I was visiting my mother in the Black Forest and helped get her garden winter ready. After two gratifying and exhausting conferences there is nothing better than spending some time in the fresh air getting dirty in the garden. Highly recommended. Cutting the lawn I can do without though.
I also installed a bird feeder and tweeted about it. Richard Hirsch asked whether I created it. I once built a bird feeder as a school project a very long time ago. Nowadays you get these at the local store for 10 bucks, although without a stand. That price point takes a bit the wind out of doing these kind of projects, which is sad.
My solution for the missing stand was to buy a big stake and ram it into the ground, secure the bird feeder with a screw and a washer. It wasn’t easy, as I didn’t have a lot of room for the screw driver, but at the end it worked and I am really happy about it.
First fall winds already came through and It is stable.
Picture taken by Mark & Marie Finnern.