I am Sarah Jane Case and this is Anya Graham and Coffee.

Hello friends. Welcome back to the podcast. Happy Monday. I hope your weekend treated you

beautifully. Happy May. Welcome to the best month of the year. I think this is the best month of

the year in my personal opinion. I know a lot of y'all are in October. I get it. I respect it. January

you know you love to hate her. Birthday my birthday is in January. New years is in January.

My favorite holiday but the weather is it's terrible. So you know May's the time. Happy May.

And you know with May in mind I have a bird feeder update. You know birds are migrating right now.

So that's very exciting for me and my bird feeder sensation. I can't believe I said

bird feeder sensation. This is what happens when you turn 37. Okay you immediately turn into a

birder. It's like you hit your 37th birthday and then it's like someone drops a bird book in

your hands and you're like whoa how does this happen? That's that's the case. So if you don't know

I talked about this on Instagram and TikTok so if you're not following me on those places

then you definitely don't know but I have talked about the bird feeder here. So I bought a bird feeder

and I haven't had a bird visit and it's been about three weeks and then one night I got really

impatient and a blue J landed beside me on the porch. Right next to it is our bird bath. Our

bird bath is like not really typically have water in it and it didn't stay. It just kind of

pumped down and left and I thought if I had bird feed and that bird's eater that bird would stay

and so I poured a bunch of bird feed in the bird feeder. Very exciting stuff.

Then the next day I woke up and something had torn up our backyard. I'm pretty sure it was chip

monks. I've seen chip monks in our yard before so I'm like 90% sure it's chip monks but

I do feel responsible. Like I feel like somehow me putting the seed in the bird feeder made

the chip monks come out you know. I don't know. I doubt it's true but some things the guilt is

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