Bad Idea

My wife recently noticed a blue bird flitting around the back yard and decided that maybe we should encourage their presence. So while out shopping one day she bought a little bird house to encourage the blue birds to take up residence in our yard. We looked around in the back yard and thought we found a pretty good place for the house, right on the end of the swing set. No one swings on the swing set anymore and it looked like a pretty good height. We often see birds perched there, including the occasional hawk. So I pulled out the ladder and attached the bird house to the end of the swing set with the included screws.

About a week later, well, you can see what happened. Lucy, the fat one that rarely climbs anything anymore, had made her way up to scratch the edge of her cheek on the bird house. I didn't catch the picture, but yesterday she had her paw in the hole rooting around inside. As she pulled her paw out, a little bird flew out and away, barely missing mealtime.


You can see one of the omnipresent deer in the bottom right corner looking on as I snapped the picture. Here's a closer picture so you can actually tell that Lucy is a cat.


Note: add to to-do list, move bird house!