Three Boys and a Girl

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

4 boys and a girl. . .and 6 birds

Otherwise entitled, "Now What??"


We have some tenants in our dryer hose! We've heard them for a few weeks in and out, and I looked in today to see if I could clean out all the stuff they had brought in, and voila. . .


I haven't used my dryer for over a week because I was nervous to hurt someone, but now I really need to do laundry, and I'm too much of a softy to just evict them. . . Any suggestions???

posted by Christine @ 10:57 AM  

10 Comments:

  • At 5/13/2008 1:22 PM , Blogger Mary said...

    You were there first.

     

  • At 5/13/2008 8:14 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

    Dad A - Get another dryer hose.

     

  • At 5/13/2008 8:38 PM , Blogger Christine said...

    I got a new hose today, and we're going to route it out the window above the dryer and leave the old hose and nest where they are. I wonder if the bird will be able to roost enough with all the noise we make (and now with the laundry noise) because every time we go into the laundry room the bird flies out. We'll see if the eggs hatch or not.

    It's kinda cool though to have this happening in our house, in a way. :)

     

  • At 5/13/2008 9:40 PM , Blogger Kari said...

    Wow! That is so neat to see a well built egg nest. I hope they do okay with the slight change in their living situation. Are those robin eggs..do you know what type of birds?

     

  • At 5/14/2008 10:33 AM , Blogger Micah Olson said...

    I am pretty sure that UT lease agreements have a "no subletting" clause. You may also need to check city zoning to see if animals are allowed...

    Boy you guys are nice, I would have probably gotten rid of them...

     

  • At 5/16/2008 7:46 AM , Blogger Rob said...

    They are probably starlings that built that nest, and starlings are the carp of the bird world. I would burn the nest just to make sure that there is no spontaneous generation of more starlings, because they never go away.

     

  • At 5/16/2008 7:53 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

    whoa. How did Jonathan and Seth react? Or did you even let them see it...

     

  • At 5/16/2008 10:07 AM , Blogger Christine said...

    We've got chickies!

    Rob- easier said than done! Carp or no carp - I don't think I could do it.

     

  • At 5/16/2008 10:44 AM , Blogger Christine said...

    Whoops. False alarm. I heard a bunch of different chirps, so I thought it was the chicks, but it must have been just a visitor, or the momma in a different mood. . . No chicks yet.

     

  • At 5/18/2008 6:58 PM , Blogger sstar said...

    Gross..... Not sure why. But to me, that's just gross. The eggs are beautiful, but the rest.... ugh. Matt would want to keep them. Have you told the boys?

    Maybe my disgust leads back to the days when we were small and we'd find a dead bird or a feather or a baby bird and mom would tell us (in a life-and-death tone) to NOT TOUCH IT because it might be "diseased". Maybe that has stuck with me more than I thought... :)

     

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