
We decided the window openings needed to be a tad larger in the hopes purple martins would finally try the bird house as a nesting place. Always a jump-in-and-just-do- it kind of man, Bev regretfully decided, at 91, the restoration was too much. So over 2018 I carefully rebuilt the purple martin apartment house for Bev. In early fall of 2018 Bev and I went down to the coast to install the house with its new wood, new shingles, restored cupola and spanking new white paint.
It makes me very happy that in the spring of 2019 Bev’s bird apartment, so long vacant, had its first nesting pair of purple martins—the larger window openings had done the trick. I think this made my friend very happy.