PhantomAndy
05-23-2007, 03:00 PM
Your enjoying your crystal clean sparkling pool on a mid spring afternoon after a long day at work.
Splashing around in the water, you admire the birds in the birdfeeder out in the yard when suddenly. . . . . .
Without any provoking of any kind, a lowly cowbird takes flight. You think to yourself "I hate ugly cowbirds, they just run the cardinals and sparrows away from my feeder" and then it happens!
As if the bird can read your mind, he releases the remains of all that bird food he's been munching as he passes over. Time slows down, and ever microsecond seems like minutes. You move back as the payload drifts slowly toward the pool's surface. You cringe as the runny blob of white nastyness hits ground zero. It's a hit. . .
The fresh droppings skink quickly toward the bottom of the pool.
What would you do?
Me? I moved quickly from the shallow end (where the cowbirds gift was delivered) to the deep end of the pool. I stay there watching the pool thermometer as a guage to judge about when that 'gift' would have arrived in the deepend and move back to the shallow end.... By now I figure the chlorine army has closed the ranks and started attacking the intruders.
Seriously - if you saw the bird make a delivery, would you get out or just continue enjoying the pool knowing your perfectly balanced water will take care of the problem on its own?
Enjoy the upcoming weekend - and use caution when looking up!
Splashing around in the water, you admire the birds in the birdfeeder out in the yard when suddenly. . . . . .
Without any provoking of any kind, a lowly cowbird takes flight. You think to yourself "I hate ugly cowbirds, they just run the cardinals and sparrows away from my feeder" and then it happens!
As if the bird can read your mind, he releases the remains of all that bird food he's been munching as he passes over. Time slows down, and ever microsecond seems like minutes. You move back as the payload drifts slowly toward the pool's surface. You cringe as the runny blob of white nastyness hits ground zero. It's a hit. . .
The fresh droppings skink quickly toward the bottom of the pool.
What would you do?
Me? I moved quickly from the shallow end (where the cowbirds gift was delivered) to the deep end of the pool. I stay there watching the pool thermometer as a guage to judge about when that 'gift' would have arrived in the deepend and move back to the shallow end.... By now I figure the chlorine army has closed the ranks and started attacking the intruders.
Seriously - if you saw the bird make a delivery, would you get out or just continue enjoying the pool knowing your perfectly balanced water will take care of the problem on its own?
Enjoy the upcoming weekend - and use caution when looking up!