Uuuum it’s Monday! All day long. But how blessed are we to make it to the beginning of a new week. New week, new goals, new reasons, new eeeeerthing lol. So working from home has its advantages. One being, my office in an upstairs small bedroom that we turned in to my office space. I love it. It’s pink and filled with retro decor. I love being in there at the front of the house where I can look out the windows all day while I work. I have tons of birds in my yard. There are several birdfeeders out there so they hang around. There’s always plenty to eat. Last summer I purchased a feeder that suctions on to my actual window. It allows me to see them so well. I have a big fat redbird (cardinal to be correct but, we’ve always called them redbirds) who comes every day to my window and eats. He is loud and chips as if to say “I’m out here, you see me?” I always talk to him and tell him I do. It just makes my day move a little easier. I often wonder if daddy sent him to me. There’s an old wise tail that says cardinals appear when someone in heaven is watching over you. I like to believe things like that. It brings me closer to dad.
Last week, I pulled in the driveway after going to the grocery store and I noticed that my birdfeeder on my window was sideways. Like one side had dropped down. It’s a deal to get over to that window so I figured I would fix it when we refill it. We usually do that once a week. There is a huge blue jay that often feeds there so I assumed it knocked it down. Well………I was wrong. The next day I was in deep though in front of my computer trying to contemplate the case in front of me, when I hear this awful racket (that’s a word for noise for y’all that aren’t from Tennessee lol). I looked up and there was a big fat squirrel sitting inside of my birdfeeder having a feast! HOW DID HE GET IN THERE!!! That feeder is in the center of an upper window in my office. It is up off of the ground and there are no trees around to help him over there. Thankfully my son wasn’t sleeping that day because I jumped up and squealed. (My son works nights so he sleeps during the day). He came running and thought it was the funnies thing ever. I, on the other hand, was mad. I don’t like things messing with my birds and the fat bastard was in my feeder. My son took a photo, laughed, and said “well mom he’s gotta eat too”. I mean there’s a huge walnut tree in the back yard that he lays in to every day.
After fixing the feeder and making it perfectly straight I filled it full of birdseed and a few hours later my birds came. I just knew there would be no way the little rouge could get up in there as I moved it up higher. I was wrong. The next morning my son was standing in the doorway telling me tales of his worknight and he jumped and said “LOOK” and pointed at my window. There was the little devil. He had his claws dug in to my screen making his way to the birdfeed. So he was climbing the brick and used my screen . Thats how he got in there. I banged on the window and he just looked at me.
I promise I’m not anti-squirrel. I just like my birds in my feeder. I’ve now come to terms that I can’t keep him out. Now I just look at him and shake my head. He comes every day. Usually mid-morning. He has his feast and then he lays in there and takes a nap. For real! He takes a nap. He keeps my birds away for about 2 hours and then he leaves (I’m sure to go to the backyard and eat walnuts). My son still thinks it’s hilarious. If he’s going to stay, I guess I will name him at some point.
Now you know my squirrel story. Thats one of the joys of living in the country. We have animals. We also have deer, racoons, snakes, and a fox but those are for a different story. I hope you had a laugh with this tale. Protect your birdhouses and I hope you have the very best evening.
P.S. Photos for your viewing pleasure and sorry about the bad word in the content but he really is a little bastard! lol
Always…….Brooke
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