What the Hawk??

What the Hawk??

June 19, 2011

We have this nest on our drain pipe. The babies hatched recently and we have been watching them grow and the mommy feeding them. Yesterday, this giant hawk (or falcon or whatever it was) dive bombed it and knocked it off to try and get the babies. The babies went flying to the ground. While the mommy and daddy continued attacking and dive bombing the head of the hawk, we got the nest (over the fence at the neighbors) and picked up the 3 babies, and carefully placed them back in the nest. When the hawk finally left, we prayed hard that the mommy and daddy would find the nest on our grill platform (since there was no way we could secure it back on the drain pipe). Thank goodness they came back. When I woke up this morning, I found that the nest had flipped over. Babies were ok, so I flipped it back and moved them in a bit to make it more secure. All are doing well. Whew!

(I actually caught the little mom attacking his head)

Stake Conference

Richard G Scott came for an unexpected stake conference today. It was wonderful and the girls stayed to shake his hand.

Getting back on our feet

The carpet guys showed up Thursday morning and were done only 6 hours later and it looks amazing. We spent the next few days taking the nails out of baseboards, putting the baseboards back up, and trying to get the rooms put back together.

We are all exhausted but its coming along. We are preparing to do the garage sale next weekend.

(yes, this is where she actually fell asleep!)