Book Board Chat

aegbooks - taking a few away each day doesn't sound so scary, does it? Pictures wouldn't work for me either. We made a new rule around here a while back--when we bring in something new (books, shoes, shirts, etc.) we have to get rid of an old thing in the same category. So far, it's been working, at least we aren't accumulating more. The pictures made me think of when Hurricane Ike was coming back in 2008. The projected landfall and strength put our small town directly in its path. The evening before, I went around the house taking photos with my digital camera of each room and all the stuff in there. Fortunately, the super high winds missed us and when I looked at the pictures later, I was appalled at how cluttered and junky everything looked. I guess we were so used to looking at everything that it didn't seem as cluttered as it really was. The photos inspired me to get rid of some stuff. We even finished a bathroom which had become more of a junk room in the middle of a several year long hiatus where we had stalled out in the middle of an upgrade.

Have a cockatiel who lives in a good size cage on top of the dryer (which is in a utility room we pass through numerous times ever day). The parakeet belongs to my sister and is temporarily housed in her cage on top of the washer. I think because there isn't room for the cats to jump up on top of either machine that they don't bother. Have seen them sitting on the floor eyeing the cage(s) when they are really bored, but for the most part they are trained to leave the birds alone. I wouldn't leave the cage on top of the dining room table, for instance, where the cat could easily get too close. The cockatiel sounds the alarm when she feels a cat is too close for comfort--it's a distinct sound that means the cat is too close. That bird has lived on top of the dryer for 11 years and so far, so good. Used to have a very large cage on legs and about seven feet tall, but no room here for that one.