The other day I was rearranging some bird things in the cupboard, and forgot to put the extra patio sun deck away. I attach a cuttlefish bone to one of these for the Finsters, but even the small version is really too big for my small birds — the bars are spaced too far apart (I ordered them through the mail, so didn't realize). The second one has lived in the cupboard since I got them, until the other day when I was too lazy to put it away.

Instead, I showed it to Peanut, who immediately started squeaking, biting it, and otherwise checking it out. So I hung it on the outside of his door, and he immediately climbed onto it, and walked around on it (awkwardly), all the while squeaking away.

Now, this is the same kind of non-stop, happy squeaking sound that Peanut makes when he's discovered a sunflower seed hiding in his coconut, or when I'm feeding him breakfast, or when he's first settling down for Warm Toasties. This was one happy bird. The only thing I can figure is that he had one of these when he was a baby.

So I put the sun deck on the outside of his cage for a couple of days. And yesterday, on a whim, I removed one of the perches from his cage and put it inside. WHAT AM I THINKING?

For more than 6 1/2 years his house configuration has been the same. It looks like this. Oh, sure, a year ago he stopped sleeping on perch D, and started sleeping on perch C, but still. 6 1/2 years with no furniture changes, and suddenly I remove perch D entirely and put a sun deck in its place? This for a bird who gives me scary beak faces when I put a new toy in his house? Really, what am I thinking?

But he climbed onto it all squeaky and happy when I first put it in, he's been on it a couple of times, the fact that it completely changes how he gets around that corner of the cage now doesn't seem to phase him, and he didn't wake up in the middle of the night screaming because his room was different.

Could it be that I am even more obsessive compulsive stuck in my ways than Peanut?