chimney bird

 Last evening I was watching a show on TV and I kept hearing a weird noise...at first I thought is was distant thunder, it was not, then I thought, okay its the sound track of the movie I am watching...it wasn't.  

I turned off the sound and sat and listened for the weird fluttering...it was in my chimney....a bird had fallen into the chimney and was trying to get out...I was so upset...

Kevin, after he got home from work, opened my flue, and we could see the bird inside the upper portion of the chimney....I put Boomer in the back room and shut the door...I opened my front door and sliding doors wide open, and Kevin used a broom handle to coax the bird out, the handle made it impossible for the bird to flap his wings, so he fell into the bottom wear the logs are...from there the bird took flight all over my living room, eventually making it out the door and to freedom.

Last year this happened to my neighbor next door with her chimney.  Nobody can light their fires while critters are able to fall into the chimneys...this means that the netting or whatever that covers the openings are not there...today, a guy is suppose to come over and fly a drone over the apartment to look at the tops of the chimneys and our gutters (which flood and back up when it rains)...

geez, its always somethng.

I have a thickening or bump on my bottom rib, I had Kevin feel it, and it hurts so bad to touch it....I think the rib is actually broken, not just swollen and bruised, after all this time, a bruised rib swelling would have gone down.

I probably should get an Xray, but I just fucking don't want to spend the money...a rib cannot really be set, and I do not feel like it is poking or fucking with anything inside me...its just broke or cracked....

John texted me last night, saying that dad is not doing good and that he would call me later...he did not call.  Maybe he will call today, or maybe he won't...whatever...I really have washed my hands of the whole ordeal, I am 1000 miles away and can't do anything anyway, and my sis and bro, don't want me involved at all, which is evident because they NEVER call me or anything, only John keeps me updated, which is fucking sad, because my dad is not even his family....but being the good guy he is, he is basically taking care of somebody elses family member....my brother lives right there only a couple of blocks away, he lives in my dads home, but him and his wife cannot be bothered to take care of his father...which is so fucking sad and selfish on their parts.....oh well, their decision.  After all, Jim, my step dad, is not my father at all, I had a loving caring father who died.....Jim is their loving and caring father, he is all they have ever known, even though he is their step father too....

Its raining today...which is good, we need some good soaking rains as we are in a drought.

I really hope no more birds fall down my chimney flue...that was very stressful for me and for my little...I could feel her, being all scared and anxious...

S