When we first got here, there was a dirty, empty bird feeder in the backyard. I’m not sure Shay knew he had it. It took us a week to notice it. But once we did, we went out, bought bird food and set it in one of the trees back there. For the first few days we didn’t have any visitors. But yesterday we got 2 and today we had 6. Eager to keep these new friends, Richard and I headed out to buy bird houses!
We stopped at Lowes first since we wanted to pick up some cheap fencing to keep Koda out of the dirt. We found that, and 2 different types of bird houses. We weren’t thrilled with the selection, so we got the fence and went to Michaels. They had so many bird houses! We each picked our own, debated over cute knick knacks to add, decided no, then ran home to paint them.
The brown and green one is mine, and the yellow and blue one is Richard’s. I know I said we didn’t get little things to put on them, but I lied. Richard got a little fence to add to his. I’m going to add things later. :)
So yeah, all painted, we went to find a place to put them…..hrm. We found some pieces of wood, glued and nailed our houses on them and tried to put them in the ground. Except we don’t have a shovel. Back to Lowes! We also needed more fencing. By the time we got home and got everything put up, it was too dark to take pictures. But I’ll take some tomorrow.
We’re really happy with our little houses and we hope the birds are too.
