The Creation of
“The Gouldian Cafe”
In late
October, early November 2005 the aviary was moved into a new room in our
home. The old aviary had been in what is called “The Media Room” in our
house and we moved it into what is called “The Gameroom”. We tore up
the carpet, and moved the birds in. This had always been the long range
goal, but it needed to happen sooner rather than later due to Hurricane
Rita. After Rita hit we began experiencing rolling blackouts that would
last anywhere from 15 minutes to 6 hours long. The old aviary had no
windows in it and when the electricity would go out the birds would be
in the dark in the middle of the afternoon. I knew that over time this
would disturb their systems in relation to breeding. The gameroom has
four large windows in it, so in a rush over a weekend we made the
switch.
At this time we have two cats, one
orange tabby named TJ who is rather fat and just too lazy to be bothered
with the birds, but last May we acquired another cat, Chloe who is about
a year old and is very interested in the birds. For many weeks we had
to find many creative ways to keep her out of the new aviary as it
didn’t have doors yet. Despite all my efforts to keep her out, she
would always outsmart me and as a result I lost many birds. She had
figured out how to put her paw through the cage bars and unfortunately
several hens came to an untimely end.
Just as soon as we could, we had doors
put up!
The aviary was without a proper
flooring system for about 6 weeks, when this past Thanksgiving weekend
we bit the bullet and laid down “glue less” laminate purchased from Home
Depot.
This project was just finished a few
days ago, December 5, 2005 and I have been able to get into the new
aviary and set things up, hence the birth of THE GOULDIAN CAFÉ.
Grab a cup of coffee or tea and enjoy
the pictures. If you are ever in town (North Houston) you are ALWAYS
welcome to come by The Gouldian Café to share a hot beverage, good
conversation and take in the beautiful surroundings. Be careful though,
you may end up going home with a pair!
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