Me and my dogs the brown dog that’s rufus and the white one that’s willow I love them both I don’t live with them anymore but I still see them very now and then

 

ben scratching on the door

Time for a rest

ben has a nice shed witch is nice and warm but its not enough. He wants to get inside and scratches on the sliding door it wakes us up every morning. so my dad put some old lounges in front of the door and now he sits on top of the lounge looking at us form outside. Does anyone know how to stop dogs scratching on the door?

my dad is teaching me how to play a guitar

my dad is teaching me how to play the guitar so I can become a superstar its good to do other stuff than be on Facebook all the time and my dad got me into this so I can become a good speller and to write comments
and I love doing this blog its great for me to learn and get to know people and its good that we live in Melbourne. and I love it up here and I am thinking to do childcare for a part time job.
me and my dad love taking picture’s of us and he is the best dad ever that I could ever have .

Why blogging with your daughter is Great

From my point of view as Susannah's dad it gets her off all that social media like face book and makes her focus on writing and reading other blogs. It takes a lot more effort to learn blogging than to click around on Facebook.

From my point of view as Susannah, my dad and I get to do this together. I am learning new things. I just learnt how to change background colors. I have seen many great blogs already. Dad and I have taken many pictures of the birds and Ben the dog together.I am teaching dad a bit about Facebook. I am feeling down sometimes and take it out on dad but I don't mean to and have trouble controlling it.

We have also included Michelle, my sister, in this blog but we are having trouble getting her to write a post. she is happy to pose for pictures with her Benny.

AMAZING SECRETS ofa bird whisperer

Suzy one of our bird whisperers has amazing insider secrets to taming birds to sit on your finger and not bite.
1. Be patient and spend lots of time with the bird
2. Feed it its favorite food. for lorikeets it is apple
3. when it goes for your finger do not pull back it will sense your fear.
4.start them young. babies just out of the breeding box are great.
5.They will be wild at first -don’t be discouraged by this.
6.get a net. You may need it to retrieve it when it gets up on the curtain rails.
7. Be mindful of open doors and windows .they like to fly away.
8. Get a friendly bird whisperer from your neighbor hood to baby sit when you are away
Well that’s all for now folks. I will be happy to receive your kind comments.

How I got my kids off facebook and onto something more worthwhile

It is frustrating to see kids get wrapped up in technology. I have come up with some strategies that are helping me to relate better with my kids and make them more productive at the same time.
1.I got my two girls -the bird whisperers to start a business -of hand taming birds for people who want a friendly hand tame bird for their young child or grandmother.
2. I started a blog with them called hand friendly birds.
3. In the process I found out what accounts they were logged into and what they were doing on line and went for walks down by the river with them taking photos of Ben and the birds. I have found them very excited about the likes and comments they have been getting and there have been many opportunities in the reading and writing of posts and comments to discuss spelling and grammar.
4. this blog is doing way better than my own clarinet passion blog. It goes to show that you can get a better result helping someone else than you do for yourself.
I hope you like this blog and have nice things to say.

Ben

Ben loves his walks. I get up early even if it is still cold and dark to take him down the river for his walk. One morning Ben started going crazy at three in the morning . He must have thought it was later because I had to get out of bed to walk him  around the park to get him to settle.

10 steps to writing a great blog post

smile for the camera benny

Getting more likes and follows seems to be the objective of blogging. I opened this blog account(hand friendly birds) with my daughter about a week ago to keep her away from Facebook and to teach her some new skills and I am surprised at how much more successful this blog is than my own blog. The following list sums up the reasons I think this blog is going so well.

1. More use of pictures and less use of text. Most of the posts contain pictures.

2. Because I am writing the blog for someone else I am doing a better job of it. Think about doing a job for someone else. For example painting a wall. Would you take more care?

3. This blog has lots of pictures of nature, animals and people that convey emotions.
4. The blog has a focus. It is all about taming hand friendly birds and the animals that the children keep. It is also about blogging with my kids. That is a fairly narrow focus and crosses a lot of blog categories at the same time.

5.  Write a blog post a day. I have been posting a minimum of once per day. So stay in touch with your blog. Don’t let it go stale.

6. Comment on other people’s blogs and write nice things about the blogs you like.

7. Write catchy headlines. The above headline is an experiment in writing headlines. Some marketing material I read mentions the use of certain words that generate more interest in headlines, for example, 10 steps, how to, insider secrets and so on. So I am giving this a go with my ten steps headline. It is all just a try on.

8. Don’t over think it. Just get in there write it, post it and get out of the way. It doesn’t have to be perfect. With this blog I have been using the family camera around the birds and the family dog and just write about the first thing that comes to mind.

Well that’s about all for now.  I will come up with number nine and ten another day. Let us know what you think with your nice comments and enjoy the blogosphere today.

 

 

shed clean out

 

we had a shed clean out today. It was a bleak grey day in Melbourne so we decided to get a bit physical to lift the mood. we cleaned out the bird sheds and then went over to the basket ball courts to shoot some hoops. dad did some maintenance around the house. Bart our rainbow lorikeet can get a bit possessive of his cage if you go too close to it but our two bird whisperers Michelle and Suzy can handle him okay.

blue budgie hides in bookcase

Birds get into all kinds of places to escape being trained by our two expert bird whisperers. We had to pull a whole bunch of books out of the bookcase to find this little escapee. Before long he will be sitting tamely on the ends of the girl’s fingers as natural as if it is a branch in an idyllic woodland.