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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 162064" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>G'day, everybody.</p><p></p><p>Linda, here's hoping kt isn't too much of a pain as she gets bored. Roll on the 16th!</p><p></p><p>Sharon/Wiped, sounds like a really fun day. I love the sound of the medieval fair! Congrats on easy child getting into cheerleading, too.</p><p></p><p>Sharon/LDM, enjoy your hot day. A suggestion about the bird feeder - if you put it on a platform on a pole, and then put a metal collar round the pole lower down (like a two foot wide band of metal wrapped around the pole) would that stop raccoons etc? We do that in Australia on telephone poles and some trees to stop possums and koalas climbing up and either doing damage or getting damaged. We also had a recipe for bird feeders, for insectivores - mix bird seed into dripping (fat from cooking) so the fat holds the seed in one gluggy ball. Put it into a cup of some sort and fasten the cup firmly to the feeder. A good option is to use clear plastic cups (like good disposable party cups). Nail through the base of one cup onto a wooden base, then use a second cup (matching) for the seed and fat mix, and sit the second cup inside the first nailed-on one. That way, there shouldn't be anything much dropped, but the fat is really good for birds that eat insects, because insect bodies are high in fat.</p><p></p><p>We get some of our prettiest birds in the centre of the city too. difficult child 3 & I were looking around as we were leaving his school last week, and saw a couple of white cockatoos, heard (and then saw) rainbow lorikeets as well as the usual magpies, mynahs and smaller birds. And, of course, the flying foxes (large fruit-eating bats with very pretty faces) live right in the heart of Sydney's Botanical Gardens, every evening on sunset you can see them flying off for a night's foraging.</p><p></p><p>You can enjoy wildlife anywhere!</p><p></p><p>We've had a dull, miserable wintry day today. It's been so overcast we had to keep the lights on indoors. Like dusk outside. The north road is blocked by flood, the ferry has been stopped by heavy seas, the south road is now blocked (not sure how, probably landslide). There is only one road open, we're hoping it doesn't get blocked too. We have a store in the village so we won't run out of anything. It's a nuisance though. The doctor (mainland) wants to see mother in law, but at the moment it would be almost a 2 hour round trip by car, no other option possible. There is a twice-weekly bus run tomorrow, but I suspect they will cancel it because of the flood and landslides.</p><p></p><p>I can hear the wind howling outside and the rain is either barely a whisper, or it is bucketing down. I haven't been able to get out and check my garden for days. I have seedlings to rescue, more to plant (when the weather eases off a little) and others to harvest. At least it's getting watered!</p><p></p><p>Tomorrow is hopefully another quiet day for us. difficult child 3 has more work to catch up on and we both have exercise to do. Thank goodness for Wii Fit - we can exercise without having to go outside in this awful weather!</p><p></p><p>Enjoy your Thursday, everyone.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 162064, member: 1991"] G'day, everybody. Linda, here's hoping kt isn't too much of a pain as she gets bored. Roll on the 16th! Sharon/Wiped, sounds like a really fun day. I love the sound of the medieval fair! Congrats on easy child getting into cheerleading, too. Sharon/LDM, enjoy your hot day. A suggestion about the bird feeder - if you put it on a platform on a pole, and then put a metal collar round the pole lower down (like a two foot wide band of metal wrapped around the pole) would that stop raccoons etc? We do that in Australia on telephone poles and some trees to stop possums and koalas climbing up and either doing damage or getting damaged. We also had a recipe for bird feeders, for insectivores - mix bird seed into dripping (fat from cooking) so the fat holds the seed in one gluggy ball. Put it into a cup of some sort and fasten the cup firmly to the feeder. A good option is to use clear plastic cups (like good disposable party cups). Nail through the base of one cup onto a wooden base, then use a second cup (matching) for the seed and fat mix, and sit the second cup inside the first nailed-on one. That way, there shouldn't be anything much dropped, but the fat is really good for birds that eat insects, because insect bodies are high in fat. We get some of our prettiest birds in the centre of the city too. difficult child 3 & I were looking around as we were leaving his school last week, and saw a couple of white cockatoos, heard (and then saw) rainbow lorikeets as well as the usual magpies, mynahs and smaller birds. And, of course, the flying foxes (large fruit-eating bats with very pretty faces) live right in the heart of Sydney's Botanical Gardens, every evening on sunset you can see them flying off for a night's foraging. You can enjoy wildlife anywhere! We've had a dull, miserable wintry day today. It's been so overcast we had to keep the lights on indoors. Like dusk outside. The north road is blocked by flood, the ferry has been stopped by heavy seas, the south road is now blocked (not sure how, probably landslide). There is only one road open, we're hoping it doesn't get blocked too. We have a store in the village so we won't run out of anything. It's a nuisance though. The doctor (mainland) wants to see mother in law, but at the moment it would be almost a 2 hour round trip by car, no other option possible. There is a twice-weekly bus run tomorrow, but I suspect they will cancel it because of the flood and landslides. I can hear the wind howling outside and the rain is either barely a whisper, or it is bucketing down. I haven't been able to get out and check my garden for days. I have seedlings to rescue, more to plant (when the weather eases off a little) and others to harvest. At least it's getting watered! Tomorrow is hopefully another quiet day for us. difficult child 3 has more work to catch up on and we both have exercise to do. Thank goodness for Wii Fit - we can exercise without having to go outside in this awful weather! Enjoy your Thursday, everyone. Marg [/QUOTE]
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