Cazimodo Creative

Good morning everyone ☀️ I am up early with the parrots today and happy not to have to rush to work again this morning ☺️ Ziggy has been seeing ghosts again today, constantly up and down my arm saying "It's okay" to herself over and over and growling at something only she can see. My attempt to ask her what was up was met with a hard nip so she's obviously upset about it all. 🥴 I reckon parrots are actually multidimensional beings, which explains a lot. Like the ghosts, the fact that you can look into their cages and they have disappeared despite there being no place really to hide. Even Toby, who is a large bird and who's cage isn't heavily decorated with toys, can just vanish from time to time. It would also explain their uncanny ability to unlock our phones, even though they have fingerprint locks on them, to the extent that I came through once to find that Ziggy was busy putting some weird plastic thing in my Amazon basket 😂 It would also explain how they are able to do exactly the opposite of what you say they will do just seconds after you say it. Multidimensional parrots. That's my theory anyway 😁 I received a new crochet order yesterday so I'll be working on that today. I did end up having to order in yarn for the competition toy as expected, so just waiting for that to arrive now before I can make a start on that one too. I will no doubt end up watching videos of people playing Stardew Valley again 😊 The photo below is a recent crochet order for a lovely lady here on Mastodon who has kindly ordered from me a couple of times now. It's her little terrier dog Zouzou. Have a very lovely day, whatever you get up to 🤗 #GoodMorning #Parrots #Crochet

Good afternoon everyone 🌞 Thanks so much for all the well wishes for our V-E-T trip today. I'm glad to report it all went smoothly and Ziggy's bloodwork has come back with good results. They were a bit worried about her kidneys with her being on the higher dose of Frusol due to the congestion around her heart, but her uric acid levels has totally gone back to normal, so we're good to keep giving her the meds. She also totally charmed the vet by informing me that she was a "Good bird!" once she came back into the room ☺️ Which, of course, Ziggy definitely is. Grant is now making us some wholewheat spaghetti and Quorn meatballs for supper, so I'm relaxing with some Stardew Valley while he does that. Have a super evening everyone ❣️

Good morning everyone ☀️ I'm up early with the parrots and have just finished the morning food prep and cage cleaning session. Ziggy is cuddled up in my hand and all is quiet bar the noise of the air filters and Toby munching away 😊 Peaceful now anyway, but in a couple of hours chaos will erupt as we try to get all three of them in their travel cages in good time for a trip to the V-E-T . It's always a toss up when to start trying to get them sorted. Some days it can take a long time to persuade certain wee birds to go into their travel cages, and often it results in me just covering them up with a towel and bundling them in unceremoniously ☺️ Parrots are clever you see. They know full well that travel cages means V-E-T and even their crack cocaine dried papaya treats don't always work. We usually err on the side of caution and generally end up far too early, but it's better than arriving late in a panic. Toby is no bother though. We have the wooden air crate he flew over from South Africa in and I just pop him into that and we strap it next in the front seat next to Grant while I sit in the back between the two girls' cages. Toby has a travel cage, but it's too big to fit in the car if we take all of them so his air crate works a treat. Also picking Toby up and popping him into his box is painless, unlike the scramble to catch the girls 😊 So, it's Big Adventure Day as we tell the parrots. Some Lidl bimbling later too. Have a very lovely day, whatever you get up to 🤗 #GoodMorning #Parrots

Good morning Fellow Travellers on the Galactic Spiral Arm 🌌 I'm up early with the parrots again this morning and it's a chilly one at -1 C after being a balmy 10 C yesterday. Ziggy is currently curled up in my hand having her head stroked and beak crunching away. She has been a lot more content the last couple of days. I think the raging hormones have settled down again for a bit. She's not going to be happy with me tomorrow though as we are off to the V-E-T again so she can have some more blood tests. We're turning it into a military operation by taking the other two as well for beak/nail trims and checkups. 🥴 She just demanded I take her to get her medication, but now we are back in the living room she is ignoring the spoon and preening me instead. This is the routine lately. Eventually she'll decide to take the mash and then demand to be taken to her cage for breakfast. I will wait patiently and finally be rewarded with a large mug of coffee like the good parrot slave I am 😂 Plans for today are some Parrot Kitchen and then working on the latest crochet order, which is almost done, but needs final tweaks. I'll probably end up watching more videos of people playing Stardew Valley 😁 Wee reminder that next Friday, the 10th, is the draw day for my latest competition , so make sure you enter before then for a chance to win a free custom crochet toy posted to anywhere in the world. Search the #CazimodoCrochet competition hashtag for details. Have a very lovely day, whatever you get up to 🤗 #GoodMorning #Parrots #Crochet #CazimodoCrochet

Good morning everyone 🌞 I'm up early with the parrots today and have just put Ziggy in after a brief cuddle, and some biting, since this morning she has decided that my right hand offends her and has been attacking it. No idea what the poor hand has done to deserve this, but she's rightly miffed by it that's for sure. I often think that they should send us parrot people to the first encounter with an alien race. We're definitely the most experienced in alien behaviour that's for sure 😂 I finally managed to track down the missing yarn delivery that Royal Mail say I had asked to be left in my safe place ( I hadn't since we were home all day) which turned out to be stuffed behind a neighbour's pot plant on their back step, so I'll be able to make a start on the competition toy tomorrow as well as working on the latest crochet order. Today is co-op BG3 day though. Last week we had an absolute blast in the Mausoleum, figuring out puzzles and taking on, and defeating the Orthon, which was really tough - both Gale and Shadowheart were dead by the end and Ethera perilously close to it. Even Grognak was on low health and not a healing spell or potion between us. But we managed it in the end; Ethera using her flying ability to stay out of reach of the merregons and recasting Call Lighting and Grognak just battering the heck out of everything 😊 Looking forward to more adventures today! Have a very lovely day, whatever you get up to. Have fun. It's the elixir of Life 🤗 #GoodMorning #Parrots #Crochet #BG3 #Gaming

Good morning Fellow Travellers on Spaceship Earth 🌍 I am up early with the parrots again and currently being preened by Ziggy who asked me to go and fetch her meds mix, then promptly ignored the spoon and did her own thing 😊 She grumbles away while preening me, almost as if saying "Look at the state of you! I just did this last night too." I obviously get myself into an unpreened state overnight, which isn't acceptable to Zigs. She's now gone in for breakfast after finally taking her meds with a detour to hide down the side of the couch going "Tee hee hee" as she did so and then popping up with a "Ceek-a-boo!" Obvious pleased with the reaction she then demanded to "Come! Come!", but stopped eating and shouted at me until I made my coffee and came back. Satisfied, she is now happily eating and by the frequency of "Mmm" s and "Good!" s must be enjoying it 😁 Plans for today are either co-op or single campaign BG3 depending on whether Grant wants to play or if the lure of Cyberpunk is too much for him today. We'll see. Have a very lovely day, whatever you get up to 🤗 #GoodMorning #Parrots #Ziggy

Good morning everyone 🌞 I was supposed to sleep a bit longer this morning, but Grant has hurt his back - sciatica it looks like - so I got up and took over when I heard him groaning and yelping downstairs 😊 I have sciatica myself and I know it can be painful when it flares up. So, I'm sitting with Ziggy now, not fully awake yet, and contemplating the work day ahead. And, it's to be a warm one I believe after a zero degrees start. They are talking around 17-18 C for here! Quite a change, but I could believe it after we had sun, wind, rain, hail and snow on Sunday there 😊 Right, Ziggy is demanding "Come! Come!" and I need to get ready for work and have a very large coffee to wake up properly first! Remember, it's the last week to enter my latest competition to win a customer crochet toy as I'll be drawing the winner on Friday. Have a very lovely day, whatever you get up to 🤗 #GoodMorning #Parrots #CazimodoCrochet #Competition

Good morning everyone 🔆 It's Monday yet again, but this one comes with added holiday bonus 🎉 It's actually not seen as a holiday in Scotland by my work for some reason, but they have Saint Andrews day in November instead and we can swap that for today if we want to, so I did. I'm currently having a lovely wee cuddle with Ziggy, while listening to the air filters doing their thing and Toby doing his thing, which is munching away with great gusto 😊 The vet said he has lost weight and is now nice and trim (he was a bit overweight when we got him) which is good to hear given the amount he shovels in! Ziggy is now running up and down my arm making her laughing noises and singing "toot toot toot" ☺️ It's so good to see her so bright and cheerful, obviously feeling pretty good right now. Hopefully we now have the balance of the meds just right. Ah, I am now being informed it is time to "Come! Come!" so I'd best go get her medication sorted so she can have that and then go for her breakfast. No real plans for today so I may do a bit more single campaign BG3. I really should update my website since it hasn't been updated yet this year...but another week or so won't make a difference! Have a very lovely day, whatever you get up to 🤗 #GoodMorning #Parrots

Good morning you lovely lot 💕 I am up early with the parrots today and having a wee Ziggy cuddle before work. Last work day of the week today - yay! It will be crazy busy no doubt, but then I can rest. In the afternoon when Grant is at work and I have all three parrots to deal with Jadie doesn't come out of her cage. The offer is always there, but she prefers not to, so I pull her cage over to the couch where I sit with the other two. It means there's nothing at her back though and she doesn't like that so I put her cover on just over the top and a bit down the back to give her more security. I started putting the other two covers on too ready for when the go in, but now Toby has taken to going back to his cage, happily drinking water and chewing his paper roll. His door is open and he goes in and out as he pleases, but he also seems to prefer his man cave to sitting with me 😂 The java tree is still unused 😊 Ziggy is almost ready for meds so I'm off to sort that out and start my work day. Have a very lovely day, whatever you get up to 🤗 #GoodMorning #Parrots

Good morning everyone ☀️ I'm just up after a nice long lie, courtesy of Grant and the parrots. The wind and rain made for good snuggling up in bed 😊 I wouldn't say we had any storm as such though, more of just "weather" so I think we got off quite lightly. We didn't end up playing co-op BG3 yesterday as it was a lovely day and Grant wanted to make the most of it by going birding up the woods, so I ended up playing by myself. I realised that I had named by character in our co-op with my grandson the same name as my single campaign Bard, so I had two of the same name. This annoyed me and, being a serial restarter, I deleted my Bard campaign and started a new one instead ☺️ You can use the magic mirror to rename your Tav, but it doesn't rename the campaign itself and that would have niggled away at me. Good excuse for another restart anyway, and I finally managed to get the achievement for killing Commander Zhalk on the Nautiloid, and have already had a conversation with Astarion I've never experienced before - the game continues to amaze me with its depth! Plan is to play the co-op campaign with Ethera and Grognak today now as I don't think my grandson is available anyway. We have vegan chicken Kiev's and some potato things lined up for lunch. Have a really lovely and restful day, whatever you get up to.🤗 #GoodMorning #Gaming #BG3

Good morning you lovely lot 💕 It's Monday madness yet again for me with ye olde Inbox of Doom, so I am beavering away already trying to get through it before the back to back meeting start 😁 Have a very lovely day, whatever you get up to 🤗 #GoodMorning

@SeaFury@aus.social Of course he wants your piece 😂

@AnnonBudgie@theblower.au G'Day 🤗 You are a good parrot slave indeed! 😂

@psychopoesie@aus.social I started watching it and have seen a few episodes now, but I'm still not sure about it. My sister thinks it's the funniest thing though 😊

@fffhaus@mastodon.social Welcome to the Fediverse 🤗

@DoubleTreble Good morning DT 🌞

@MAJ1@beige.party Afternoon Maj 🌞

@AnnonBudgie@theblower.au G'Day 🤗 Sounds like a lovely way to spend the day. I love that you have an audience too 😁

@DoubleTreble@cupoftea.social Good morning DT 🌞 Sounds like you need a good and well deserved rest today 🤗

@JustFi@beige.party Good morning Fi 🌞 Excellent choice of poem 😊

@NorcalGma2@sfba.social 🤗❣️

@NormanDunbar@mastodon.scot Good morning Norman 🌞

@MAJ1@beige.party Good morning Maj 🌞

@BenartyComputer@mastodon.scot I almost made that mistake! I wonder how many people will.

@SeaFury@aus.social Sorry to hear that. I hope you start to feel better soon 💕

@MAJ1 Good morning Maj 🌞

@Caiotekit So lush! 😍

@DoubleTreble Good morning DT 🌞 Hope you are having a good day yourself ❤️

@AnnonBudgie I reckon a dried papaya treats offered by the offending hand may do the trick later 😊

@dilmandila Congratulations 🎉👏

@Sarah111well Good morning Sarah 🌞 Yup, I think it expky a lot 😂 Have a good one!

@kerravonsen@mastodon.au The real dog is such a cutie. I tried to capture what I think her spirit is like 😊

@CiaraNi Good morning 🌞

@MAJ1 Good morning Maj 🌞

@NormanDunbar@mastodon.scot Good morning Norman. Enjoy your "you" day ☺️

@DoubleTreble@cupoftea.social Good morning DT 🌞 What a panic for you during the wee hours! Hope you have a nice relaxing day ahead

@AnnonBudgie@theblower.au G'day 🤗 Wow, that's hot. I'd be lying in a puddle instead of contemplating woodwork 😁

@johnmwildlife Welcome to the Fediverse from a fellow Scot, and parrot slave 🤗

@NorcalGma2@sfba.social Beautiful words as always ❤️

@peejmaybe 😱

@NormanDunbar@mastodon.scot Good morning Norman a very happy Level Up 🎉☺️

@PixysJourney Thanks Pixy. You too 🤗

@skyfire747@aus.social Good afternoon Anthony 🤗

@JustFi@beige.party Good morning FI 🌞

@sunumbral@beige.party 😱

@SeaFury@aus.social Aww, thank you 🥰 He was such fun to make 😊

@hndrcks@dmv.community @ianbetteridge@social.vivaldi.net 😂 Brilliant!

@AnnonBudgie G'Day and happy Tuesday to you 🤗

@JustFi@beige.party Good morning FI 🌞 Thank you. Hope the weather improves for you if you're planning to go out. Looks a bit driech today unfortunately.