Photo from www.cagesbydesign.com
 

Many people ask how I like my CBD cages so I thought I’d write a little something about them (I have two of their indoor parrot cages which I chose to use photos of for this post.)

 

I’ve never drooled over a bird cage before or thought about putting one (aside from an outdoor aviary) on a wish list, either. That is, until I saw the ones Cages by Design offer.

 

My mother is an interior designer so I’ve always tended to care about what things look like inside the house (and even she doesn’t have one of their cages in her own!)

 

I’m also not the best with math or dimensions… so I picked my own CBD cages based on their look from the catalog and website and also by the size of the birds that they had pictured inside.

 

When we actually got the cages delivered, it was 20 boxes to our door for two cages! We ended up having to set them up in our Florida room (where they would stay) because we could not fit them through the doorway when they were fully assembled. That will be the last time I’m put in charge of picking and ordering the cages for our birds…

 

 Photo from www.cagesbydesign.com
 

Aside from the look of the cages being one of my favorite characteristics of them, there are also many other factors of these cages that I prefer and love and make it so that I will never go back to another cage, ever:

 

1) Full spectrum lighting: For indoor kept parrots, having full spectrum lighting is essential to their health (plumage included.) More information on full spectrum lighting health benefits.

2) Cage liners cut to fit: There’s no yanking out the colored newspaper so your bird doesn’t get ink poisoning, they provide custom cut cage liners made of wax paper (that your bird can’t reach through the grate of the cage anyway) for any size cage you buy. This has made changing cages go a lot faster.

3) Friendly feeders: Their very own invention of “friendly feeders” keep so much more food inside the food dish vs. out.

4) Plexi glass front: The plexi glass on the front of their cages makes it so that you can enjoy looking at your beautiful parrots without watching them throw food at you (though you can have your cage made custom however you prefer.)

5) All the bells and whistles: I ordered my cages with everything included – the feeders, the toys, the perches and swings. I loved being able to set up this whole new world for my birds in one sitting and not have to go to the store to decorate it. The perches are made of manzanita so they aren’t going anywhere.

6) Storage: I use to hate how when people came over to my home they saw bags upon bags of bird food along with a bucket of perches and toys waiting for their turn to be put in a needing cage. Now I have everything in nice bins that are hidden within my cages’ own storage space. (I will say again that looks are important to me in the home.)

7) Beautiful backgrounds: I never thought of giving a bird cage the background like you would give an aquarium but I feel that it really enhances the look of the cages (maybe just for the humans but I would think the birds appreciate the extra color it provides, too.)

 

And then there’s everything else about the cage that I also love. The more important thing is that my parrots love their cage even more than I do – and they do. This is only proven by witnessing them inside! I have a few videos up that you can find of my birds in their cages keeping themselves busy (my military macaw is famous for this.)

 

The only recommendations I’d have for possible enhancements or changes would be: A live water fall (oh, wait!) and for it to clean itself.

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We have been told if we “really” want to clean Green we should use vinegar or baking soda - but are they really Green? I have always used these for cooking but as I read Green blogs I started to use them for cleaning. They were less effective but I was grateful to know that I was not inhaling fumes. Although I soon realized they still had a carbon footprint since they need to be prepared, packaged and shipped and their bottles could eventually end up in a landfill or in our oceans. That’s when I discovered STEAM, which gets up to 300 degrees and has been proven to kill germs in 2 seconds with only WATER!

The alternatives we find on-line and in stores are in some cases not much better than toxic cleaners and they have the same carbon footprint. Plus, they do not kill germs as fast or as easy. I recently learned about Sargent Steam’s household steam machine which allows me to clean my home with two quarts of water in less than two hours! As well as their Microfiber line which is washable thus reusable. I would find myself throwing a new biodegradable product in the grocery cart and “hoping for the best”. Now, I find my home actually “feels” clean instead of just looking clean! I will share in my future blogs how easy it can be!

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let’s do a murder for the sake of it.

no …not actually do it…

just blog about it….

gotcha!!

I know I have a weirdly wired brain but it hasn’t gotten that weird…..yet!!

a murder straight up. no social ills, no deep analysis, nothing. just cover a murder that really does not point to anything underlying in our society…why? coz and I have said this before - this is Sandy Tenneti’s blog and there are no rules…

this was a murder that I wanted to cover when I started this blog but somehow this fell by the wayside over time. The murder of Priya Rajvansh.

you know, that actress from the 60’s and 70’s (?). Porcelain skin.Recluse. only 5 or 6 movies. Lived in with the celebrated director Chetan anand, the elder brother of Dev Anand. From England. that one….

so in a nutshell, the case goes like this- Priya, who was originally called Vera Singh, lived abroad most of her early life and unlike most Bollywood actresses, she trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ( they still have her portrait up at the Academy). Chetan Anand cast her in the seminal Haqeeqat and they both embarked upon a relationship. She would go on to star in mostly only his movies and her career spanned only 7 movies. so the story goes like this,

she was his girlfriend till his death. Now after his death, there was a financial dispute between Chetan’s sons from his first wife and Priya. Priya who was having financial problems wanted to sell off Anand’s bungalow and was trying to persuade the sons to agree. They decided then to bump her off. They gave the gruesome job to her maid, a woman named Mala who btw was having an affair with one of the sons, Vivek (how utterly salacious!). She and another helper chinnaswamy killed Priya on March 27, 2000.

The investigation revealed all. Her bitter brother accused the Anand family. Goldie and brother Dev Anand resolutely refused to believe that their nephews could do anything wrong. The courts however, did not agree. The brothers along with Mala and Chinnaswamy were sentenced to life imprisonment in July 2002.

I remember being transfixed by the case when news of it first broke. These were rich, educated guys (doon school and all, though i do not think that place-reminds me of the school i went to- is good at the end of the day). why would they do something as dumb as kill some1? everything you do gets found out in the end, didn’t they know that? how utterly foolish and they lost everything in the end, my teenaged mind sermonised to itself.

here is a video of her from youtube. has a striking resemblance with Katrina Kaif.

coming to our mythological character for the post, this too was someone I have been meaning to write about ever since the blog started but just never got around to but this blog post fits him perfectly. Kubera, the God of Wealth.

here is a an excellent article about Kuber- I love indiayogi!!

http://indiayogi.com/content/indgods/kuber.asp

Kuber, our man, was the grandson of brahma and he ruled over Alkapuri a fabulous city that housed all the stored up wealth of the earth. there are a lot of interesting stories about Kuber and I really exhort all you read to the indiayogi article.

however, after reading numerous stories about Kuber, the one thing that stood out to me was he had super bad luck when it came to siblings. Our man of money had for a step brother, the ultra mild, super passive and the oh-so-adjusting …..Ravana.

Ravana, our man, decided Lanka (Kubera’s earlier place of residence, also fabulously wealthy) was too good a thing to be had by his brother and very matter of factly wrested it from him. Poor Kubera. Bad luck with siblings was his karma and with Ravan as a brother what was really he expecting? So Kubera of the Blighted Luck went and built himself another place of residence.

Essentially from Manhattan to Beverly Hills.

Ravana, after discovering his elder brother’s pliable nature, had some fun with something very unique that Kubera had- his magic chariot called Pushpaka. Remember Sita’s abduction?

yep, that chariot’s sure seen some action.

Well, i guess when to comes to cars and men there are no filial relationships.

oh yeah…Mr Moneybags had a son who was betrothed to Rambha (ooh hot!see what happens when u have a rich daddy!) but our Ravana, the original bad boy, decided to screw his nephew and have his woman. angry, kubera’s son ,whom the internet gives no name, cursed Virility Personified to have his ten heads fall off the minute he tried the stunt again.

that’s why sita was under the tree all the time and not in his bed

Jeez! so u r lord of wealth but look at what you have to go through on the flip side! that’s the way life works…if you get something you have to let go of something.

guess what…i just realized today’s murder besides having money as the motive also has something else in common with Short- on- Luck Kubera: crooked siblings….

(oooohhhh…what a genius I am! …who would’ve thought of that!)

ps title of the blog stems from the fact that my mom was over and spent some time with me. literally translated into drove me insane with her OCD ways. everything neat and organized. sometimes at perfect right angles with each other. everything arranged according to sizes:largest to smallest. cleaning. decorating. cleaning. cooking. cleaning (no my apt isn’t that dirty, she has OCD!!). then her eyes fell upon my laundry bags and my soul left my body. let me get one thing clear- only ppl from a different planet like doing laundry. Earthlings DO NOT!!! South Indian Amma waged psychological warfare of the type that I have not experienced in some time until the offensive laundry bags were transformed into packets containing soft, Febreze smelling and Tide churned clean,clean,clean,clean,clean ( u get the message)…clothes.

Let’s forgive her. She’s a Virgo. It comes with the month.

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