WE WAIT, WE LISTEN, WE WATCH...

What are we looking for, eggactly, do you know?

We have these wing-thingies, I know, and we go out and flap them, I know, but...why?


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Giz Gifts Us Her Wren

GizMomma, an extraordinarily talented photographer, has shared the first clutch of wrens with all of us and now they have fledged...From the enormity of our beloved barn owls to the teensy baby-tweets of Giz's wrens, we here at the MOD Blog
are grateful to all of you who submit your own special ones for all of us to enjoy! Please keep it up, we are MODS who
love all our wild and companion brothers and sisters: we welcome your submissions and hope you will share your own
experiences with us...Giz, now, about those cranes...
~GizMomma photo

Meme, you are SO NOT ALONE!

We are having a Meeting of Strategy to decide what our next Black Sheep move will be and have unanimously chosen to send you love and kisses to your aching hand and broken heart...we have all trusted our doctors, we know what it's like to feel... (well, we can't exactly Post that!) Just wanting you to know we are sending you Cyber-Hugs with our Molly Mugs! Well, that makes no sense because I am keeping my Molly Mug, but it rhymed, sorry... And you'd better still be able to type, too, because if we don't see you on the Stream (well, we can't exactly POST THAT, EITHER!) Love, Your MODS

Solidarity for our MEME!

Piggies drew a picture of Meme's NEW Hand.

Our Best Friend, Jackie Chan, needs one address and one address only: Meme's doctor!

Richard is just too upset to even report the news objectively...but he will, oh, YES HE WILL! Dear Meme, You are not alone. Your MODS are with you today and we bring along some "friends" to help you. Nice to have so many care for you. We feel your pain. We considered pinching our own wrists at the exact same time in SOLIDARITY for you: OW! THAT HURT! Now we REALLY feel your pain, SiZter! Get well soon and feel free to ask Jackie Chan for anything, Jackie Chan Does What He Can! And Richard will tell the world about it! And the piggies all drew this picture for you...It may be a big owie, Meme, but one big Owie for you and...well, that just really sucks! Who loves ya, Baby? YUM-YUM LOVES YA and i'll nibble my toe - OUCH! -THAT HURT! - just for you!

*for those MODS living on Mars who don't know what happened to Meme, please read all about it in her
WONDERFUL new blog, "TheHowlingHooligan"...and weep!

"I Matter, TOO, Don't I?"

With all the Hallelujahs over his six precious, darling owlets, we seem to have forgotten their progenitor: MEL! And that is so wrong. You know why, MODS? Because way back in the early days, before gag-shag, when there was only "SHAG'N" and Syd laid her eggs (and still there was Shag'n!) we didn't expect so much from our young Romeo, did we? Like, when he saw Syd's first egg, and kicked it around to see it roll as if he was warming up for his first FIFA World Cup! And then there were two eggs and he treated the second one with equal respect, testing it's capacity to score goals by kicking it into the owlbox wall! We watched and waited while compassionate, kind, understanding MODS put us naysayers in our place by calmly reminding us that he and Syd were still such a young couple, teenagers, really, and we should not judge them in haste. Who was judging? I thought - no, some other MODS whose posts we were SHOCKED TO READ! - thought it was amusing, wondering at what point Syd was going to figure out that she was actually supposed to sit on those odd, roly-poly things she laid. And lay them she did: seven! (One non-viable.)

In retrospect, did we give Mel the respect he deserved? Now look at the brood: hopping & flappin' and jumping all over that owl box  - on the roof, no less!

Mel, on behalf of any of us who ever doubted your capacity for virile, competent fatherhood, we apologize and sincerely congratulate you on being the best darned father any owlet could hope for. (Oh, of course M&M were our first loves...) But Mel, we salute you: Job Well Done and continuing...got three out of the box, three wanting out of the box, and you and Syd have put on quite the Parenting Act! So, here's to Melvin*! Thank goodness we all got your name right! {SkatrPic}

(not his REAL name, see comments below)

MOD Wedding Portrait!

Dear MOD Family,

Since Richard is embedded with an elite Bedouin Tribe for protection in the desert, our wedding
was so Traditional I missed it, lurking beneath his azure Lawrence-of-Arabia robes as mortars exploded
around us! WAR: don't care for it. But, check out his awesome scabbard> he is learning to move with the stealth of the Desert Wind: In fact, they call him "Richard of the Dessert" because he carries so much baklava tucked into his turban...apparently the honey gives his hair that special "Ooh, Baby, BABY!" style.
(See far right? That's HIM!) But, the real star of the show was Popie, generously flown over on Lor-I-Kink's personal F/A 18 Hornet just for us! PopiePie was bathed, scented, groomed, and arrived sitting proudly atop a stunning white Arabian stallion, barking greetings to every camel he met! (Thank you, Lor-I-Kink... SQUEEE!)
A celebration unparalleled in the annals of MOD weddings! And the Bedouin just LOVED the guinea pig
Turkish coffee cups y'all sent us! MODS, we couldn't have done it without you, and we left our coffee cups
with our hosts to thank them for their world-renowned hospitality: even Popie got his own felafel! And, as
soon as he returns home, Richard can hardly wait to sit in front of our laptop on Friday Molly Movie
Night for hours, watching things he does not understand. Like the wild STREAM of the Black Sheep,

avatars, two secret agents we CAN SEE, owly names, "Molly Was A Common Barn Owl" songs, and why PapaPie has to be chaperoned and never left alone up in the balcony!

(So, Kestra and Sacto, Please let him win the Door Prize!)

3 On The Roof and A Big Treat To Boot!

^^^^^^Press for Close-Up ^^^^^ Three on the Roof and One Head Peeking Out and Looking Up and Looking Left and Looking Right and Looking Down then wings were flapping all AROUND! When Mama came! Or was that Dad? Who really cares, such fun We Had!

The Owlets still don't seem to know, That if they flap they gonna GO! Up High into the air so bright, Pretty owlet Soft and Light, Soars through space with Wonderous Ease, then glides home on her Magic Breeze... {SkatrPics}

DID SOMEBODY SAY "PARTAY ON?!"

Fly, Hop, Jump, Flutter, Step Here, Step There, Step Everywhere, Flap Your Wings and...
WOOT-WOOT
to da HOOT-HOOT!

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SATURDAY NIGHT-FLIGHT SCHOOL!

^PRESS ABOVE^ FOR A CLOSER LOOK^

What a night! Can you see them in Flight? Takes Courage, Takes MIGHT> To Get it all RIGHT!
Fly to Moon, Fly to Stars, Fly to roof: TAKE OFF FOR MARS!
The sky is yours, the night is young, so flap and hop and HAVE YOUR FUN!




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"AS THE CLUTCH TURNS..."

"Mattie, don't lean out the door, it makes you look so desperate...for the love of Owls, STOP!"

"How many times we gotta tell ya, STOP IT! Nobody is worth this!"
"He's not coming, is he?" AND, like horks through the hourglass...
Another chapter of "As The Clutch Turns..."

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Waiting For Mattie's First Date to Arrive...

"I know he'll come. He'd better after all that time I spent preening this afternoon: Stupis boys!"

"Where IS HE? The others are starting to look out the door for him, too, how humiliating!
Come ON, already!"

"One day I will grow up to be as beautiful as Matilda and we shall all wait together for MY prince to arrive and fly away with me...sigh...and it shall be a star-studded night, cloudless, warm, romantic, and he will admire my talons and offer to give me a foot rub...I shall be wearing only a hint of my feather boa by the time that night arrives, and I shall be ravishing!
When I grow up..."
~!~
 ...and so, The Clutch Waits With Mattie...WILL he arrive? or will he NOT!

Stay tuned to: "As the Clutch Turns..."

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Inspired By Her Big Sister's Saturday Night Pre-Preen...

Dinky finally has her talons done and is so happy and proud of herself! We hope Dinky turns out to be a "she-Dink" or somebody's gonna have some 'splaining to do!

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It's Saturday Night and Mattie is Preening...

"Why don'tcha just paint your talons ratty red while you're at it?"
"Well, she sure thinks she's hot TONIGHT!"
"I know, wonder what Mom's gonna think of her going out and not telling us where?"
"Mom gonna find her and Papa gonna give her date a whoopin' I bet!"
"Yeah, just cuz she's the oldest shouldn't she be setting a better example for us?"
"Nah, that's an old wives' tale..."
"Well, the way she going at her tail, she gonna be an old wife before she's even fledged!"
"True that. Tsk! Tsk!"


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Is Three in a Nest Better than Two in the Hand . . . ??

Well, can't say three in a bush because these are nested in a chandelier!! ROFL. Their mom, Emma, made her nest in a metal chandlier on the host's patio in California. The middle chick is the orphan, Hope, who is being successfully raised by her surrogate mother. All three are all are thriving and close to fledging. I know they aren't owls (for the critics in the balcony) but they are so darned adorable!

Interesting Development at Syd's Box

"Whoooooo is that looking in at us from outside our box?? Yikes!! Mama, Papa, save us!! Maybe if we close our eyes, we don't have to be afraid!!"

[Screen shot compliments of the photographic skills of "Secret Agent 255"]

SINCE I HAD TO CHANGE MY NAME, ANYWAY...

                CLICK ON BOTH PICS ^^^and below! TO SEE HOW HAPPY RICHARD IS!
                                                    

 "OOOH, Baby, BABY!"

Dear Friends, It has been brought to my attention that cavorting with dear Richard has brought security risks to my Avatar and secret identity on our Stream. Since I had to go on and change my name and endure countless airport pre-nuptial "Pat-downs" (hee-hee) and Security Checks it just seemed  "the Right Time" so Richard flew in from Somewhere Far, Far Away and we have made IT official! Jon Stewart, an old flame, did not take the news so well, but Jon, you are already Happily Married with Kids so, really, can you just GET OVER IT ALREADY?!

Now, if you see me on the Stream with a new name (same ole 'Apolo-spanky avy, tho!) it is because Richard and I have united in the Biblical Way. (HE was already in the Middle East, it's almost Passover, and I had to change my name:  definitely 3 Signs from Moses.)

For those (every one a'ya's) wishing to send wedding gifts, we are registered at GuineaPigs~R~Us, not to mention we will be holding our reception when hell freezes over. All are warmly welcome to attend,
please wear formal attire:  Hell requires coat and tie.
MAZEL TOV!
!~!

(P.S. What is a Restraining Order?)

Molly Movie Night Announces Another Clutch of Winning Captions!

Oh Look Carrie! The MODS sent you some Coffee and for me, some Ratty Red Talon Polish!

(gmarch)

Congratulations on your winning caption, Glenna!

Our other finalists were:

Carey, there are only 2 ways for you to travel. Get in the trunk or learn to fly.

(msrums_nc)

Carrie, no you can not play with Mr. Carrot!! Please turn around and put him back in Carlos's time capsule!

(Lashes73)

Aargh! So ye think ye can steal me wee mousie treasure, do ye? Not while I have me trusty sidekick watching over it. Now, off with ye, before we make ye walk the posing ledge!!! Aargh!

(Gizmomma)

And… thanks to Kestra for the fractured screen shot that inspired all that craziness!

"I CAN FLY! I CAN FLY!"

"Space...the final frontier." WELL spoken, Captain Kirk, except when the spaceship forgets to leave the flight hangar. Mattie looks on as her sister recognizes that the need for flight is surpassed only by the need for space in which TO fly! In this case, "Help, my wings are out and I can't retract them..." attracts only a "What the --- are ya doin' anyway?" glance from Mattie...eventually, the fledgeling was able to regroup, wings intact, her dignity...mmmm, questionable.  "C'est La Vie, Come Fly With ME!"
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They're Coming Out

Sydney's owlets made the great escape for the first time on Thursday, April 14th. Lots of pausing at the door, jockeying for position, and finally a walk around the porch. Is that Sydney on the roof or an owlet?? We shall find out soon.

Screen shots by 1SkatrPie (although Yum Yum is claiming the glory)

The Little Rascals of Owlceanside

What on earth is this baby looking at? Could it be me? Maybe it hears something and is wondering what's happening outside? As the saying goes, "Position is everything in life."