Can birds frown and look puzzled? A bit fearful? I think so, and I believe they can smell, and the stain did have an odor, one they haven't known here before..
But they're back in their birdhouse, and tussling with other sparrows who want their place. All familiar and comfortable.
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Did I mention the dead squirrel?
Daniel, who came to work/paint last Saturday, found it under my deck stairs. I saw it then. Clearly it was dead, not on its back, legs up, but splayed out flat on its stomach. Not dead for very long.
No idea what killed it.
But what to do with it was the real issue now. Daniel wrapped it in his paper and drop plastic and put it in my garbage can. It waited there until the following Thursday to be collected. I had to move the can halfway down the block because of the smell. When the painters came and parked their vehicles near it, they got a good breath full of dead squirrel.
Yes, they mentioned it. Sorry guys.
Since Thursday, when the squirrel got dumped into the big, big truck, I have worked to get the smell out of the can. I want a new can, by the way. But I have poured the vinegar in several times and left the thing open out in the sun. I will not get in and scrub. I know someone who did that with her garbage can and somehow the thing got shut on her. I say no way am I ever going to do that.
Did you want to know all this?
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