The New Bird an Escape Artist

Well this one is a longtime coming a few weeks back my wife and I found out our tiny budgie who has talked and sang for over a decade was very sick and the vet suggested to put him down.  Well as you can figure out from the title that we did not go without it for long my wife went and got another budgie shortly after this as our other birds seemed to be sad without the little chirp of the budgie in the room as we also have a two other birds.


Well we placed our new feathery friend in seclusion for a couple of weeks as they recommend this before introducing them to other birds.  Once we placed this new bird whom we named Sampson into the room with the other birds well needless to say everyone was quite vocal and happy about the addition. 
The funniest aspect of this bird though is he is quite an intelligent sucker as my wife and I sat spending time with them we had the Cockatiel out as he is hand tamed and well Sampson did not like this.  He was not too vocal but for the longest time he was climbing around the cage trying to find weak points and the small doors that move up/down.  He was actually trying to escape it was amazing to watch first off this bird is very young just a baby maybe 5 weeks old when we got him and here he is finding ways to escape from his cage.  If a bird at this young age was figuring out how to get out he will most likely make an easy go of it when he gets older which we will be keep a close eye on.



Birds are awesome yes some people have phobias or fears of birds I can sympathize with this if you do not however birds can make a great companion they sing, some talk, and most of them have crazy little antics that are one of kind and can keep you quite entertained.  Yes some will repeat words so at times if you are not careful what you say it may be repeated by the bird reason many birds have potty mouths. 



I was very saddened when we had too put the bird down simply said if you have pets instead of kids these are your kids and for me and the mrs. these are our pride and joy.  It's an honour and privilege to be a caregiver for God's animals and I'm very happy to say I have a large animal family. 



God Bless and Peace.

Recipe: Nectarine Peanut Butter Salad

Ingredients for Dressing needed:

Organic Peanut Butter not the raw kind for myself it is too expensive
Bottle of Sweet Chili Sauce for Chicken usually find in chinese section of grocery store.
Cayenne Pepper
Sea Salt
Crushed black pepper
water
Nectarines


For Dressing:

2 Tblspns of peanut butter
2 Tblspns of sweet chili sauce
pinch of cayenne
1tsp of sea salt
1tsp of black pepper
1/2 cup water
1 Nectarine pit removed
Place all ingredients into a blender and blend until smooth add more water if too thick until you get the consistency you want.

Salad Ingredients I chose and also recommend:

I chose Bok Choy for the base since the dressing is like a thai peanut sauce
cucumber, tomatoes, celery, spinach for some added greens, wedges of nectarines to compliment the dressing, and you could add some bell pepper if you like I however did not have any on hand.

I will not say the amounts of the salad ingredients because it all depends on how many people you will be feeding be it yourself or your whole family.  I had this for dinner this evening and I would have to say it was awesome the little kick that Bok Choy naturally has and the zing of the dressing and pairing of the sweet nectarines and the heat of the chili sauce with the touch of asian flavour MMMMM.  The dressing above will make plenty and you can always double or even triple the recipe.

One last thing this is a high protein salad and also has some fat content with the peanut butter if your watching your fat intake maybe omit the peanut butter and make a spicy nectarine dressing instead.

God Bless.

DTM "The Life Regenerator" Completes Cross Country Cycling Trek LA to NY

Well some of you may know this already if you follow the liferegenerator Dan McDonald.  At the start of the summer Dan made a choice to show everyone that even the most daunting tasks can be done on fruits and veggies.  Like cycling up to 150miles in one day, or simply getting up at early hours to beat the day's heat seriously most of us would not even fathom cycling for 10-20miles let alone over a hundred.  Now Dan has truly shown many of his followers and others who he inspires that living raw doesn't have to be an issue to overcome any challenge that you face in your life.  Only placing yourself in a mind set to do what you want in life will eventually make the changes that your striving towards.  Dan The Man-The Liferegenerator as he is known on Youtube inspires thousands of people throughout the world with his antics on screen and his wisdom of living raw for over a decade and also bringing so many raw foodist's and very wise people to the viewing public space of Youtube.  I can only say that I'm grateful to Youtube and Dan for the inspiration he brings to us all and all the other raw foodists that he has introduced us too over the years.  I wish him well in his life and that he continues to bring his words of wisdom and of course all his awesome recipes and his great friends over the Youtube waves.  Truly his journey that started in Los Angeles and ended in New York is a success worthy of some acknowledgement.  I only wished he would have done this for some type of charity if only to help find a cure for something.  In general though spreading the word of living raw is a huge hand-out to healing and curing illnesses the world over.  I hope others will take the knowledge that Dan McDonald has given us and the other raw foodists of the world and let everyone know that truly this is the best way to reduce weight, become healthy and fit, and of course remove the chances of cancer and other weight and health related illnesses.

Dan spreads the word of living raw and love these are two of the greatest aspects we can all teach other in this world.  If we all started to love one another more and also started to clean out the toxins and filth that is killing ourselves then we will all start to feel better, look better, and even add some more years on too our lives and yes possibly cure some illness you may already have.

I'm not a Dr. or any medical professional I speak these words only because I have personally seen in myself greater health, more energy, better skin, and overall joy and an abundance of love for everyone and everything around me.  I truly feel that when living a mainly raw food lifestyle you become more grounded possibly because of all the living foods.  I'm not exactly sure why but if eating raw foods makes you feel great there must be something about it that are body needs so why not nourish your body.

I guess if you look at all the natural enzymes and properties that are destroyed during the cooking process when you start incorporating the raw foods you get to enjoy all the nutrients your body has been needing so maybe your body make's you feel joy and happiness because you are giving it what it wants just my opinion makes you think doesn't it?.  I hope you all find Dan The Man on YouTube and hear his story as well as those he has touched with his antics and his travels.  He is truly a grounded and positive soul who reaches out to help others and doesn't hold back his years of wisdom and insight truly a very wise raw foodie.

God Bless and Peace.

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