Bird bell v. squirrel
Alex really doesn't ask for stuff at stores. When we're at Target, he'll ask to look at the toys, but when he says he wants something, I say, maybe at the next big celebration like Christmas or the Pope's birthday...or your next birthday. Right now, he seems okay with that.
One day we were at Home Depot, and we went looking for birdseed to do a project. Next to the birdseed, there was a bird bell...this birdseed stuck together with some kind of sugar stuff in the shape of a bell that you could hang. Alex asked for it. I started to explain that we were already going to make bird feeders with the birdseed, but almost immediately I was also enamored with the idea of the bird bell, so I cut myself short of my long-winded explanation and said sure.
As we were driving home, I started thinking of the squirrels and how they were probably going to demolish this thing.
After the ice melted from our snow days, I got the ladder out and hung the bell as far down from the branch and away from the trunk as I could...sort of a floating in space object.
The first couple of days there was no action. I thought, even the birds are thinking, 'what is all this processed crap?!'
Then we drove home from errands a few days later and the bird bell was down. The back third was gone. I imagined the squirrel doing a really lewd dance, swinging the bird bell between his legs and finally coming in like a wrecking ball until the string broke and he got his reward.
#strippersquirrel
I re-hung it (with fishing wire), only to come home the next day to the entire rest of the bell coming off the plastic frame and laying on the ground almost all gone.
Squirrels: 1 Human: 0
And V thinks he's going to get peaches on his tree this Spring. I see a re-match with weaponry and shot out eyes coming soon...
One day we were at Home Depot, and we went looking for birdseed to do a project. Next to the birdseed, there was a bird bell...this birdseed stuck together with some kind of sugar stuff in the shape of a bell that you could hang. Alex asked for it. I started to explain that we were already going to make bird feeders with the birdseed, but almost immediately I was also enamored with the idea of the bird bell, so I cut myself short of my long-winded explanation and said sure.
As we were driving home, I started thinking of the squirrels and how they were probably going to demolish this thing.
After the ice melted from our snow days, I got the ladder out and hung the bell as far down from the branch and away from the trunk as I could...sort of a floating in space object.
The first couple of days there was no action. I thought, even the birds are thinking, 'what is all this processed crap?!'
Then we drove home from errands a few days later and the bird bell was down. The back third was gone. I imagined the squirrel doing a really lewd dance, swinging the bird bell between his legs and finally coming in like a wrecking ball until the string broke and he got his reward.
#strippersquirrel
I re-hung it (with fishing wire), only to come home the next day to the entire rest of the bell coming off the plastic frame and laying on the ground almost all gone.
Squirrels: 1 Human: 0
And V thinks he's going to get peaches on his tree this Spring. I see a re-match with weaponry and shot out eyes coming soon...
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