Face Palm Moment

<--A friend gave me this hummingbird feeder*

The box said it was ant proof which I liked because I am currently in the middle of a turf war with a bunch thug carpenter ants.  I read the instructions, I fil it up and hang it in a tree where I hope hummingbirds can find it.

A couple days later I go and check on it, and there are no ants inside but a bunch of dead earwigs. (Side note - I hate earwigs - so gross looking. What is their purpose in the food chain? Who eats them??? )

Any hoodles - so today I had some time to kill while I waited for train that was blocking the road and popped into a Birding store. I tell the lady that I had this ant-free hummingbird feeder and that it has earwigs in it. She asks me if I fill up the centre moat compartment with water. Um-no.   - "Well there's your problem" (a la Adam Savage of Mythbusters)

*(not my photo)

Capital B - Busted!

Within the past week there were two local incidents which I am kinda happy to hear about. The first was about an accident on the highway - that's not such a good thing, but what was good was that while the police were doing their job and cleaning things up they discovered that the U-Haul trailer being towed by the pickup truck involved in the accident had been stolen and in the trailer and the truck were all sorts of stolen items. The drive and the passenger were charged upon release from the hospital. 

Yay, Police. 

The second incident started when neighbours called the police because they had heard small explosions on a rural property. When the bomb-squad and police arrived they did a sweep of the property and found  4 people on the property had been throwing flood lights into a bon fire and the lights had exploded - but while carrying out their investigation/search of the property they also found 100 mature pot plants. Ha ha, suckers - y'all got arrested. 

Bad Guys - 0, Cops -2 

I love when the dumb criminals get caught like that - don't you ?