Bye-bye Birdies…

We had a bad storm last night; tornado watch and everything. The store was without power for nearly two hours…which left us closing it early, and unable to complete any of the work we had started. Today…we weren’t even able to play catch-up because of all the customers that came in.

But this morning I had started the day out rather discouraged to begin with. The nest looks unharmed for the most part, but it was completely empty. No baby robins…not even the parents giving their warning calls as I went near it. Nothing. The optimist in me wants to believe that they were big enough (I mean, they looked seriously cramped in there) to fly away on their own…but with winds and hail like what we had last night…you just never know.