Are you a Bird Addict?

To find out just answer Yes or No

• you consider the Bird Club meeting the most important event of the month
• you find cleaning cages highly therapeutic
• you make eggfood for the birdies before you give your own kids breakfast
• you busy yourself in the birdroom all day but your husband has no clean socks
• you spend more money on bird food than on your own groceries
• you tell the family "hands off the fresh veggies", because they're for the birds
• you actually have a "birdie photo album" and insist on showing it to everyone
• you think a baby bird is absolutely adorable
• you find it exhilarating to get a 2 mm ring on the leg of a naked wriggling chick with the biggest feet in town
• you scramble eggs for your spouse and your birds, and forget and give your spouse the ones with the shells in
• you go to work with feathers and seeds in your hair and don't mind when the 'uninitiated' comment
• you can't soak your clothes in the laundry sink 'cause it's full of birdie dishes
• you don't mind that the windows in your outdoor aviary are better quality than the ones in your house
• you don't freak out when someone points out that there are birdie droppings on you
• you wore out the blades in your coffee grinder and blender chopping up cuttlebones for the birds
• you can't get another thing in the fridge because two shelves are dedicated to "birdie food"
• you're not upset even though the cockatoo chewed the buttons off the telephone
• you constantly have scratches on your arms because of close encounters with cage wire
• you happily pay $20 postage on bird seed from down east, but moan about the 48cent stamp on the power bill
• you tell your spouse not to plan on going anywhere during the breeding season, and get 'the look'
• you actually have a 'bird sitter' on standby
• you freak out when your spouse has planned an event that conflicts with the monthly Club meeting - and then doesn't understand why you are so upset
• you fall asleep in your bird room chair listening to birdie vocalizations
• your adrenaline is at an all time high during show season
• you pack up your birds and travel hundreds of miles to the bird show, stay up half the night talking to 'birdie people', up at 6am to rush to the show hall, drink gallons of coffee, fidget and chew your nails off while they judge your birds, then drive home, unpack, catch up with your chores, and call it "a wonderful vacation"

JOIN THE CLUB!

Thanks to Mary A. Vesper and Nanci for their 'ideas' and to Cindy and Jean for their 'important' questions.