and are enjoying cool (55 degrees last night) nights and beautiful breezy days without humidity! The airconditioning is off, the windows are open, and I am sitting at the computer with the french doors open behind me so that I get the breeze and can hear the birds as they do their evening errands. The big copper birdbath is very popular with the feathered crowd, and I can hear them splashing around. The robins are the best customers, followed by the catbirds and the cardinals. Yesterday there was a goldfinch drinking there, in his brilliant yellow summer plumage.
No rain though, and the water barrel is down to less than one-third. This summer dryness seems to be a new pattern here and we can no longer count on afternoon thunderstorms to keep us watered.
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Ah, that was pleasant...
Too bad I came to the end of my reading to find myself in my hot and muggy, and bird bathless, home. My whole bird-feeding slot is messed up. Turns out, the front porch is NOT the ideal place for storing seeds, even in a critter-proof container. That was only one of my bad ideas. I liked throwing the seed casings on the ground, kind of hoping for sunflowers, but it seems that can make the birds sick, and instead of a sunflower, I have what I believe to be a corn stalk. That, and one very strange vine...
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