Things you don't know....

So....there's something we haven't told you. No, nothing crazy or insane like THAT. We have this problem. And it's a big problem, but also rather small. Annoying, really. There's this bird. A robin (Brent called him Robby, I call him Bob). And he likes our house. A LOT. And he won't leave. Ever. It started last Tuesday. We came home for lunch and hear this banging, pecking really, coming from the front of our house. We creep around the corner and this robin is pecking at an octagonal window offset from our front door. He flys at it and pecks, over and over and over. At first it's amusing. We take pictures, videos, laugh at it. But he never stops, and that gets old. So we put some shoes on the inside of the window, and that works during lunch. But when we get home that night he's back at it, over and over again. By 6:30 am the next morning he was back. So we hung a trash bag over the window and left for work. When we came for lunch....he was attacking our front door - and pooping all over the porch. Huh??? Over and over and over. He's rather bold. He'll fly to the roof while I'm out with Pippin and while we're in the yard he returns to attacking the windows until we go back in. He even pooped on a package that we got Friday. Nice. I was hoping Friday's hail would kill him, but nope, he was back on Saturday. By Sunday morning I had had it. I Googled "what to do if a bird won't stop pecking at your house" and found this article. Basically this idiot sees a competitor in our window (himself) and isn't going to stop until mating season is over. Fantastic. I papered our entire front door in white paper. Not 15 minutes later the m-fer was now flying at our sidelights. I hate him. We got CDs and a windchime, strung them up and hung them in front of the sidelights, on the outside. I refuse to paper the sidelights. Pippin pushes back the curtains to watch for us, and I'm not taking his window away. These distractions momentarily stopped him, but he would sit on the railing of our porch - and continue to poop. We wrapped packing tape all along the railings so it would be too sticky for him to land. SUCCESS! We were feeling pretty happy about all this.....until yesterday. We came home for lunch and instantly saw it. All the marks and scuffs on our BACK door. Our front door and porch is totally ghetto-ed out, and now this a-hole has moved to the back of our house. He's now attacking our 3 back windows and back door. Sun up to sun down. He has no fear of us, he just sits in our window sill, pecking and pooping. I talked to a neighbor tonight as I walked back to our house after my run and he is having the SAME problem. We can't decided if it's the same bird or not. Our bird never seems to leave, though. Anyway, Brent and I have a plan for this bird. He's had fair warning, and Pippin is about ready to lose his mind - he has to listen to this crap ALL day. I'm not sharing my plan, but if you understand my frustration I'm thinking you'll see what direction we're headed in. After all, what kind of father leaves his nest all day for retarded house pecking. He should be feeding them and building a posh nest.

Oh yeah, I ran today. A normal 6 miles. Annoying people blocking the sidewalk, 8:45 pace for 6 miles. I was lonely because Brent didn't feel good so I had to run alone. It would have been fun to have him help me run into some old hags that wouldn't get out the way. So I had to elbow them by myself and that's not nearly as fun.

Anyway, talk to you later!! Make sure you check out Running Jayhawk's crazy dream! HA!

Rachel

Exercise-
Monday - 1 mile am walk with Pips, 50 minutes toning/stretching (abs & thighs)
Tues - 1 mile am walk with Pips, 6 mile evening run