open letter to nonhuman visitors
Dear Wild Birds
Thank you for delighting us with your visits to our yard, thank you for eating whatever the dogs leave in their bowls, it helps with the cleaning up. We love to see you in our trees, and love it even more when you make nests and decide to raise families near our own growing family. You are welcome to stay.
There are a few conditions to this that we wish you would take into consideration.
First of all, if you are going to raise your families in our roof, please do not choose a part of the roof near where our own family members sleep. You may not know it, but your claws on whatever you are scrabbling around on is noisy, and when you leave your children alone, they DO party, and they party hard. Their sining is AWFUL by the way, no offence, I just hope you give them vocal lessons so they sing as nicely as you do when they grow up.
The thievery also must stop. Those brightly coloured things on the clothes line, they are pegs, not ornaments for your nests. We need those to keep our clothes on the line.
Our clothes are also not toilets, please do not eat mulberries then relieve yourself on my white egyptian cotton bedsheets, the stains are very hard to get out.
I am happy to let you have 50% of the figs on our fig tree...you seem to know this...but that does not mean half of each individual fig.
Please take this into consideration.
Much love and respect,
Terris and family.
Thank you for delighting us with your visits to our yard, thank you for eating whatever the dogs leave in their bowls, it helps with the cleaning up. We love to see you in our trees, and love it even more when you make nests and decide to raise families near our own growing family. You are welcome to stay.
There are a few conditions to this that we wish you would take into consideration.
First of all, if you are going to raise your families in our roof, please do not choose a part of the roof near where our own family members sleep. You may not know it, but your claws on whatever you are scrabbling around on is noisy, and when you leave your children alone, they DO party, and they party hard. Their sining is AWFUL by the way, no offence, I just hope you give them vocal lessons so they sing as nicely as you do when they grow up.
The thievery also must stop. Those brightly coloured things on the clothes line, they are pegs, not ornaments for your nests. We need those to keep our clothes on the line.
Our clothes are also not toilets, please do not eat mulberries then relieve yourself on my white egyptian cotton bedsheets, the stains are very hard to get out.
I am happy to let you have 50% of the figs on our fig tree...you seem to know this...but that does not mean half of each individual fig.
Please take this into consideration.
Much love and respect,
Terris and family.