Sunday, June 18, 2006
After the movie, at about mid-day, I took the girls over to the local pet store again. I had mentioned that the last time I had been there to pick up some millet sticks, they had had a white albino bird and a couple of yellow lutinos.
They were all set on having the white one, but we found that it had been sold. We arrived at the store just as a local bird breeder also arrived, who was obviously trying to sell his birds and was also checking out the other birds that were there, expertly grabbing a bird of interest and inspecting its features carefully as it wriggled in his hand. In the end it was established that breeder couldn't expect more than half of the selling price for a given bird, which the seller didn't seem too happy about, but grudgingly accepted.
All the while both girls were inspecting the birds, and they both settled upon one of the two lutinos, the one which had pure yellow wings but had streaks of green on its chest and belly. It has a light purple cere, so I have no idea as to the sex, but it was obviously spunky since it kept pecking the box it was in on the way home from the pet store.
The name that was settled upon a few blocks from home was "Goldie". This one settled in fairly quickly with the others, and I suspect it may prove to be a real "character".
Initially a rough start to the day, as I was up with Annie in the wee hours as she had a nasty cough, which I think was the result of too much sun and over-excitement from the day before. I ended up sitting with her watching some cartoons waiting for the medicine took effect.
Erika had a shoot to go to in the morning, so she was up and out shortly after 6:30am.
Given the bad night with Annie, was glad that Vanessa slept in a bit as well, and upon waking let me sleep a bit longer as well. I was woken around 9am by Vanessa who handed me a good cup of tea, and went on to toast a bagel with some cheese on it as a breakfast in bed. Annie was up by then too, looking a lot better, and I was soon presented with a plethora of pictures and artwork that both girls had worked on over the previous week at school in prep for Father's Day. A very pleasant way to wake up.
Another hot, humid day. After the excitement and activity of the previous day we spent a deliberately quiet morning.
With the sun beating down and the air conditioning in the house slowly losing the battle to keep the place cool, I took the girls out to lunch and then a movie and the almost icily-air conditioned movie house. Went to see the latest Pixar production: Cars. This was a week after opening, and the house was just about packed, so safe to say this will have a decent run. On the whole I have to agree with the critics who complained that the story was slighter than previous efforts, but no less fun for all of that. Given the recent spate of computer animated films centered on anthropomorphic animated animals (Ice Age 2, Over the Hedge, Chicken Little and to a lesser extent Hoodwinked), seeing a movie about anthropomorphic cars is a welcome change. Can't help but wonder about a world inhabited solely by talking cars, though the occasional glimpse of bugs that take the form of mini-Volkswagens with wings points to a very different evolutionary process. ;-)
Afterwards we went to local pet shop in order to pick up a new budgie, in order to bring us back up to 3. And that's the next story...
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