Day Three at Cockatoo Camp
Wednesday, June 12, 2002, Day 3
Leigha’s Morning Report
Wow..yesterday was such a busy day..Bingo was busy trying to get even with
Merlin..and RL and Scarlett were so cute together..wonder if he knows she's a
Yankee..:) Rico, Popcorn, Mackie and all here in Aspen really know how to get it
together..they had the targets all set up for the archery class..but Big Pink
CHicken and some of the taller toos decided to shoot pinecones outta the trees
instead..don't worry they sent the tiels up to help shake them down..good thing
those guys have good aim..THe caws have been really busy in the kitchen..making
sure that all the food is tasty..Blew has appointed himself the official
tastetester for the Prez..that Helps RL out a little bit..The greybirds have
done a really good job of helping with the little ones..Savannah learned the
grey growl yesterday..and has been trying to scare everyone with it..we try to
act scared..but she is just so darn cute..Charleybirds mamma Lupe sent us the
neatest toe rings..Millie would be soooo honored..we're trying hard not to chew
on them..Today we have lots planned..more swimming..Mackie the Dinosaur is
teaching us the swan dive..and Popcorn is going to have cooking classes..caramel
popcorn balls..Yummmmmm..
Badkitten went over really well..Uncle Dancer hit those furrballs with a
vengence..Today we have to go try and round them all back up again..Here kitty
kitty...Maggie has been wowing everyone with her knock knocks..and she is making
a quilt for the auction..I want to bid on that one..Spencer is taunting me with
some secret he knows..but I threatened to eat all of his pine nuts..so he is
behaving now..Well, gotta run..it's French toast day for breakfast..and I don't
want to miss out on any..and I saw some amazons heading towards the dining
hall..and you know how they can eat...
Merlin’s MIFFED!
Dat WASN'T
BERRY FUNNY Bingo ....... leabin' me out inna boat like dat! I don' swims ya
know - I cudda dwonded. An' whad'you do wiv my froot juice 'gredients? I can't
find alla speshul preservatives what keeps it frum spoilin' in da sun! C'mon
Bingo ..... where's all my stuff ..... Bingo! Don' yew pour dat down da sink!
AWWWWWWWWKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!! QUINNNNYYYYYYY - Don' yew DARE call da Momma! I
be good! Honest! Sniffle .... poor poor pitiful me! C'n I hab sum fwench
toasties .. pleeeze????? Sniffle sniffle S'anks
Merlin whose gots nooooo pweservatives in his juice no more. :o(
Bingo got his revenge for the short-sheeting!!!
Now, Merlin, you may can find some more pweservatives if you follow this map. "Fwom the dining hall, go north for 100 'zon feets, den turn left at the dead pine tree (watch out for dat bee hive) then go.... Well, jest follow da map. Hurry back, Merlin, you wouldn't wanna miss anything. We'll we waitin for you at da spa! – Bingo
Special message for Miss Scarlet
I think Blew has something for you. When he heard you were coming, he begged and begged and begged me to let you have Chaco's little party frock (Chaco is gone over the bridge like Miss Milliebyrd). Chaco never wore it, cuz she was a terrible tomboy but it's ever so pretty! It's a little pastel pink satin dress with bows and ruffles, and it comes with a pink lace shawl that has little pearls and glittery stones sewn on it, very romantic....it's stuffed in his napsack somewhere...I guess it's all wrinkled. BLEW! After breakfast you go get that thing and hang it over the hot tub to steam out the wrinkles and give that to Miss Scarlet....
Miss Scarlet will get her present soon :)
Aunt Jo,
tanks for wetting Blew give me da Chaco's bootiful dwess. Aunt Cyndie will be
gwad for me to hav nother dwess. My wed dwess needs a west. I tink Chaco wud be
gwad fer da Rosebud to wer her purtee pink satin dwess. I wove wots of sparklees
on my dwesses and wace too. Tell Blew, his fwen Miss Scarlet woves to hav da
Chaco's dwess. Da Chaco will wove when da news gets to da Wainbow Bridge dat I
waring da pink dwess. I will fwly ober to da Blew when I see him here at da Camp
Cockatoo so he can see da Rosebud in da Chaco dwess. I gotta go now...RL is
sayin dey takin da roll call. Bye......
Miss Scarlet...da Rosebud
Ewww, Opie, stop pooin' in da pool! (Yogi da tattletale!)
And
someburdy, let Merlin outta da baffroom! Who locked dat door anyway! I heared
the front office is up set wif what happent lass night 'bout free in da mornin'!
They's finking about askin' us too's to weave! I guess SOME people don't like
how loud we can really get - but, it's HARD not to holler at dos blutiful girl
Toos when day do da cockatoo dance!
Yogi
Machine Gun Charley Causes a STIR!
I saw-wy
guys! Especial da Prez! I wa showin' widdle Savannie how I can makes da machine
gun sound (I do's it bery gud, huh mama Lupe) & all ob a sudden Mr. RL jumps
onna Prez and is yellin', "Git down, git down!"...
Wells is was kaos fer a while til I cud splain dat it was jest me..(sheepish
grin) den ebery birdy jest waffed and waffed! I glad da Prez wasn't mad at me!
He eben sez my im-ta-shun could comes in handy...
Again, saw-wy I scares ebery burdy!
Your fren,
Da Charley Bird
SAMe wants ta play baseball....but WHAT KIND BAT IS THAT?
When we gonna play baseball?
Leigha must gently instruct: SAMe ..put the wings back on the bat.... We'll play some ball on Saturday..we may even get to sneak in a quick game of bobbin for tiels..but don't tell my Mom..
Darwin STUCK at home!
HI
Eberybirdie. Dis is Darwin. I so jelwus dat awl yu TOOs gots ta go to da Camp
Cockatoo an my mean ol Mom wud not wet me go too!! Her sed I hab to go to da
birdy doctew for my check up and my pointment is wite during da middle ub da
camp!! But hew ben bwinging me to da puter ebewy
day to wead awl da camp news.
Sounds wike awl da campews is habin wots of fun. Cept maybe for gettin stuck out
in da boat. Dat doesn't sound TOO fun. My Mom eben got me one of dem toe wings
so I cud pwetend I was der. I stwutted it awound an showed off to awl da zons
and da conur dat wivs hew. Dos wotten Zons, one ub dem twied to eat my toe wing.
I high tailed away fwum hew weally fast!! Yu
guys keep postin awl yu stowies cause I be checkin in ofen. Maybe nex yew I can
cum TOO. Darwin, wif teaws in my eyes
Miss Scarlet takes time to write back!
Shhhhhh
Darwin...we her in da bedniss woom at da Camp Cockatoo. Me and da RL (my boyfwen)
told all dem toos dat yer berry sad cuz U not at da Camp Cockatoo. We sided to
cum in ann git on da puter and tel ya dis wong wetter.
HI DER DARWIN....WE HER...AT DA CAMP. YOU GONA CUM NXT YER AND WE GONA HAB WOTS
AND WOTS OF FUN. NOW YOU GO YER POINTMENT. EBERRYBIRDY HER SENS DER WOVE TU YOU.
WE GOTA GO CUZ DEM BERRY YUNG TOOS MAKIN WOTS OF "TOO" NOISE AND DA PREZ SAYS WE
GOTA GIT BAC TU DA GAME RUUM.
BYE BYE FROM EBERRYBIRDY AT DA CAMP COCKATOO.
WE MISS U
YER FWENS AT CAMP COCKATOO
Darwin feels better, hearing from Miss Scarlet :)
Dat was so nice of yu Ms Scarlett, RL and de udder TOOs at da camp to wite me a wetter. I shur hope yu guys didn't get caught sneakin in dat buziness woom. My Moms hewping me get weddy for da nex camp!! She gonna teach me da wine dance and TOO step! She says we got wots of dat kind of musik. Hab wots of fun and don get TOO burnt! Darwin, wooking fowawd to da nex camp
Rei’s Shalom Is Stuck at home, too!
Hi Dawin,
Dis is Shalom. I cudn't go to Camp Cockatoo 'cuz it was too wate. Dat dumb mommy
of mine haben been on da 'puter for a while, so we missed da plane.
Besides, she neber awwows me ta pway on it, wif or wifout suparvision. I fink
dat's unfair 'cos dere's 'Too bizness going on all da time and how can I kip up
wif da news if I cudn't go online?
Dun be sad, Dawin. Going to da birdie doctor ain't too bad, dem hoomans aways
give us wots of tweats to make us feel bedder.
Nix time, we will go to Camp Cockatoo and we sit nix ta each udder, OK? I be yer
pweening buddy for da entire twip.
Wishing to wipe ya teaws away, Yur Fwen,
Shalom
OOH, My Fwen Shawom
I didn no
dat yu mist da camp TOO. Im sowwy yu Mom hab ben so buzy. Maybe hew will wet yu
on da puter wen yu gets a wittle oldew. I am 6 now so my mom wets me but she
don't gib me my own passwood yet. Maybe wen I am 7. I
wud be a vewy happy TOO if we cud be pweening pawtnews at da nex camp. We shud
be fwens cuz our brudders, Baby da Burd and Forshun dey bof be in da Townado
Cwub togeddew. One ting I don no though - do yu
pween da yeddow cwest fedders da same way yu pween da wite ones?
Guess I bedder stawt studying up on dat!!
Tank Yu so much fow witing to me. I feew much bedder now. Yur
Fwen, Darwin
Leigha makes a late report on the day – Charleybird causes trouble!!!
Oh my..I am exhausted..it has been a chaotic day..we now know that we have the best security team anywhere..RL and Cowboy were right on top of the Prez when they heard the machine guns going off..turns out..Charleybird was showing the little toos how to sound like automatic weapons..We had to get the pool cleaned out..Opie didn't know that it wasn't a big water dish..and Merlin was stuck out in the lake for 2 hours..with no preservatives for his froot juice. Tonight we are all going to relax for the Texas style BBQ..Not sure what they're BBQing ..but it sure smells good..We'll do some line dancing tonight to the music of COnway Tweety..I have my western shirt all ready to go..and I borrowed Aunt Bev's boots..the blue ones..Zazu shipped them before she went to Juvie Hall..Well gotta run...Wanna hit the hot tub before dinner..
Rayban’s Evening Comments
Boy o Boy
what a day! Poor Merlin...we about laffed our sox off at him and his ol straight
froot jooce stuck in that dingy! I think we laffed til we pooped!!!!! Whew...too
much sun!
Dinner was THE BEST! BBQ ribs an fried chicken an steak fries an macaroni an
cheese an red cabbage an hot links! Killer salad! Carrots an lil tomatoes an
cukes an bleu cheese dressing! Woo WOO all the stuffs we're not spozed ta
have...an 7-up cake for dessert! An of course froot juice - the "good"
kind...feel a lil woozy but not too woozy to do some too steppin - I hear da
musics! All da girls have gingham dresses on an ribbons in their crests, gotta
go grab me a partner!!!!
Merlin’s Report on the Day – A lil too much froot juice I think!
Shur - I
dis fixes up one li'l perch fer da Bingo byrdie, an I gets lef out inna lake fer
EBBER, an' da Charleybird twies ta shoot da Pwez, and didn' ebben gets inna enny
trubbles. Oh well, I gots my preservatives back, so me'n da blender is back in
da froot juice business after supper time. But Auntie Cyndie - I t'ink yew shud
know dat Leigha byrdie may hab wings, but he no angel - why you t'ink he's so
tired? I'm purty shur it wuz him what locked me in da baffroom, and who'dya
think it wuz tol' me 'bout da Bailey's in da chocklit sauce fer da ice cwemes,
huh? But I hab to say, dat made weeely good ice cweme cones! I t'ink Leigha
mebbe ebben improved on Millie Byrdie's recipe book a li'l bit. He gibed it to
me, an now I takin care ub it, an I teachin' da new byrdies how ta sing da fwoot
juice songs, dis like Millie showed me how las' year.
All t'gedder now ..... Stwaberries, Chewwies, and an angel's kiss in spwing ...
My summer wine can weeely ...... C'mon Savanny - don' be shy - sing it LOUD, dis
like RL an Blew!!!! Gib me two pina coladas, I wants one fer each foot .....
Camp is s'posed ta hab sing alongs, isn't it????
Did ennybuddy lets Quinny outa da kitchen yet, or is he still peelin' taters?
Heeeee hee - it so much FUN ta gets him ta do chores - he b'leeves ebryfing I
tells him!
Merlin da Magnificent