Why didn't I take a picture?

What a lovely afternoon I had with my friends who came to my house to play cards this afternoon. Linda provided flatbread pizza and I made a fruit salad. We had creamsicles  for dessert..very refreshing on this hot day. We played in the sunroom which has a window air conditioner which was greatly needed since it got above ninety today. We played a game called Five Crowns. It's a special deck that can be bought on Amazon. It's easy to learn and fun to play. 

  Since I don't have any pictures let me tell you a story. We were talking the other day about why robins and other birds like to build their nests so close to a house, sometimes on a porch light. Mary Jo told a story about a robin at her house that insisted on nesting on her light despite their best efforts to discourage her. Her husband finally moved the nest over to a platform that he built between two branches. She must have liked her new home because she completed her nest there .

  We had a robin this year who nested in our climbing hydrangea by the courtyard. I kept telling her it wasn't a good spot.  There is some activity out there at times. She bopped in and out first with nesting materials and then with food for her babies. I was fearful that when the babies fell from the nest that our cat would find them. But it wasn't the cat at all. One day I saw Sadie chasing something along the ground. I thought it was a chipmunk but it was of course a baby robin. I rescued it and Don out it back in the nest. The other baby scooted away safely. The next day mother robin and her brood had disappeared to a safer location.