We took the birdhouses down from the garage roof and cleaned them. We took off the roofs and saw each house was stuffed full of feathers and grasses. There was hardly room for birds. A tiny space was left in which a family of four could snuggle in for the night. How long had it taken? Had they spent years getting the layers just right? The perfect mix of lint and string, feathers and weeds? Or did they spend each spring cleaning out the old and bringing in new?
We emptied the stuffing and repainted the little houses. We replaced the rotten wood with new, strong boards. This weekend, we'll put them back up and a new family can move in. They will have a lot of work to do to get it just right.
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