After several hours during the week clearing and cleaning up a messy garden my day started like this
@aps1080 wrote:
Punch
You can put wire mesh over the bowl, the birds can still drink but can't fall in.
You can even press the mes so it sits under the water but never deep enough to drown in.
(I used to keep Bantams).
Yoohoo, I'm here. Checking up on you all. Will be back later with Asthma, and backyard shade tree sub-sections.
I will join the "birds talk" sub-section now.
In the deeper water troughs, I have placed a few "rock islands" and a plank of wood with small cross laths (ladderlike-effect) so that the smaller birds can take a breather/rest if they get into bother. Or 'walk the plank'. 
It's years since I was around poultry. But I recall chooks drink with the head pointing skywards. So I imagine there are "nippled" water bottles out now? And as I recall, the poultry drinking water must be fresh, at least daily.
That's it. You can all go back to behaving again. 
DEB
Cherries have been delicious and plentiful this season. I have a shortage of fruit trees here. I have a few plum trees that are nothing special, a lemon tree that is prolific, a mandarin tree that needs some attention, a lime tree that never flourished and a couple of feijoa trees that flower but do not fruit. I'd love to have a white nectarine tree. Perhaps, I could look into creating my own fruit salad tree. Perhaps.
Its good to see you back, Freddie.
I took my spraying cat to the vet today and have come home with a bottle of Wee Off to spray everywhere. I also need to get some outside spray from teh pet shop. I need to use these sprays as well as the feliway for two weeks and if Tzar is still spraying then some bloodwork will be done. He got so much attention from everyone while we were there. Fortunately, he loves attention. The last time he was weighed he was 6.6kg [not 7kg] and now he weighs 6.4 but could do with losing a little more weight.
Time for a coffee then off to the shops. I hope that everyone is having a lovely day.
I wouldn't mind drinking my cup of coffee in that orchard.....
Helllllooooo Freddie!
glad you are feeling better Sandy ๐
Poor chickie, Punch ๐
Stawka, if I can get swimming...maybe you should give it a try, too...yesterday I was getting bounced about in choppy waves and getting used to different conditions (still only paddling about a little)
breakfast for me is either nothing, or a cup of tea most days. Once a week or so I get a lovely fry-up happening (cherry tomatoes, snowpeas, eggsies and heaps of bacon) all piled up on wholegrain toast spread with avocado. Yummmmm. That's the day after a swim so had that this morning.
Afternoon everyone xxx
What's for dinner then? Tonight for us, it's a tagine (not a "proper" lamb one) made with the tiniest piece of venison cut very thinly tossed in Moroccan seasoning, onions, garlic and ginger, with a few chunks of carrot, capsicum and the dreaded zucchini. Smells divine as it's cooking right now but has an hour to go. Might make a little bit of couscous to go with it, laced with whatever I can find.
As for the German cherry pie, um, er, ah, well ... didn't exactly happen did it; ran out of time but there's always tomorrow .... 
Tonight we'll just settle for something easily grababble. Did get the cherries though so it's all ready to go tomorrow.
Have a splendid night everyone, and have a nice dinner too .....
As soon as I saw this graphic, I thought of Basil Fawlty and a scene from Fawlty Towers where he offered the inspector something on a platter ... he lifted the lid and out leapt a rodent and all hell broke loose 
.... anyone else ever see that?
