September 7, 2024
The birds were all waiting for me at the lanai when I got up this morning. So, I crushed up a couple of crackers and put the crumbs into the feeder.
If you look closely at the picture above, you will see a Northern Red Cardinal, and a couple of honeycreepers waiting their turn at the feeder.
After breakfast, I set up forms for another step at the bottom of the garden stairs. I think that this one will be the bottom step. I plan on creating at least two more steps at the upper end of the staircase.
Forms are also set up at the top of the gazebo columns to pour a concrete cap.
I need to find some bolts to set into the concrete when I pour it to use to bolt the 4 x 4 metal bases I had my grandson in Arizona weld for me before I came. I have the bolts somewhere in the back of the Ford Escape – I think!
I set up the mixer in the driveway and mixed concrete to pour another section of the floor for the gazebo extension. I struggled with the scraps from my lava pattern stamp. I created it with lines of silicone caulking on window screen. The screen has deteriorated and fallen apart, leaving it in multiple smaller pieces. But I was successful in stamping a lava pattern in this part of the gazebo floor.
I also poured the bottom step on my garden steps. I used a sponge to create a “sand” finish on this, like I have on the other steps.
Over by the driveway, there is a guava tree that gives me guavas periodically. I am too late for the guava on the left – the birds have gotten to it and cleaned out everything inside, leaving it an empty shell.
I have set up these pieces of containers as a tiered fountain using two solar powered water pumps. I like it and so do the birds. I have seen the red headed cardinals using it as a bird bath, They get in and splash water all over themselves. I am not quick enough to catch a photo of them doing this . . . maybe in the future.
TTFN
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