Getting Salty to eat his pellets

So Salty has dry pellets available to his all day, but he rarely touches them, except before bed time, when he uses them as a sort of bed time snack. Tonight, I mixed up some pellets with his nightly chop ( this weeks flavor - HOT. Kale Romain lettuce, carrots, and red and orange peppers and jalapeno, habenero and ghost peppers) and after they had soaked a bit, because my chop always comes out wet from the freezer, he chowed down on them!

The friggin chop is so hot, I have to remember to clean his beak and footies off , or Daddy will get nasty hot juice in his eyes or worse, on something else. Can you say Hot Johnson?

On a different note, my welcome home was fun. All Salty wanted to do is play, play play. Rough housing and peek a boo, which has become his favorite play exercise. And showed off his new words, Daddy and Hello Geri, and Tinker, and a bit of singing. LOL, almost as fun as when my kids were little, meeting me at the door! Oh, and allowing me to give hom scratchies... that's been a nice part of his Welcome Home routine. Geri was getting jealous, so I scratched her under her chim and neck too. She talks , too. "When are you paying bills?" and " Jesus, the trash is getting ripe. How about taking it out?" and look at that! No training was needed!

Geez, man. The delicate balance between birds and couples, right?
I can relate to the HOT part. The Mrs. feeds the bird hot chiles (she is sure he LIKES them) and then she wheezes and sneezes violently when they have their little trysts. I am supposed to be sympathetic.
Oh, the humanity.