RANDOM MUSINGS FROM THE TOP OF THE HILL

5/15/2022

SUNDAY

If you haven't had breakfast yet or have a squeamish stomach, you might want to skip this entry.  I'm sorry if you can't get the photos out of your mind. 

This event started last Sunday and is ongoing today.  Let me say this before we go any further.  We have a spacious two-car garage but I have turned one half of it into a golf practice area and, now, have a patio table disassembled in that area for repainting.  As a result, I have been parking my care outside the garage.  

I might also add that I went birding Saturday a week ago for the first time and I'm not sure the birds like that.  I was in the Spring Grove Cemetery nature preserve.  I don't put anything past birds.  Here goes.

Last Sunday, when I went to church, I noticed that a bird or birds had unceremoniously dumped on my passenger outside window.  I didn't think much about it but made a note to get the care washed.  

On Monday morning, I thought the bird droppings looked worse than ever and I did take the car to Mike's Autowash.  Problem solved.  I took a double take at that outside mirror on Tuesday morning.  My mind told me that maybe Mike did not do a good job.  Oh well, I cleaned it myself.  

Wednesday morning, I almost lost it.  Same look.  Same type of splatter.  It must have been multiple birds.  Crazy (pic).  Cleaned it again.  Oh yes, there was a little on the driver's mirror but not like the passenger.

Wednesday, I came home from golf and took a nap (of course).  It happened again.  I cleaned it for the second time Wednesday.  This time I took two gift bags my wife brings home from her shopping expeditions and tied them to the mirrors (pic).  Thursday morning came and the bags worked.  

We went to the garden store for flowers on Thursday.  At home, I potted and planted them.  I was near the car when I did it and chased birds several times.  In the evening, the foul fowls did it again - I cleaned it again.  I thought I found an easier way of defeating the birds - I folded the mirrors inward and put ball caps over them.  

That worked Friday morning but when I came home from the gym and rested a bit, I found that the birds had knocked the cap off of the passenger mirror and done their work again (pic). I was livid.  

What, dear God, has gone wrong between me and the birds?  This cannot be a single bird, can it?  HELP!




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