My daughter with her stuffed animal toucans (all gifts) and toucan art from Minted.com. We're renting a warehouse for the winter months up here in north Idaho for our birds - we usually keep them outside year round but that's not happening here in Idaho! It's not Florida weather anymore, that's for sure! We had looked into certain types of part...

The Ultimate Daddy-to-be Survival Kit I made for my hubby. When I first learned there was such a thing as a "hospital survival it" or "daddy-to-be survival kit", I was super excited and curious. I looked at just about every one blogged about online and studied what was in them. But I felt like a serious personal touch was missing - and maybe it...

Photo by Dave Location: Sedona, AZ Freeflying: Blue throat macaw "Jinx" When we moved from Saipan to our house here in Florida all we cared about was space for our birds. Our house has a bird room that is 200 square feet and tile floor, and room for 3 6-foot diameter aviaries outside in our backyard. We back up to 100 wooded acres of nothing-ne...

Custom Artwork of my family by Luiza RL Life with our birds after a 2 year long tour has been very different. It’s nice not to need to have expectations, I will admit that. We were never really into much of a routine on the tour. The number of shows each week changed, the times changed, and the miles we drove and places we stopped and arrived t...

I don’t think the story of how Dave and I met is published anywhere, not in as much detail as I’m about to offer anyway, even though we went through the story many times for radio interviews and other PR appearances. So here it goes...   Dave and I grew up in cities that were 1.5 hours from each other in the Pacific Northwest. We were actually ...

Photo provided by Sandra Van Hoek (interview-ee) Wanna know how to save on parrot cage prices? Don’t use one!  It seems entirely against the norm and we’re all always looking for the next best cage... the biggest, the coolest, the prettiest... but what about those parrots who live cageless? How do people do it without having everything destro...