. But thanks to a little craftsmanship, I was able to cut out a span of the shelf. Build drawers, close in and face the drawers with the removed section, and give Staysea a brand new desk, complete with modern handles. Now she can sit at the window, get some sunlight, and actually pull her chair right up and under her desk.