health and safety day at ups

ups had their health and safety awareness fair yesterday, and as david is on the committee, we thought we should make an appearance.  here was one of the signs hanging up in the plant.  it made me laugh because i've met (and...(cough, cough)...treated) a few boxes that look like very unwelcome guests of honor.

this guy might be able to handle this box on his own if he were lifting with his knees instead of his back.  you know, get stuff in the power zone...
here's where david clocks in every day.  the board to the right of him is filled with pictures of drivers and trucks who weren't safe while on the job.  there were some pretty bad wrecks posted on the board!  there were also stats from the day and week before to motivate all the drivers to reach their best potential of saving the world one box at a time.

here's where david takes his "coffee" break.  i think david is really pushing the hot cocoa button.
here's the flame truck.  this is what they drive around during parades.  wouldn't you feel pretty special delivering boxes in this thing?!  i know i would.  i suggested the committee should use this truck as incentive to get guys to drive safer.  you know, let the safest driver from one month drive it around for deliveries on the first day on the next month, and so on.  david looked at me and started laughing.  he said that would be a punishment; the truck has over 700,000 miles on it, it's unreliable, it's small and wouldn't fit the box load for delivery no matter how light the load that day.  so then i suggested they make it the punishment truck for the least safe driver.  we'll see what happens after the next safety meeting! 

all about the birds

david hates these kind of posts because "it's not like the birds are our kids, michal!"...but a few of you have been asking about our birds, so i thought it'd be fun to do some bird hollywood videos.  i had posted a video with tumnus earlier in the month, but when i listened to it i realized you couldn't hear tumnus at all.  so i got some new film...i hope y'all enjoy our little birds!   

this is lucy's favorite perch in the bathroom.  when we take a shower, or if i'm in there doing my hair and make up, she loves to get in the corner and nap.  it's like pavlav's effect--when the bathroom fan goes on, she goes in the corner to sleep.  she also has a very sweet disposition.  she's still in the baby mode where she'll puff up her feathers and look super cute. when i was sick a few months ago i had gone into the bedroom to sleep and left the birds out in the kitchen area on their cage.  i fell asleep with one hand under my head.  when i woke up i found lucy sitting on the pillow next to my head and one little claw holding one finger, like she was saying, "it's ok, i'm here."  we keep their wings clipped, now, so she had made quite the trek from her cage to our bedroom in order to be with me.  such a sweet bird.  

tumnus, on the other hand, is a brat.  he'll squawk until he gets what he wants.  he likes to squawk during the entire shower.  either that or pass the time blowing his beak.  he has this really weird habit, like he's trying to blow his "nose."  he's always been like that.  when i took him to the vet i asked her if his sinuses were impacted, and she said he was completely clear, and the blowing thing is just his way of interacting with the world.  we've noticed he'll "blow" more when david and i are laughing (like it's his way of joining in on the fun and laughter), or when we are blowing our noses.  he'll give his own little blow if he sees us grab a tissue.  i've tried to capture it on film, but it's really quiet.  i also caught some bath time.