Bye Bye Birdie

Today is cleaning day. Inside and out. Jeremy was inside cleaning while I was outside cleaning. I mowed the yard but am leaving the weed eating to Jeremy. The weed eater is not my friend. I also pulled a few weeds and added a little mulch to the front bushes. The yard looks good. Our trees look really good even though we basically leave them to their own defenses. Our neighbors add all kinds of "tree food" to their trees and still can't get them to grow. I think sometimes you just need to let nature do it's own thing.

Speaking of nature...

I cleaned the front door and wanted Jeremy to see how good it looked. He came out and admired my work. (btw, I used this stuff called Awesome and let me tell you, it is Awesome...cleans anything. Thanks for the tip, Jean!) Okay, back to the nature part. Jeremy was either still admiring the newly clean front door or doing something else outside, when he beckoned me to come outside. We had a visitor. A bird was at our front door. In the corner of our entry way, facing the brick. Poor little thing looked disoriented and out of breath. I sat down on the door stoop and the bird came right up next to me practically climbing on my lap. Then birdie tried to get between me and the door. I got up and birdie flew (barely) away, just past the sidewalk, and started flopping from side to side. It was very upsetting. I stood there and watched this poor little bird take it's last breath. Ewwww. I didn't see any injuries so I'm not sure why it died. Luckily, Jeremy did the dirty deed and took the birdie away.

Bye bye birdie.