Our very good friend Al stayed up very late on Thursday night before we left and built us one of his beautiful, custom birdhouse. It has TON of features:
- The rock face on the front of the house matches the chimney on the back of the house
- Hand sawn cedar roof
- Aluminum roof underlayment (for better protection from the precipitation
- Trap door at the bottom for ease of cleaning
- Contoured roof
- Hang-ability
Lorena and I have an excellent pair of binoculars to watch birds (big fans of the cardinals in North Carolina) and we both come from generations of bird-watching families. We always put up a bird house shortly after we move to a new place along with a humming bird feeder or two, so this is the perfect gift for us. That Al made it himself is icing on the cake. I will have a place of prominence on our back porch or in a hanger down in the yard–Lorena and I are negotiating that between each other right now.
Thank you Al and Jill (for letting him stay up late to finish this!).
Wow! What a beautiful and thoughtful gift. I went to Arkansas to visit my brother and his family (as well as to celebrate a nephew’s wedding and a niece’s graduation from paramedic school) and I purchased them a birdhouse from a second hand store before i left. They have such a lovely sloping backyard that backs up to a stream and I enjoyed my morning coffee watching the birds visit their trees and feeders. The cardinals were amazing! I saw many species of birds that I have never seen in California. It was a memorable trip.