Martha on Monday: Canaries

Mini Martha is a term we use frequently around here. If Lee cooks an amazing saturday night dinner, I'll call him mini-martha (although to be accurate he would be very, very ,big martha). If I bake cupcakes he calls me mini-martha. However behind every joke is a grain of truth. The term came around when we first moved in together. We went shopping to buy some of our first "joint" purchases. We didn't agree on anything everything. During one particular trip, Lee asked me why I wanted to buy that chandelier and not thinking I said "because Martha has a big one just like it", so from that point on we've joked about mini-martha moments.

One of our most literal interpretations, would be our canary Carson. Martha has a huge canary cage full of beautiful red-factor canaries. We have a smaller cage with just one canary. When we decided we wanted a little birdy we did a lot of research. We didn't want one that constantly made squaking noises, but we did like chirping. We also wanted a lower maintenance bird, large birds and other soft billed birds tend to be a little more work then hard billed birds such as canaries and other finch breeds.
Canaries sing beautifully, however it's the male canaries that sing not the females.

Eventually I would love to have multiple canaries in a canary cage just like Martha's but for now I am happy being a mini-martha with my Canary Carson.