pond in frederick, md

[CountryEscape]

Really neat idea and especially right there on your deck, so you can watch them. Does the jar unscrew from the wood? I bet Sissy will be running with this new design, or one of her own as a spin off. I, sadly, do not have any squirrels where I live. Someday, I'll live closer to the woods, and have squirrels and more birds than sparrows, starlings, and pigeons - all the trash birds! But, I feed them just the same, as they need to eat, too. Figure if they come to my "open prairie", they deserve some food to sustain them. The sparrows use my big pine tree to roost in at night. Sure miss squirrels, though .... Thanks for sharing the cute pics, Addy.

 

[addy1]

The jar fits tight into the hole, easy to pull back out and refill once every other day or so. Should have a bigger jar!

 

[sissy]

hey addy that pic of the squirrel in the feeder looks like a magic trick .Head and butt shot and no middle .Looks like an illusion .Also if he puts on weight you will have a stuck squirrel that will be very angry . :razz:

 

[addy1]

lmao Sissy, it cracked me up! I didn't think they could easily fit through the holes. The one squirrel was on one side of the feeder, another squirrel showed up on the deck. The first squirrel went through both holes to chase the second in a blink, they can fit through the smallest spots. I love watching them. They are doing constant chasing out in the woods right now, must be happy time! Here we have so many vines that grow up the trees, gives them good running areas. I watch them with the binocs chasing each other.

 

[sissy]

like they say they are just a mouse with a cuter outfit .I only have 3 here and boy do they love there peanut butter crackers

 

[addy1]

like they say they are just a mouse with a cuter outfit .I only have 3 here and boy do they love there peanut butter crackers

Yep, at least they live in the woods and stay out of the house and garage. I have been buying those huge bags of peanuts in the shell for them, get them from costco, around 5 bucks or so. The birds snag them now and then, peck away until they get the peanut out then take off to the woods to eat it.

My pup tries to catch them, she is darn fast, but the squirrels are faster.

I was watching the birds clean up under the feeder pole, i.e. ground feeding. Every time one of those huge buzzards flew over (they circle a lot over the woods) they would run under the bushes, then pop back out and keep eating. Their safety shelter.

 

[sissy]

remember the shower stuff I used as I still had some in the basement and it was kerdi shower kit .I bought the whole kit from them .Presloped shower pan and the kerdi wrap .I also put in floor heating .It looks like a mesh and you put mastic on the walls and inbed the mesh into it with the smooth side of a trowel .

 

[sissy]

Remembered the other stuff I bought called redgard and is usually about 50 dollars a tub ,you brush it on .I know I bought mine at home depot .

 

[j.w]

Squirrels don't come around here, wish they would. These 5 homes have been here now for 12 yrs and we have some big trees growing here now so I think it's about time they arrived. I see them out while walking and see some cute little chipmunks just a couple blocks away. Think tho there are not enough trees on the way from the woods to our place for their traveling safety. I'll just enjoy your funny squirrels addy and thanks for posting the neat pix.

 

[addy1]

They use all the plants on the slope to work their way from the fence to the feeders. They do have bare openness for about 40 yards or so, but they do run fast, from the woods to the fence. Then there is a lot of cover they can use to work their way up the slope.

Thanks Sissy,

This is what our bathroom looks like currently........

 

[sissy]

didn't your mother teach you to clean the bathroom behind you

 

[addy1]

lol yep............forgot that lesson!

 

[sissy]

did you have those stupid mirrors above your tub also .Don't understand them .I just contacted the mirror and glass company in Martinsville about mine and they will come take mine down for free if they can have them and will give the glass for the top of my dresser and cut it to shape also .

 

[addy1]

No mirrors, thankfully! We dropped a wall of mirrors in Florida, floor to ceiling ones.......... a little scary dealing with them.
Neat they are making you a glass top for your dresser. They must have built the bathroom around the tub, to get it out poor honey had to cut the dry wall away, it was in so darn tight. Next step, pull the toilet, sink, trash the rest of the room and start doing tile. I will be tiling all of the walls, when done it will be an all tile room. We did it for the bathroom in florida, looks neat! Used epoxy grout, impermeable, just hard to work with.

This is what the bathroom down there looked like in the beginning



as we tore it apart



The finish, dropped two walls, now handicap accessible.



I found some niche shelves, you recess them into the walls in the shower for shampoo, soaps etc. Water proof, ready to be tiled. Will be putting in a few of them, always need junk in the shower.

Here is a niche shelf that I made at the end of the shower in florida

 

[CountryEscape]

Check out the reflection in the mirror on the first pic, Addy ..... Is that you?!