In Our Backyard

Saturday afternoon was a sort of lazy day around here after all the busyness of the week. Gracen was playing in the pool; Jeff and I were getting dinner ready to put on the grill. Jeff looked out the kitchen window and called my attention to something in our big oak tree.

This is what we saw:

Two of them, actually.
We were able to get Gracen's attention. She quickly (and surprisingly quietly) got out of the pool to look at our two little visitors. They appeared to be very young and alone. We watched them play in and around the tree for a while. After a bit, they finally came down and went to the flower bed next to our neighbor's house.

They sat in the flower bed and ate the dog food that Gracen threw to them. Soon, they climbed up the house and disappeared. By the time they left, Gracen had given them names, Burger and Chick (haven't got a single clue where those names came from) and was wanting to help them get back to the woods so they wouldn't be "squished" by a car.

Never a dull moment...