– 07_22_10 –

I couldn’t think of an appropriate title!

A couple of days ago I went out onto the back porch/deck with my first cup of morning coffee and the first thing I noticed was that the Plexiglas sheet was no longer suspended above the bird feeder I built. It was lying on the ground in two pieces.

Cracks had developed in the Plexiglas sheet when I drilled the hole for the wire hanger.

I can only assume that they enlarged when the Plexiglas flexed overnight in the breeze or if something had attempted to access the feeder and placed some weight on the sheet.

So back down to the “Black Hole of Calcutta” (that’s what I call our basement) and drill a hole in a thicker sheet of Plexiglas. No cracks this time.

As I am running the wire hanger through the Plexiglas the wife unit suggesats I also add an inverted plastic bowl above the Plexiglas. Whatever – can’t hurt but I think the bowl is too small in diameter to be effective. Time will tell.

The finished product.

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Last summer the oldest BIL found a couple of oversized Zucchinis in the back garden.

He cut them off the vines and tossed them into the corral.

We think that one of the donkeys chewed on or ate one of the over ripe/oversized zucchini. Think baseball bat size.

Anyway the donkey that ate the zucchini took a dump in its stall. BIL cleaned out the stall and the donkey road apples were applied to the garden area as fertilizer and the area was roto-tilled.

Potatoes were planted and were soon growing. Then a single zucchini starts growing.

AND IT KEEPS ON GROWING!

That mess is all one plant.

Oldest BIL has harvested a couple of zucchinis from it already.

If I go in there looking for the fruit of the vine I think I’ll take a machete or an axe.

The cucumbers are coming along well also.

This evening shortly after supper I was sitting on the back porch/deck enjoying a beer when I hear a “Squeek” overhead and then something scraping on the bark of the oak tree closest to the house. Then “THUMP!!!

A squirrel and a dead branch hit the ground about ten feet from me.

For a second or so the squirrel just lay there and then it took off for parts remote.

If a dumb animal can have an expression on its face that says “what the shit”, that very surprised tree rat did.