Bird Bath

It's pouring rain and kind of cool today, so I fixed the Bird Bath. It was found in several pieces, scattered around the property, when we moved in; I recognized the disparate pieces of concrete for the tasteless piece of junk that it really is. It was made in 1956, by someone with no talent and pretty clearly no real idea of how a fountain works.

However, I like it. So, using marine goop, hot glue, straws, beer cans, red duct tape, and some PVC, it's been restored to functionality. As originally built, water is pumped from the basin into the top portion, which is apparently the demented artists concept of a concrete birds nest. It then drips/slides down the vine covered tree limb into a...dog bowl? From there it splatters out onto the ground, thus burning up the pump within a few minutes without ever 'falling' into the large, heavy, concrete daisy shaped basin. Really, it's a giant daisy. Some of the petals are broke off, exposing the internal rebar-looking frame.

Using pieces of a Coors lite can and some hot glue, ably assisted by Me!, I made spouts to direct the flow. The internal works were restored with a neon pink soda straw. To enable the basin to hold more than an ounce of water, a piece of PVC was marine gooped into the middle of the daisy where the power cord for the pump enters. Guess you'd have to see that to really make it clear.

Anyway, Its still ugly as sin, but it works now, and sounds nice. It attracts lots of birds to eat the tomatoes in the garden too. It'll look better with a few beads, some fake ivy, and maybe a solar powered, color changing bird....