No Good Deed, As They Say

The new bird feeder hanger is here and installed!!  It does the trick perfectly — thank you, Karen!!  The title of this post refers to the fact that I went down to the street to clean up the bird mess, and the second I got down there, guess what happened to me?  Mess on the head.

Feathered dudes, who is feeding you, hello???  The shower curtain I put down doesn’t cover all contingencies, apparently. Anyway, the downstairs is clean now, I am showered, and here are pictures of my new set-up.

View one.  I put down a new shower curtain, cleaned up the feeder and put seed in it to celebrate (I usually only fill it in the morning).  Two more pictures below.

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The point was to get the feeder to hang over where I could put the shower curtain down so it actually catches more mess, and I didn’t think you could quite see that it’s working so I took a shot from a slightly different angle.

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And then I thought it would be fun to show the cat’s eye view. I had to move it one pole back. The first pole I attached it to made it too close to the window, and Finney was beside himself. So yay!! Me and the birds are all set.

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Stacy Horn

I've written six non-fiction books, the most recent is Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York.

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3 thoughts on “No Good Deed, As They Say

  1. I’m glad to be of some help at the cost of less than $10!

    And the plate you lust after is mocha ware. Here’s a link to a website that has a plate similar to what you saw (top of the cabinet. http://www.woodburyguild.com/mochaware/mocha.html

    If it is antique, probably about $600. I say, stick to feeding the birds.

    And, told you the cats would become blase about the birds.

  2. Ha. There are just so many beautiful things in the world. Thankfully, I don’t really feel strongly about owning them. I actually start to feel weighed down if I have too much stuff.

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