On my deck, out the back of my house, I have this plastic storage shed in which there are two metal garbage bins. In one there is cracked-corn which ducks and crows love to eat, and the other one has striped sunflower seeds which virtually every other bird eats. This morning when I opened up the sunflower can, this is what I found.
None of this was here two days ago when I last fed the birds. Since then 3 mice have built a home and brought in a whole supply of peanuts (you can see them in the other picture...in Flickr). (Apparently the limitless supply of sunflower seeds was not enough they had to steal all of the remaining peanuts I had and store them inside the plastic container I use as a scoop.)
This all leads to a problem in that I really don't like to kill animals, but now they know about this place, and there will be no stopping them from rebuilding -- likely every single day. Time to think of some ingenious plan I guess...but they are cute.
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Thursday, November 17, 2005
Mmmm Cops.
(I give up on apologizing for not blogging regularly, my life is busy, an entry will come whenever I have time and enough motivation to conjure-up a degree of creativity.) (Like now!)
When I was in Stoney Creek a few weeks ago, on one of the last mornings, I was in line at the local Tim Hortons' drive through (which really is kind of silly being that Tim Hortons is in the parking lot and I could just park in my regular spot and walk there, but it's 5:30 and really cold) and I see a cop car in the alternate entrance to the drive through. It's kind of hard to explain the layout of the place, but when our old store closed we left an empty area so that now there are sort of two entrances to the drive through. For the most part this works peacefully as people just pay attention to what position everyone was in when they arrived and they go when it's their turn -- no big deal.
Anyway, when I was one spot away from the bottleneck point the cop pulls up and there are still 3 cars behind me. The guy in front of me goes into the bottleneck, but then I broke all the rules and let the cop in. Besides the fact that she was cute and I find most chicks with guns to be especially hot, she was a cop and I have a belief that people should do whatever it is that they can to make cops' lives easier (actually, this feeling extends to people in the emergency services field in general). (One coffee shop in Whitby used to give free coffee to all uniformed police officers which I thought was great.) Anyway, I get up to the window, and I've got a big order because I'm buying for several other people in the store so I'm expecting to pay about $8-9. The girl at the window tells me the cop was very thankful and paid for my order along with hers. "WHAT?!? She can't do that.", I say, followed promptly by "have you ever seen anyone chase down a cop?"
I raced out into the parking lot to try to catch her and at one point I got to about 50 feet behind her, but she raced off and I was only willing to go so far to catch her, I was already skirting a few laws about how one should drive. So several of us ended up with free coffee that morning because of the good-heartedness of one really hot Hamilton police officer. Guess there are still good people out there...
When I was in Stoney Creek a few weeks ago, on one of the last mornings, I was in line at the local Tim Hortons' drive through (which really is kind of silly being that Tim Hortons is in the parking lot and I could just park in my regular spot and walk there, but it's 5:30 and really cold) and I see a cop car in the alternate entrance to the drive through. It's kind of hard to explain the layout of the place, but when our old store closed we left an empty area so that now there are sort of two entrances to the drive through. For the most part this works peacefully as people just pay attention to what position everyone was in when they arrived and they go when it's their turn -- no big deal.
Anyway, when I was one spot away from the bottleneck point the cop pulls up and there are still 3 cars behind me. The guy in front of me goes into the bottleneck, but then I broke all the rules and let the cop in. Besides the fact that she was cute and I find most chicks with guns to be especially hot, she was a cop and I have a belief that people should do whatever it is that they can to make cops' lives easier (actually, this feeling extends to people in the emergency services field in general). (One coffee shop in Whitby used to give free coffee to all uniformed police officers which I thought was great.) Anyway, I get up to the window, and I've got a big order because I'm buying for several other people in the store so I'm expecting to pay about $8-9. The girl at the window tells me the cop was very thankful and paid for my order along with hers. "WHAT?!? She can't do that.", I say, followed promptly by "have you ever seen anyone chase down a cop?"
I raced out into the parking lot to try to catch her and at one point I got to about 50 feet behind her, but she raced off and I was only willing to go so far to catch her, I was already skirting a few laws about how one should drive. So several of us ended up with free coffee that morning because of the good-heartedness of one really hot Hamilton police officer. Guess there are still good people out there...
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