I don't think that's the Easter Bunny

So I thought I'd get in a load of wash in between Conference sessions today. I went into the laundry room and I heard a loud rustling in the corner. It sounded like something was in the dryer tube. I called for Jaaromy so he could hear it, and of course it stopped when he got there. I climbed on top of the dryer to see if I could get it to move again. It did and so we moved the dryer out a ways so we could see what was going on. Well, the tube came out of the dryer so whatever was inside could now crawl out. We waited with great anxiety as we heard it crawl closer to the opening. What is it?! Jaaromy immediately thought rat. This was such an amusing scenario that my mind started thinking of more pleasant possibilities, such as a small puppy. We were both surprised when out popped a bird.



It kept going back and forth between the tube and the dryer, and then suddenly started to fly around our tiny laundry room. Apparently, I'm a girl because I screamed. Nathaniel had chosen that moment to see what was going on and saw it flying around and it startled him quite a bit as well. It flew to the small window but it was closed, of course. So Jaaromy opened it up but that was a little to close for comfort for the bird so it flew into the ceiling which was missing a panel because of our leaky bathtub last year. So we went back to the business of taking care of the dryer. The bird had apparently been in there before since there were feathers all over. Turns out that what we thought were discarded feathers was actually a dead bird. It was inside the dryer. I don't think it could have been there very long. I hate to think that it was my last load of laundry that did him in. He probably thought that it was warm...at first. Jaaromy was taking care of the dead bird when we heard more rustling. There was another bird in the tube! So Jaaromy lifted it up towards the window and out popped the second bird and it flew out the window.

As I write this, the bird may or may not still be in the ceiling. We decided to leave the window open and close the door and let it get out on it's own. I hope it works.