Well if you're still with us, this is being written by Roy & Joyce. He had his say now it's our turn.

I'll begin with his French lessons. Joyce is from Quebec and we go visit her family each year. They all speak French, ergo the lessons. Joyce's Mom's name is Pauline so the first thing he was taught was, "Allo Pauline, comment ca vas". After he got that, it was on to "Sacré bleu". Heck, he almost had an accent. Then as it was getting closer to our trip, I started singing "Oh Canada, glorious and free". Three days later he was singing it, honest. That's how fast a learner he is.

Now comes the best part. We are at the border crossing and the immigration guard is French speaking and asking us the normal questions, when guess who starts singing "Oh Canada, glorious and free". With that the guard starts to laugh and says "go on and have a good time".

Another time, we were in upstate N.Y. visiting friends. Bob, my friend, taught him to sing "Won't you come home Bill Bailey, Bill Bailey won't you please come home". That's good, but listen to this. One day He and I are sitting out on his lawn just talking, when Bob tilts to one side and lets out a ripper, (to be nice) and Bailey runs over to him and says "what did you do, what did you do". Well I thought Bob was going to fall off his chair with laughter.

We are both smokers, so we have that smoker cough, Yep he coughs just lke us. He also laughs and usually does that when we're laughing, so we laugh even more. Whenever we are making a drink and use the ice dispenser from the refrigerator and he hears the cubes falling, he says, "cocktail time", Of course we laugh and he laughs.

In our kitchen, we have a U shaped counter. He is the owner of one side and not allowed on the other. When he does go there, I yell "Git, git bird, git" and sometimes he'll come bak to his side. Other times he'll test me. I'll say it and he'll just stop and look at me. I'll say it two or three times and nothing. Then I'll start getting up, he'll start back. Not all the way though. The closer I get to him the closer he gets to his side. It's like a game to him. NOW, at any time of a day, when he is on his side and I go to the other side, maybe to make a sandwich, he starts in with "Git, git bird, git". Now he's yelling at me.

There are so many more things that I could tell you about him. He is such a pleasure that I hope you got that from this Home Page. When I bought him, neither of us thought he would turn out like this. Maybe it's because we're both retired and can spend time with him. Maybe it was the luck of the draw when he was chosen, we don't know but we wouldn't trade him for anything. Today, I started teaching him, "I have a web page", I'll let you know how long before he's saying it.

They'll be more about him but I have other things to do with this to make it look and read good. I'm a retired Boilermaker construction worker, so writing doesn't come easy to me. STAY TUNED. If you would like to e-mail me about this spoiled bird, please do so. Or sign "His" guest book, or both.

PS: It's been four days and he's saying, "I have a Web Site". And you know what, he seems to be proud of it. LOL HEY, I just won an award, and Roy & Joyce never did. heh heh

Now I've put together a page with all kinds of things on it. From some cool links to Banner making and other home Pages. Click on the F Key Saver and have a look.

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