“I come from a long line of birders,” Jenna told Veranda. “My parents bird for fun, and my grandmother Jenna was a naturalist. She would teach my sister, Barbara, and me about birds, rocks, every constellation in the sky.”

After she and her husband looked at the cottage together for the first time, they went to a local café to talk things over. While they were there, an older gentleman approached their table and said he was familiar with the cottage. “They get the best birds,” he said. “It felt so serendipitous,” says Jenna.