As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I was at JYG's and I would that more rich people with shit children would die as the pickings are slim. I did light up though in some garden junk someone tore down as some duffer departed in seeing a "bird house".
I had no idea what this thing was, but had an idea............I took out a bunch of those paper wasp nests. See back in the Robert Rodale day, the buzz was about mason bees. Problem is you have to live where the world does not try to kill you, which is the Brier Patch. I built one and I think it is still hanging, waiting for some mason bee to lose it's way and die here.
I have built allot of bird houses in my day. Wood Duck, Swallow, Bluebirds. Started out young in going through a junk pile, getting a deteriorated bird house, brought it home, kind of fixed it for a 7 year old and wired it up to a tree as no one around here was going to do something like that.
Kind of a waymark event as that is when my sister died from a Jehovah's Witness drunk driver murderer, and the mother said one of the cheerful things in that hell was the "Jenny Wrens" would sing in the morning. If you put up a bird house, you get House Wrens and they sing.
That old bird house I think died when the tried died. I think it was dead when I picked it up, a decade before I got my hands on it, but someone had painted it enough or dunked it into beige paint that it held together and raised allot of wrens.
So below is the bird house or mason bee hive. I thought this thing was older with copper strip roof and rustic look, but when I pulled the broken back post off of it, it was held in place by an electric brad gun.
So I dug some shingle nails out of our fallen down barn and some old wood shingles from when Frank Roosevelt was just starting to rape the Republic, and wasted 90 minutes reconditioning this thing.
I asked the AI about it and the Duo said an inch to an inch and a half hole, no bigger or vermin English House Sparrows will move in. I measured evil uncles drill bit I kind of picked up and found it was an inch to an inch and a sixteenth. I was in business as an inch is the sweet spot according to the AI.
I put shutters on the mason bee windows. Was going to leave it open, but it looks pretty good this way. It is all Redwood, surprised me as that is like gold if you can get it, even when this this electric tapped together.
I reused one rusted off nail and 3 brads for the shutters. Helpful million dollar hint is you use a needle nose pliers and leave a bit of the head exposed and tap them in. Keep backing out as the needle nose is tapered and with effort and Holy Angels the shutters went on.
This has a neat side door to clean it out and a bent over something to lock it into place. Well thought out and expensive piece of crap out in the junk yard.
So TL paid 10 bucks for the trellis that was with this, was homemade, weighed like 40 pounds and am more pleased with the bird house as bird houses make me feel good. If some rich people would get off their asses and donate the 6 figures, I can honestly say this bird house if Jenny Wren's have a family in it will give me more serene delight than 250,000 dollars........although the big don, would relieve more stress.
Anyway, last photo is I used a torque screw, yes is torx, or something, drilled a hole in the bird house and mounted it.
You can see the place looks ratty as hell. Well paint costs money. There is a story on this shed too.
This bird house looks like an outhouse. Well it is mounted on an outhouse. JYG had this shitter down in the yard and I saw it. It was there for a few months until the city made him clean the yard out, so I asked about it as it was about to be destroyed by the scrap metal crew.
JYG said it appeared from Judas Priest, who I think Mexicans had it for a dog house. Dog must have got ate as they wanted it gone, so Judas Priest took it and whatever deal he has with JYG, it ended up in the yard, where lustful me saw it and said BABY CHICKEN SHED, and sure enough it was home to the miniature chickens all winter. You see that little shitter house window? Well to keep the combs from all freezing off, I hung a 100 watt bulb, NON LED for heat, in the coop and it was about the cheeriest thing in the yard all winter to go out and see that little light, and a little LED light in the extension cord hanging there. Just like the old days in busting snow and seeing a candle in the window to warm your heart.
So TL and I revamped this shitter house, dog house now midget chicken coop and now it has a baby coop of it's own for little House Wrens which I already said to God that I had a house and would appreciate Wren occupants this year, as it would honestly be my light in the window to make this summer more cheery.
I should probably think about building bird houses, invest in a brad gun, find out what Redwood or some green plywood would cost and see how it would work out while waiting for 6 figure donations. Have to see as am healing and am tired and am swamped as blogs do not writ their clever selves.
Just will not build things that look like a witch's shitter house. It would be nice to mimic German housing, but the clean look of those soulless Norwegians would be easier to build. Thing is stark does not sell and you have to pretty things up.........like a cuckoo clock wren house. Now someone will probably steal that idea, but that is more my style. Most wren houses hang from a tree and are little bit things. We have one on Grandpa's porch from JYG last year......don't know if it is home to anything or not, but I fixed that thing up to. Had allot of Chippers there today, have no idea what their problem was making sounds as I was checking things.
Anyway that is the bird man theme in this, I would recommend building or getting a few for your mansions and estates as they are better than the people you have on your cell phones to occupy your time with.
OK I got to go into the world and do something.
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