More Saturday football... And new neighbors...

I am watching the LSU-Alabama game. Not sure who I'm rooting for. Don't like either team much, but figured it would be a good game, and so far at the half 14-14, it has been. The Tennessee-Wyoming game wasn't broadcast here (no surprise) so I had to go on the internet to see that my hapless Vols lost 13-7, the Homecoming game no less. I'm also wondering what I did all those years overseas with no football on Saturday television. I think I walked into town and did some shopping, which was probably a healthier lifestyle than hanging on the sofa eating snacks...

Along with football games come commercials. At first I made the naive assumption that if we got the commercial, we had the associated product here on the island. For example, I suffer through those stupid Sonic commercials with the nerdy couple eating their food in their car, dive bombing their biscuits into gravy and so on. But it did make me miss tater tots. So I look up Sonic on the internet and go to their store locator, to discover "there is not a Sonic within 1,000 miles of your location." Yeah, no kidding, since 1,000 miles in every direction is pretty much ocean... Or smaller islands than ours...

Our new neighbors are a pair of birds who have decided to nest in the eaves of our roof right over the front door. At first, I noticed several sticks and leaves all over our small front step and thought it odd that the wind had blown them all right there. Then I noticed two birds flying away every time I opened the front door. They've likely been happily nest building away all day while we're at work.

They're tiny little things, and they fly away to the neighbor's roof (the guy with the dogs). I tried to get a better look at them but they're small and fast. I always wanted to have a bird house that birds would live in, and I love seeing birds in the backyard, but I really don't want them in our roof. I also feel bad for them that they feel they have to fly out every time the door opens, especially if they're sitting on eggs (and I don't know if they are yet, but I assume that's their plan...). I'm so used to thinking of nests as a spring time event, but it is still getting into the 80's here every day, so I guess spring doesn't have the same meaning.

(Oh, no, the nerdy Sonic couple were just on. Ugh.)

So I guess for now we'll let the birds do their thing, and as soon as it appears their family is grown and gone, we'll find a way to block that hole, and next time I see a cute little birdhouse, I will buy one.

Still 14-14 for this game. Florida plays Vandy here in a bit and I will be rooting for the Commodores!