Kamikaze Bird

Last week, Michael came home to this scene - a window in the garage door had been broken.

 

Seemed pretty strange because if someone was trying to break into the garage to steal our brooms, this would not be the window to break.  So, after looking around and noticing that nothing was missing, Michael noticed something new in the garage...feathers scattered all around and a dead bird.  Below is a very artistic photograph of the dead bird.  Note the distance from the garage door.  We aren't real sure how this happened or how the bird came to lay to rest at nearly the back of the garage.   Quite a mystery, but clearly this poor bird had a really bad day.

And normally I wouldn't put a pic of a dead bird in the blog, and the story would generally not be  blog-worthy, although it is kind of fascinating, but Addy's fascination in it all makes it worth documenting.  She immediately came inside and began drawing a picture to depict the scene.  You might think that she'd be upset by the dead bird, but I guess we talk enough about Michael's hunting and shooting birds that she was relatively unphased by the bird aspect of things.  I think that she was more concerned with the glass all over the garage floor.  This might be one of her best pics to date

And one of my favorite things is the writing at the bottom.  Sure, it is backwards, but she spelled out "ded brd"  (a.k.a. dead bird).  She did this all by herself and she wrote the words based on the sounds.  I'm pretty proud!  Oh and I also like that she drew our car to look more like a tractor.  It is an impressively accurate depiction of the scene of the crime (minus the fact that we don't drive a tractor).