Blah, paperwork for WOYWW

My desk is no fun this week.

I've left my tax until the last minute

and now all I have on my 

"art" desk is paperwork.

Blah, just like the old days

when I was a boring old bookkeeper.

(sigh).

Such a sad sight

and to make it worse,

the number one man in my life

is ill.

No, not my hubby

 he's way down the list.

It's my beautiful boy, Charlie the parrot.

He started picking at his feet and it wasn't mites.

Turns out he has extremely high

cholesterol, yes you heard right,

birds get high cholesterol

and no it wasn't all my fault,

well mostly, oh alright,

it was my fault.

I have had him for 24 years and fed him on 

the finest quality parrot seed and

what ever veggies we are having, 

in fact all the foods we eat

(he loves a good curry)

including his penchant for

Ferrero Rocher chocolates.

 But it was the seed that caused

most of the problems.

Who knew that you shouldn't feed a bird seed.

Once he's feeling better I have to put him 

on a strict diet of special pellets

and veggies

but he can still have the odd chocolate.

Trying to get his medication down his throat

is my biggest problem right now.

Who would have thought

this innocent looking little fellow

could be so strong and smart.

I've tried everything to get him to take his medicine.

It always ends the same,

I end up wearing the medicine.

If I put it on some food, he throws it at me.

If it gets put on some bread he throws it in his water bowl.

I tried holding him down but who knew he

could get that bottom beak around the top one

and bite a persons finger!

The vet assured me that all birds love this stuff

and it tastes like honey.

The only trouble is,

he isn't a bird, he's a flamin

 smart alec human wannabe!!

Just think how hard it's going to be to get

him off of seed and onto pellets.

Amidst the chaos of this week

I did do a little bit of painting

on my boat.

 

 I've started to add more light and shade

to the boat and

I added some oldness to the seats.

My teacher was explaining to us that there

should always be an element of death or age

Prior to shading.

to a painting to make it more real.

If you do a vase of flowers

there should always be a blemish or dead

leaf or petal.

So I decided to make the boat

a bit old and broken.

I'll do a bit to the hull as well

and then add some more contrast,

but it's looking good so far.

After a layer of shading, more to come.

Well that's me for this week,

now why don't you hop on over to

Julia's Stamping Ground

to see the other desks around the world

this workdesk wednesday.

Did you notice that apart from the tax stuff,

the room is still quite tidy!!!!

Surely that's worth a couple of brownie points??