Bluebirds                                             click to enlarge

“Lets go up early you said. Lets get up there before the rest of them so we can get the best nest site. It’ll be great, we’ll have the jump on everybody else, we ‘ll lay around and eat worms until everybody else gets here. Catch a few rays, fool around a little, have the nest half done before everybody else even gets started. So what are we doing Loogie? You’re shoveling snow so we got a place to sit so I don’t get a wet ass, I’m freezing my feet off. I can’t feel my toenails. I can’t get my feathers to lie down straight, I haven’t had a worm since Waco, this whole thing has been a monumental screw up since we left Boca Raton.”

“What about it Loogie? You still think this was a good idea. I musta had rocks in my head to listen to you. I shoulda listened to my mother, she had you pegged. A dumbass she said. She didn’t know the half of it. Next year I’m coming up with Alonzo, at least he likes to stop once in a while, hang out at the beach, catch fireflies at sunset. When’s the last time you stopped and caught fireflies, I’ll tell you when. Never, Loogie, never.”

“I suppose its going to snow like this until June. My sister stayed in Tucson, said it was really nice. Never snows there Loogie, it’s 71° there for gods sake! She said everyone goes out for worm fries on the weekend and then hits Rico’s for Pina Coladas. Do you see a Rico’s around here Loogie? I didn’t think so. No we’re going to stay here in the snow until my pinfeathers stick together and watch it snow some more. I’m sick of this Loogie. S – I – C – K of it. And one more thing….”

Sometimes it doesn’t pay to be the early bird.