Cocky-boy / The BBQ

Please meet Cocky-boy. He's a Galah. Galahs, like a lot of bigger birds, have interesting hobbies. One of them is wood working. Or should I say wood chopping. Maybe it's a cross between those. Either way, Cocky-boy loves working with wood.

He's been in his new home for about a month now. Beautiful new cage, much bigger and lots of room to exercise and also more sticks to sit on. The stick on the right is an original stick that came with the cage. The stick on the left is one month later.

So today I decided to put in a new one because we wouldn't want Cocky-boy to fall all the way down.

This is the new stick. Roughly 15 minutes after putting it in the cage. I hope the actual wood will be a lot tougher than the bark.

On a side note about him falling down. He actually did fall all the way down today while bending over too much to bite off bark from the bottom of the stick. No damage was done and he was back up in no time.

In the afternoon we put the BBQ together that Nicole and I got for our birthday.

This called for a test run of course so we fired it up.

With the barbie going only on half strength, Nicole cooked some bits and pieces that we scraped together.

Some bits and pieces were very nice indeed. It was an excellent first test-run!

After all this it was back to studying for me. At some point though I was rudely disturbed by a series of car smashes. Living to one of the main roads you get used to certain sounds but not to these. Running out to see what was going on I saw that 5 cars had smashed into each other. I wonder who was to blame for this...