Saturday, June 18, 2011
ALL WET
I had to clean the fountain in the courtyard again today.
It gets a lot of dust out of the air as well as algae buildup to say nothing of the birdshit.
What the fountain really is, as it turns out, is a birdbath.
I love the tinkiling, soothing sounds of the water. But the main attraction is the birds.
They come, big and small, to drink and to wallow in the water, flutter their wings, take a full sits bath and for some, sit on the top of the bubbler as though it was a bidet.
At least that is what it looks like.
Quite a show.
I have figured out the intricacies of the pump and the length of the tube and how to clean the pump well enough to keep things to the full bubble.
Cleaning is easy. I hose down the center pipe to get out anything caught in there and then just siphon the water out, mop with rags, clean off the algae where necessary and refill.
Routine. It takes only about twenty minutes.
And it is really worth it to see a bird stick its ass on the bubbler and flap its wings with water going absolutely everywhere. I think that this is the main reason I have to refill the fountain once a day.
