Spring Cleaning

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I’ve been spring cleaning the bird cages. That means taking off the aprons, moving and scrubbing perches, washing each bar, and cleaning every nook and cranny with a toothbrush. It’s amazing how much stuff accumulates around the nuts and bolts that hold the perches to the cage.

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I decided to do one cage a day this time, instead of trying to do a marathon cleaning. It took 2 to 3 hours to do each cage and the wall and floor area around it. I cranked up the tunes and the birds and I had a grand old time dancing and singing along.

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I finished the last cage yesterday at about 1pm, then vacuumed up the stray seed on the floor and finished washing that. By the time Mark and I went upstairs to watch TV with the birds you would never know that I had vacuumed at all! Not only that, but Alex had decided to play in his papers and there was a huge ball of them in the corner of his cage and strips of paper on the floor. Ah well – at least it smelled clean! There’s nothing like the sweet, kinda fruity smell of a clean bird room – I love it!

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Cathy