Sunidesus Sees

Since I have a PhotoBlog now, I'm going to participate in my first Theme Thursday today! This is my boy Dolce enjoying a bath. When he takes a bath he goes nuts. He can spray water over an entire room. He's quite enthusiastic!

This week's Theme Thursday is Babies. I've got two pictures for it. The first one is me and my feathered baby Dolce. Whenever I talk about him, I refer to him as "my baby" so he's quite applicable to this week's theme.

I didn't take this next picture, IWTB did. This is her neice Hannah. She was born June 19th at 1 lb. 12 ozs. She's up above 9 lbs. now but is still stuck at the hospital. IWTB and Hannah's mom Nikki went to visit on Halloween (very cute chilli pepper outfit pics to come) and they took my camera. So... Hannah is now part of my Theme Thursday!

This is Syn's birdie Hermione. She usually gets called Mione though! Very cute, but a little spastic. (The bird, not Syn)

Even my bird is geeky! He flew to this perch and then sat there for probably an hour before he decided he wanted to be somewhere else.

While Syn and I were doing some maintenance on our cache this little gal found us and just wanted to be petted! She hung out with us the whole time we were out there. She very much seemed like a puppy. Pretty much full grown, but under a year old. Very playful and just a complete sweetheart.

I went over to my uncle's (and his wife's of course) house for dinner with my parents. And this is his cat Dory (yes, she really is rather fat, she's on a diet now though) She's somewhere around 10 years old, she was abandoned near my parent's house and my uncle adopted her. There's a story to go along with that, maybe I'll work on writing that down next.

The other day Dolce decided to climb onto my futon and then down onto some clothes that were hanging off the back of it. He hung around on it for quite a while just climbing around before he flew off to another play place.

Dolce will let me flip him onto his back and he'll just lie there and enjoy getting his head scritched. That's a trusting birdie right there.

I went over to Syn's parent's house for Easter dinner yesterday. Her kitties still live there so I've got a bunch of cat pictures to show off today!

I'm on Syn's computer again. Which is appropriate because I'm uploading pictures of her brand new itty bitty kitty! Say hello to Kieran.

The weekend weather chick at work just got a cat on Thursday. We all went over to meet him tonight on our collective dinner break.

His name is Quincy and he's about 9 months old. He's amazingly mellow and friendly. And quite the handsome fellow!

And no, this spurt of posts doesn't mean I have my 'puter back. It just means I was bored at work and decided to get my pictures from my camera onto a work computer so I could upload a couple.

I finally have my 'puter back and I'm participating in my first Photo Friday in a long time. This week's challenge is: Critters

Of course you were all expecting a picture of my Dolce (he's the green one if you're new around here) but now there's a new roomate at the Sunidesus house. Our flock has expanded by one. Meet Hermione, better known as Mione. She actually belongs to Syn, but I've kind of adopted her because Syn was having a hard time with a bird and a cat. And I'm such a bird person... we are now a flock of three.

Syn's kitten Kieran is just so gosh darn photogenic! I stopped by to visit yesterday and took these.

This is Buddy, he belongs to the Sports Director at work. He's a very hyper chocolate lab mix. I think he's about a year old now, so very puppyish still. He's a sweetheart, just very easily excited!

I was having fun with my camera and decided to take more Theme Thursday pictures. So enjoy some birdie feet.

Just because I felt like it you're getting another post today! Are you all lucky or what?

This is Miss Mione taking a nap. I couldn't resist. She looks so soft and cuddly. She isn't all that awfully cuddly, but she is very soft! My boy Dolce is more sleek than soft, but he's the cuddler. They are very different birds!

Miss Mione looking quite proud of herself.

The puppies of a co-worker/friend contemplating Syn's Daquiri (sp?). They're German Shepards and once they decide you're not a threat they are just the sweetest things. Just about a year old now. They just wanted to be petted and have their tummies rubbed all night. I'll probably have more pictures of them later, but I need to go to the library quick before they close so that'll have to wait!

This guy was in my stairway last night.

This particular Fid has a habit of freaking out and flapping madly around the room until she lands on something. This was a new place for her to end up.

I managed to take a picture of my boy flying! Am I good or what? Wait... don't answer that. Just enjoy looking at my beautiful boy.

"Who are you and why do you want to come into my house?"

Taking a good picture of Mione is difficult because she's such a light color. But I just couldn't resist snapping this one of her and her mommy Syn. Mione has a thing for shinny anything!

It's time for Theme Thursday this week's theme is: It's All Good, things that make us smile when we look through the viewfinder.

I know it's expected, but I just had to post a shot of Dolce. He always makes me smile.

I just had to share this adorable picture of my boy that Syn took of him for me. Isn't he just the cutest? And isn't she wonderful for taking care of them for me until they can come out and live with me?

Is that not the cutest face ever?

He's an 8 week old Netherland Dwarf and he doesn't have a name yet.

And this one to try and show his size. That horribly overexposed thing in the foreground is my arm. He completely fits on my palm. And he won't get much bigger either! Full grown is about 2 pounds.

This guy lives at one of the pet stores I use regularly. His name is Bam-Bam and there's a sign on his cage that makes me laugh. "I'm a vegetarian, but I like to snack on fingers." Isn't he handsome?

Here's a shot that shows more of him.

Isn't he cute?

Because I just couldn't resist!

I'll have to take some Fid pictures pretty soon too.

This is from the first night Dolce and Mione could join me in Rhode Island. Thanks to Mom for dealing with all the nonsense to get them on the plane out here.

Same Name TD and I were at one of the local pet stores looking for fish for the new tank and this guy was sunning himself in one of the tanks. I couldn't resist. I think he's a painted turtle? I feel like I remember learning that ages ago. And I think they're the common one's we used to see canoeing all the time when I was little. But I could very easily be quite wrong about that!

And this would be the de-icked fish tank at work. Right now we have three cherry barbs and two platys. We want to get a couple more but we have to wait for it to do an ammonia cycle thing first or else they'll die. (I'm not real up on my fish tank knowledge)

It also seems pretty likely *crosses fingers* that when the production area is remodeled we're going to get a big salt-water tank in one of the walls. Same Name TD and I are quite excited about that.

This is the best shot I've managed to get so far of the baby fish. It's awfully hard to get an in-focus shot through an aquarium! Especially of something that darts every which way for no apparent reason. For size comparison... the blue marbles are, at the most, half an inch across.

One of the various ways I get to work takes me over and past some water. It's kind of a big lake/slow river kind of thing. I've noticed a bunch of ducks, geese, and swans there every single time I take that route to work. The other day I actually had time to stop and take pictures. There's signs up saying it's illegal to feed them, but they're all VERY tame so I'm thinking that sign gets ignored quite a bit.

There's more in the extended entry (as if you couldn't figure that out yourselves)

A little Phototime today. The theme is: It's a Spring Thing!

I left work for my dinner break and this big pink flowering bush was outside. I just had to stop and play for a few minutes. The bees were enjoying it too!

Having fun with Photo Friday today. The challenge this week is: Play

These girls just wanted to play with the "ducks." I'm not sure if the parents were just playing along and not wanting to correct the kids or what, but apparently giant black, grey, and white birds are "ducks."

Despite signs to the contrary everyone, including the security guys feed the geese. So when the kids went off with their parents (and a few suspiciously food like bags!) these guys followed right behind.

There's a little farm/zoo thing in the park near my house. This gal was a most cooperative photo subject!

Driving in to work today I passed this guy just sitting in the middle of the road not moving at all. I had a sparrow hit my car once that acted the same way and the wildlife rehab people said to just put it in a box in a quiet place and let it recover for a couple hours and it'd be fine. So I quickly stopped my car, got out, and gathered up this little feather bundle. He didn't move at all when I went to grab him. So I found a box with some help from Slightly Surly Tape Guy and let him be for a few hours. I went to check on him and he was standing up and acting normally. I tried to get him out of the box, but he flew out! Definately feeling better ;) Once I caught him I took a couple pictures of him sitting on my desk and then took him outside, where he hopped across the parking lot and then took off.

So I'm incredibly late with this week's Theme Thursday. I was having major Photoshop issues and finally got them fixed. This week (or last week's) theme is: Frame

A chain-link framed chicken!

My uncle's cat Dory. We were over for dinner tonight and I just couldn't resist.

For PhotoTime.

It's just wrong that I let this thing bite me just so I could take it's picture.

This little guy and his wife are building a next inside the supports for one of the satellite dishes at work.

I started putting birdseed out on the ledge outside my living room window a couple weeks ago. I now have a pair of sparrows that are regulars as well as at least one squirrel. This guy is the bravest and so far has been the only one that I've gotten a good picture of. Hopefully his wife will calm down soon so I can snap her picture too. :)

I was in the middle of posting this when I realized it worked for today's Photo Friday! I thought it was really cool when I stumbled across these guys in the midst of enjoying themselves. ;) Although, I wonder if something with a brain as primative as a moth's would really have a concept of "enjoying" anything... Well, it was certainly cool to see at any rate! At least I thought so.

Found this little guy while geocaching today. Little bitty toads are cool!

For Phototime. It takes some action to get back in the pond.

Someone ended up on top of one of the cupboards in the kitchen today. Don't worry, I wasn't cooking or anything. Fids are not allowed free flight when cooking is going on!

For Phototime, this week is: Pets. Is he a Momma's bunny or what? ;) This has become his new favorite thing to jump on and around and over...

For WordPhoto which I just discovered yesterday. Today is: Orange

I think this is the best picture I've ever taken of Miss Mione. She is so incredibly hard to photograph!

For Moody Monday:

I don't like how cheap these guys are. It makes them disposable pets and that's not cool.