In an earlier post, I mentioned that my husband assured me that there were buds on my recently planted lilac bush. I didn’t mention that I had asked him to not only look for signs of spring, but to photograph them and send them to me. He did. Imagine my surprise when I noticed in one of the shots that our Christmas wreath was still on the door. You remember that I left for California on January 2, having put all signs of Christmas away. Except for one. In my crazed preparations to leave, I missed the wreath. Don apparently didn’t ‘see’ that it was still there the entire time I was gone, even though he goes in and out of that door repeatedly. I immediately emailed him with an urgent request to ‘take it down!’
Fast forward a few days: Having not yet taken the wreath down despite my urgent request, Don opens the front door and a bird flies in the house. The bird panics and takes cover behind our umbrella stand. After a few moments, the bird flies back out. Don is amazed and shocked. We’ve never had a bird fly in the house before.
Shorty thereafter, Don remembers about the wreath and goes to take it down. There, on the backside of the wreath, he sees that birds have begun building a nest. Right between the wreath and our door. Of course, given how often we go in and out the front door, sometimes with the dogs, there is no way that nest and any eggs would have made it.
Lesson learned: Take your Christmas wreath down right after the New Year. Oh, and don’t leave it up to your husband.
Oh, I saved the sweet beginnings of the birds’ nest – its tucked safely in one of my McCoy planters.
How SWEET… love finding bird nests!
Hi! We, too, have had a bird fly into our house. Talk about weird!!! Luckily it flew out on its own, although we did try to use granddaughter’s butterfly net to persuade it on its way!
Hugs,
Stephanie
Angelic Accents
Love this post! How funny! Well, maybe not for the birds… :)
Poor hubby. I’m sure he thought it just looked so nice on the door, he didn’t want to part with it. My hubby would leave our Christmas decor up all year, if left up to him. :)
By the way, don’t remember if I said this before or not, but I love your funky blue specs!!! Great picture!!
Ruth
What a heartwarming post! Glad you could salvage the nest; they do make for a lovely vignette.
Happy Easter!
Dawn
Ha! I love seeing where birds decide to build nests. Luckily the bird flew out of your house about as quickly as she flew in. We had hawks build a nest in a tree in our front yard but for whatever reason, they’ve abandoned it. It has been about 3 weeks and we haven’t seen them around. My husband is really disappointed.
I know exactly what you mean Claudia. Coming home always feels strange…I’m always happy to come back, but it’s never to “my standards” which can lead to bad feelings. Guys really think they do their best while we are away, but it’s just not the same.
Enjoy your time with the “boys”.
Happy Easter
Love Claudie
xoxo
Oh my gosh, Claudia.. the bird must have been right on the nest when the door opened to have flown in! Thank goodness it made it out safely… That’s such a funny story! (Especially the hubby part!) Glad you got a nest out of it!… Donna @ An Enchanted Cottage