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From

filkertom, a clip of David Attenborough talking about a Lyre bird. I knew about mockingbirds and have seen footage of one imitating cell phone rings, but the Lyre has them beat, imitating the cameras of the crew that's following it, a car alarm, and a chainsaw.

Sunday 7:
Odd Job: A lot of these, as work is slowly going to the other editors as my end date approaches. I've been reorganizing my recipes, going through papers, and pitching back catalogs

Declutter: Doing the odd jobs listed above has reduced several stacks of paper of "things to be dealt with"

Indulgence: None in specific, but I'm taking it easy this weekend.

Knitalong: Put the "knitalong" afghan down; started Roma. Spent a couple hours redesigning Roma. Knitted 1 square of 275. Today I'm going to buy the other set of needles I need.

3 Items Dealt With: while clearing through the office, I discovered an old computer case with:
1) A 28.8 modem
2) An AOL v2.0 floppy
and
3) the telephone which one of my ferrets bit a number off the keypad.

All tossed

And my feast gear tray is finding a second life as a tea tray for carrying food to my little nook in the bedroom.

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Impressive video. I was especially impressed by the chainsaw impersonation.

Wow, that is impressive. The grackles around here are very good at imitating car alarms, and once I saw one using the pipe at the base of a billboard as an impromptu megaphone, but I haven't heard one do a chainsaw yet!

A pretty tray that I originally bought as a display for loose beads has just been re-purposed to keep all my office-supply stuff corralled on top of the credenza. This, plus removing a CD-storage unit that's much larger than it turns out to have needed to be, will give me a better space in which to organize what I call (semi-ironically) my "altar" -- my collection of Bast figurines, a couple of ceremonial daggers, a framed print of the Moon Goddess, and some beeswax candles. I don't have a good chalice yet, but now I might be inspired to get one.

I was helping a friend with her computer and her dachshunds started barking. And then I heard this other sound and it took me a minute to figure out what it was. It was her parrot. Barking.

I think if my parrot started barking I'd have shot it.

I'm not sure if it barks but a former friend of mine's parrot can duplicate nearly everything else, including the doorbell and phone. So you have to really have to listen to know whether someone is actually calling or it's just the dumb bird.