The Realm

Chris is doing better. He's two days ahead of me. I'm better too but not really well enough to be up and doing anything. I lost some tadpoles during this which I'm not happy about. Transitioning from tadpole to frog always seems to have risks even if the tadpole was eating and healthy. I don't know why. I hate that. but the worst thing was today my parrotlet Melville died. I was well enough to do bird dishes. Chris went out to the patio to feed birds and tells me "Melville died." I couldn't believe it when I heard it. What? Why?? He was totally fine yesterday. What I can tell is a snake got on the patio, tried to eat him, couldn't and left. His feathers were matted with dried saliva but he has wide shoulders so the snake was not able to finish him. We looked everywhere but could not find the snake. We don't know how it got in or out on our patio. It's been a long time since something like this has happened. I'm very upset. Melville was a nice bird. He acted like a jerk a times and was loud but he did not bite and you could pet and grab him. I had plans to breed him with Nautica. Nautica liked him and he could talk a little bit. He could say "Ahoy Melville." I'm very upset. Sudden unexpected deaths are the worst. And I had forgotten how expensive parrotlets are. I don't know how I was able to afford him. I won't buy from the breeder I got him from since it was not a good experience but out of curiosity I went to her site. Yike!! How did I ever afford him? And even if I could get another one it would be a baby. I think adults are hard to find so that would be another year wasted waiting to breed. Parrotlets live longer than budgies at least so if I want to try again I can. When I get better I NEED to build the nestbox for Whitey and Minion. Time's wasting and I can't let the lacewing gene go extinct. I think I'm a lot better physically but I'm very crappy feeling right now after the loss of my bird. That snake better not show up because I will chop its head off.
EDIT: Snake has been dispatched.
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I got a call from the Pet Funeral home today and they told me Bullet was ready for pick up. I'm so glad it was when we were already out so my phone worked. Also a few days before my trip so I'm very glad it has all worked out.



Here she is. This is lovely. They did a great job and gave me this lovely little card. I had this little figure of Bullet I had bought years ago so it was perfect next to the tiny urn. The urn is about 3 inches tall. It still looks so nice. I'm very happy about this because now even if I move I will still have Bullet with me no matter what. I have a few more pics of the awesome things they did. Bullet's name is on the bottom too.

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This post is a bit late. Bullet died yesterday morning in my hands on Feb 1, 2019. If you saw her video on youtube I posted she got sick on the 31st. She was ok on the 29th as the video before shows her very spunky but she was acting a bit off. I'd had her in my art room to keep her warm as it's been so cold lately in the main living room. She'd been sleeping with us in our room. The night of the 31st she got really bad. I had her on her special medicated formula but had a feeling this time it would not work. She slept on my night stand. The morning of the 1st she was on the ground with her wings out on her tummy. The tumors between her legs had gotten huge too. She was kind of paralyzed. I put her on her back in my hands and petted her head. Told her she was the empress, my fave and that I loved her very much. "I love you" was the last thing I said to her then she died. It's been awful. I took her to a pet cremation place later that day. A first for me as I've always buried my pets before. But I wanted to keep her.

I then spent the whole day working on her tribute video in Sony Vegas movie studio platinum 11. And when I went to render it kept crashing saying there was a low memory error. I emptied a lot of files so my computer has enough memory. I tried making them into smaller shorter files and that didn't work either. I tried it on Chris's computer and same issue. I'm stuck and I had this lovely 13 minute video that should have gone up yesterday. I'm very upset over this. From what I've looked up seems it's an issue with it being a 32 bit program on a 64 bit computer.
https://www.moviestudiozen.com/doctor-zen-faq/337-out-of-memory-error-in-vegas-movie-studio

But the link for the update doesn't work anymore because Movie Studio is no longer owned by Sony. This new company does not support programs 12 or older so I'm really screwed. My last recourse to get this done in time is to learn Adobe Premier and that probably won't happen either. This is a complex video and just opening permier I have no idea how to do anything. And .vf sony files won't open on that or any other program I don't think. I'd have to make the video from the source videos from scratch again. This is not good. It has not been a good few days. I miss Bullet very much.
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