2005apr08. I’m trying to decode peeptalk. Three peeps means, as far as I can figure out, “something is happening.” Four peeps means “something is really happening!” The sessions are not going well. Sometimes my replies get them in a very talkative state, and I’m not sure why. They will try to climb the waterer to get closer to me to either give hugs or peck my eyes out, smoosh up against the wall closest to me, etc. But then when I put my hand down there – even if it’s holding delicious grass – they will peck at it and “bite” it, though at this stage their beaks have the compression power of half of a clothespin. Then sometimes when I talk to them they’ll run around the crib, and flap their little one-inch wings (which eventually can grow up to a total of about five feet across). “Jesus, he’s talking again! Run around to distract him! Flap! Flap to escape!”
