I decorated a couple of birdhouses THEN I looked up what the best colors are for attracting nesting birds and… whoops.
So I redecorated some birdhouses and I’m going to try to figure out how and where to install them.
From my Internet research, nesting birds want houses that are painted in hues of gray, brown, green, blue, and purple. While birds love reds, yellows, oranges, pinks, and other bright colors, when they’re trying to hide their nests and their young, they want a camouflaged birdhouse. (So if you’ve set up houses and haven’t gotten any birds, it could be due to location or paint colors.)
My birdhouses may not be the prettiest, but hopefully some birds are going to find their seasonal homes.
They’re a couple of Plaid brand unpainted wooden birdhouses. I used high-gloss acrylic paint that is supposed to be non-toxic and non-harmful. I decorated the outsides and left the interiors as plain wood. With any luck some birds will be having some babies inside them.
Watched the original "The Crazies" movie from George A. Romero. There’s a lot more going on than in the modern version, though some of the colors…
The blood is bright orange-red and a lot of the people look like they’re wearing fluorescent lipstick. And there’s scenes of fighting where there was obviously no contact. But still. A classic movie, in that it holds up.
If those events happened in modern times, people would be sharing everything online. Or freaking out that the Internet got shutdown.
Paranoia. Ignorance. Bad military operations. And a mutated encephalitis that scrambles your brains.
There’s a lot more information provided then in the 2000s version.
And, it’s like, they’re under quarantine, yet they’re going to break out with a girl they KNOW is infected and already showing symptoms? And her dad isn’t too stable either?
When the military guys were talking about scrambling nuclear weapons, it made a lot of sense. Especially since there’s no way for the military to set up a parameter around the whole area… it’s too widely spaced and there’s too many points where people can run through.
Plus how the sickness was spread makes more sense than in the 2000s version. The plane crashed in the hills and some of the canisters ended up in the river and the water sunk into the underground reservoir that provided the town’s water.
In the 2000s version there was a plane that crashed into the lake and nobody knew it was there. As though the military wouldn’t have been tracking their plane full of dangerous chemicals.
In the Romero version, the plane crashed and the military showed up that day. It’s just that for 6 days the military didn’t do a whole lot because the guy in town was told by the higher ups that it was a plane full of deactivated vaccine. People might get fevers or flu-like symptoms but it would be no big deal, when actually it was germ warfare run amok.
There was a lot going on in the movie, but it was pretty good. You just have to go in realizing that it was made in the 1970s.
Did anyone else not realize that one of the main stars of "Another Gay Movie" was Michael Carbonaro?
Anyways, I’ve got a trial Fandor subscription until the 15th, so I’m going to be watching a mix of horror and arthouse movies until it expires.
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I’ve got to watch this. I loved Night of the Living Dead.
Once I planted a hill of gourds and used the best one to make a wren house for my mom to put outside her window. I cut a wren-size circular door in the side, and painted the outside in bright colors. A family actually moved into it. When I was a kid she had a wren house outside the window over the kitchen sink, and was fascinated by the parents constantly going in and out and bringing building materials and food. When it was time for the fledglings to leave, they stood on the perch flapping and screaming at the little ones until they came out.