Big hugs to you, Pat - and take every rest chance you can. You need your strength.
Judy, I, too, like grackles. I was furious once at a park in TX when they decided to trim a tree that had a nest with babies in it. Let me tell you, while they knocked the nest down and the babies died - which really upset me and some others at the park, that mom WENT BALLISTIC on the guys - several got hurt, not seriously enough in my mind, but she was not happy, and neither were they - they couldn't finish trimming that tree until later. Idiots.