We own birds.

This may surprise you. You might think, “Gosh Mel. I would have never known you own any animal, let alone birds.” But its true. Not one, but two! Two birds, ah, ah, ah.

And while we had the cages, the right food, the toys and the time to spoil them what we didn’t have was the $ for an awesome perch where the two of them could totally climb all over and fling more seeds and bird poop all over our house.

So we went to Home Depot and came out with enough supplies to confuse and frighten the Home Depot people and built this:

And now for something I have been meaning to upload for a while and share with you but forgot. On the same distant pet theme, here's a video of Guppy talking.

Several things to note before playing this video:

1.) I have pet-owner's voice. You know the one--the annoying chick that can make her voice go subsonic and talk cutsey-wootsey to her pets. Don't click if you don't want to hear it.
2.) It was shot on my cell phone--which means the sound is okay, my voice sounds like it is coming from inside the video into your brain, and Shawn's dad, coughing and talking sounds like it's also coming from your brain. Don't have your speakers up to 11.
3.) It's crappy quality and only here to let you listen to Guppy.

O.K. If that hasn't scared you off yet, go ahead and click play. :3