A bird in the hand...

Don and I went over to the house today to "clean it up" a little before we had our first official guest! It's amazing how messy the workers can be during the week!

When I walked into the game room I was startled by a bird! Yes, a bird! It was perched on the window sill...except it wasn't outside, it was inside! It didn't attempt to fly away even when Don walked up to it. Luckily he had brought along some gloves so he put those on and gently picked up the bird. It was obvious that the bird had flown into the window. We needed to put the bird somewhere that Tess wouldn't get it so he took it outside and placed it on some tree branches that Don, Lewis and Bill (our neighbors) need to cut up for firewood! I watched it for a while then left to do something. Later when I looked...the bird was no longer there! Don't know if it flew away or fell to the ground, but it was gone. Later I went out to the garage to investigate something Tess was barking at. At first I thought it was a frog (that was from across the room) until I got closer and saw that it was another bird! It was the same species of bird and this bird didn't survive it's crash into the window! I hope they get the garage doors and the rest of the doors and windows in pretty soon so we aren't responsible for the decline in the bird population around Greers Ferry!

After a quick stop at the grocery store...we headed back to the motorhome. We were waiting for our friends, Glenda & Ray Roe to arrive for a visit! Luckily we arrived at about the same time they did! After they got pulled in and settled, we packed up the car with some chairs and a drink (or two) and headed back over to the house! We officially welcomed them as our first guests (sorry Rick & Joanne, Bill & Kathy, Kim, Tim, Ashleigh & Mom...when you all came over we only looked around and never sat down and made it "official")! We enjoyed our visit and the sunset but once
the sun began to go down...we needed to head home! The house is starting to really come together and we enjoyed having our first official guests visit! Hope we have many more friends and family stop by!

You can check out the progress of the house here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/vickileith