The wind is up tonight, and Embers is cuddling warm beside me. The parakeets have retired for the night, the fish tank babbles like the woodland brook. I cleaned the birdcage around 7am yesterday, and one of the 'keets got out. The cage has a couple of big doors, no other way to get into it, but usually they fluster over to the other side. I closed Embers into the bedroom and got out the bird net--much like a butterfly net--and looked around at all the high places... and nearly stepped on him,... Sign in to see full entry.