First off...UPDATE TIME!!!
It's been a little while since I last posted, and quite a bit has gone on. Well not really, but I'll pretend it's true. John was offered a job within an hour of his interview being done in Park City, UT. So in the next few months we will be moving up to Heber City, UT. I will still continue to work at my current job, because I love it so much and it is worth making the 45 minute drive.
Mo and Bear are doing great. Bear seems to be doubling in size every week. Mo...not so much. For some odd reason, she is afraid to eat out of their bowl. She never had a problem with it before, and Bear eats out of it just fine. We have to put food on the ground in order for her to eat. We think that's the main reason why she isn't growing very much (which to be completely honest, is fine by me because I love how small she is.)
We will be buying a car in the next couple weeks, so any advice on cars or somewhere good to buy (in Utah) would be very much appreciated!!
Now to the good part. Well, more like the sad I-am-going-to-H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks part.
Right outside our door we have an awning. On that awning, a hummingbird built it's nest.
John and I thought it was pretty cool! I mean, I've never really seen a hummingbird up close like this, nor this often! After a while, it was getting pretty annoying because every time that we would walk outside, the hummingbird would dive bomb and almost hit us. So much to the point that we would just stand inside and look out the screen door when we took the pups outside.
Well, today it was BEAUTIFUL outside and I wanted to enjoy the afternoon. So I sat out on our front steps. Down the hummingbird came, quite a few times, so close that I could feel the wind from it's wings against my face. Seriously?? I can't enjoy my nice afternoon and you have to ruin it?? Thanks dumb bird...
So..I stood inside with the screen door propped open. This stupid hummingbird was so persistent that it almost flew into our apartment a few times!!
So what do I do because I'm so fed up with it??
Knock down it's nest.
I know. I know. "How could you do that Caren?! Do you not care for animals at all?!!"
No, I do care for animals. But when they constantly ambush me and invade my personal space, something has to change. And I'm not going to move. So the hummingbird had to.
Unfortunately, it was so high up that I just had to knock it down. Off I went to go get the broom. With a few smacks, down it came.
"CRACK!"
Uhhhhhh...what???
Yep. There were two baby eggs in the nest. My heart skipped a beat.
"I AM GOING TO HELL!! I JUST RUINED THIS HUMMINGBIRD'S LIFE!!"
As you can tell, I was devastated. I felt so incredibly horrible. I called John immediately and told him the tragic tale of the hummingbird babies. He thought it was funny how sad I had become over the loss of these two birds. I mean, who wouldn't get sad?! That's what I thought..Not only did he think it was funny, he liked to rub in the fact that he wouldn't knock down the nest due to the possibility of eggs being in the nest. Thanks babe. You always were better than me ;)
Never again.
Never again will I touch a bird's nest.
