Thursday, June 30, 2011

Bonnie blues

I know I was planning on giving a report on the first 2 dayz of akon, but in light of a recent tragedy it seems that will have to wait. Yesterday morning my mom told my brother and i to hurry and get dressed, dad had found a fledgeling blue jay in the neighbors yard. My family loves to rescue and raise fledgeling baby birds. This was no exception. My brother and i grabbed the bird cage we got at canton and sprinted over to our neighbors house. We saw dads car parked in fromt of the yard, he was bent over trying to keep the bird in one place. when we got there he grabbed the bird and put her inside the cage. sean had forgotten to bring the door lock and we had to speedwalk to the house with the both of us holding the cage closed. when we got home the preperations to make the cage as tidy as possible bagan. we sprinted around the house, gather plastic containers to be the nest and the water bowl, pulling out the paper shredder fro it hiding place and stuffing some of the shavings into the "nest" bowl, filling her water bowl  and placing both inside her cage. i was the one who was chosen to look up what food to give her. we ended up deciding to give her apple sauce and  some blueberries. we even went to the store to make sure we would have enough food to last her her life. Although at first she diddent eat we were not worried. the other birds hadent eaten at first either. we just figured it was shock and let her be. when dad came home from work we asked him what we should name her. He decided on bonnie blue from "gone with the wind" I spent the entire day dinging "my bonnie lies ofer the ocean". The next day however. bonnie lay dead. It took us untill about 8:30 to realise something was wrong. At first we has just assumed the bonnie was asleep. She had slept all day yesterday and so we thought nothing of it. it was my little brother who found her. he had gone to check on her and became worried when she did not react to his whisteling. upon further inpection he found her no longer with us. She was laid to rest behind the tool shed. her grave reades a such
"dearest bonnie,
though we bearly knew you,
you leave us with our hearts in two."
R.I.P. bonnie

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