For several days the fire investigator asked Ed a ton of questions about the electric (there was none), Could the tract have been hot. No, it sat outside several hours before being put away and that had been a week before the fire. The wanted to know where he was when the fire started. He and mom had spent the entire day with Rosie and me. There were a ton of questions and they seemed to be non stop every time the investigator came around. Finally Ed told the guy that he felt the investigator didn't seem to care that he had lost it all and never had a dime of insurance on any of it. The investigator looked surprised and said "You mean to tell me this is a total loss and you won't get anything out of it? Ed said Yep. That is when all the questions stopped. When Ed told me that I told Ed, the investigator was doing his job because he felt it was arson and was thinking you were trying to collect insurance.
Anyway, too make a long story short (too late for that
) My uncle had told me one time that birds will pick up just about anything when building their nest, including cigarette butts. He said if one had just been discarded and still lit a bird could stuff it in their nest of dry grass. In an old barn that could be disastrous. We don't know if that is what happened.Yesterday I was taking down old sliding door rails from my old shop. Over the years birds had gotten in to build nests. After the rails were down I started removing the old nests and found this.
It looks like it was out before it became a part of the nest, or my old shop and a few cubs would be gone by now.
Keep this in mind if you ever see a bird build in a building.
