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It’s travel season! Here are some tips from one of the local groups I follow, Livable Albayzin. They are trying to keep their neighborhood from becoming a theme park.

Walk with intention. Leave space for people who live here.
Speak softly. On narrow streets everything is louder
Choose local businesses. It’s where authenticity is.
View with respect. Every house is a home.
Give the gift of silence. It too is part of the journey.
Take out what you brought in. Including trash.
Take care of the walls. They already tell their own story.
Leave public transportation to those who need it most.

What they are asking for is that we watch where we’re going, not write on the walls, yell down the streets, cackle in front of people’s living room windows, walk 4 abreast down the streets, or take 20 able-bodied people on a bus when you could walk. All that sounds reasonable to me.

Hello Nashville, Louisville here. I have 2 tickets to Pub Choir at the Brooklyn Bowl Thursday May 14. I am SO BUMMED that we won’t be able to make the show. Was really looking forward to it. But hubby is having a knee operation that day so I guess we should not try to drive ahahah. Anyway, hate for tickets to go to waste and they can’t be resold, only transferred, via Ticketmaster. So anybody want to grab a friend and go sing?

Should I remove this nest?

The honeysuckle in my yard had a robin nest with 4 intact eggs laid between April 14 and 19. Last night there was a huge storm. Checked on the nest, was intact but eggs had holes in them. Maybe hatching I thought. Hours later nest was totally empty. There is a chickadee family living in a nest box 3 feet from the honeysuckle. Chickadees just hatched in the last day. Maybe the chickadees poked the Robin eggs and the Robin pitched them out. Maybe something else happened. I’m wondering if the Robins will try again in the same nest or if I should remove it since it’s a bad location, both in that it’s close to a nesting box and also honeysuckle is not very stable.