Strawberries and our new pet

We now have a Chipping Sparrow mom on our front porch. We noticed a lot of activity from two little birds for the past week or so and on Saturday night we wandered onto or porch where they had been working and discovered the nest. Saturday evening there weren't any eggs inside, but by Easter, the little Momma bird was sitting on the nest a lot. So Monday afternoon while she was gone, we quickly got a picture of the inside of her nest. Two little eggs. Yay, the boys can watch her through our front door windows and are anxiously waiting to have baby birds squawking. Braxton just can't believe that they would use the fake trees as a home, but we keep telling him how smart that they were for selecting our porch because when it rains they will be protected and safe, and they won't have to worry about the wind knocking the nest out of the tree either.


















The strawberry patches here are open and ready. We have had quite a lot of rain here lately and I promised the boys that when the patch was open we would go. After a few rough weeks here with tornadoes and quite a bit of rain we finally were able to have a morning where it was clear until about 11 am we decided to go as quickly as we could. We brought a little neighbor with us and the kids had a blast just eating. Yum! Can't wait to eat the pie tonight for dinner.