July update:

Well, everybody must have prayed very well. I was able to keep my house and got the permit reissued. I was dismissed from the court case in Fresno. And I was able to get community service and completed that and turned in my paper work today. Things are definitely improving in my corner. Thanks to all your prayers.

By the last Thursday of June, I had been issued by permit again. Woo Hoo! Last week more framing was happening. Contractor doesn't expect any more delays so work should really start to progress beginning on Monday. I am planning a house warming party (no pun intended) September 6th and was told by the contractor confidently that all work should be complete. So get your pet setters set up and come on by. I want to thank everyone for helping me through this turbulent time.

Keep up to date construction details at this site. http://picasaweb.google.com/couragee25/Construction And of course, I will put party online as well.

P.S. Kim in Tennessee took Charlie the Amazon and is helping a neighbor care for him. After many tests, he was cleared as healthy by Dr. Olsen.
Maria and Kim,

Charley is doing really well and is settling in nicely. Yesterday he came out of his cage on his own and spent part of the afternoon sitting on the roof of his cage. He will let us give him food if we're slow in moving out hand to him, otherwise he gets scared of it.

We put a wood perch on top of his cage this evening and he's been running around all over it. He's even playing with the two toys that we hung from it for him. He has started to discover that wood is for chewing, I guess just hearing Kiko is enough for Charley to channel his inner cockatoo :)

He was really quiet at first, but has started to make a lot of little squeaks and chuckles when we are in the room with him. If we don't pay attention him enough he has one particular squeak that he uses to get us to turn and look at him. He loves playing a blinking game, where we copy his blinks, and he progressively makes them in a more complex pattern to see if we can keep up. He hasn't tried any new foods yet, but he's eating all of his seeds from his food bowl.

We'll keep you updated.

-Madeline and Albert
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