HAPPY NEW WEEK!
I hope everyone has a wonderful, safe, and healthy week! And, I hope your weather is warmer than it is here! I had thick frost last night.
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I'm editing my post to add this link.
I have these Carolina Wrens on my patch all year long. I also have House Wrens in the summer and Winter Wrens in the winter. Many of the wren pairs build multiple nests. I have wren nests everywhere this time of year. My parents and my ancestors all revered wrens and built houses for them. I can't dig down into the earth anywhere without finding fragments of wren houses.
I just found a quote I had put by, to reread later: it seems apt in some way today.
"I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty -- and said 'Do the best you can with these, they will have to do.' And mostly, against all odds, they're enough." From Travelling Mercies by Anne Lamott, U.S. writer.