Go ahead, smack him, Sue...I've got your back! :) MEN!

You be darn careful getting on a step stool. I know you love the birdies, I do, too; however, they'll be okay until you can get a helping hand.

Great gifts by the way. :)

I would smack him too. My DH always says "But I fed them yesterday" To which I always reply, "Did you eat yesterday? Are you going to eat today?"

Just be careful climbing that stepstool.

Lower those feeders to a height you can reach without climbing. The birds won't object at all. I'm short and can reach to fill all of ours, which get filled on a daily basis or every other day as needed.

If that is the worst thing 'him' did yesterday, that wasn't too bad, was it?

Could it be that filling feeders is a woman's job? (Sorry guys). They say, "never send a man to do a woman's job........"
I did a search on that saying and found this funny blogger (link below) talking about her hubby shopping in preparation of an upcoming storm.

I agree...be careful. Here in S IN, the top of the ground has thawed in varying degrees making it quite slippery. Yes, is it possible to maybe fix the feeder lower so it is easier for you to fill?

(the other) Sue

Here is a link that might be useful: Never send a man to do a woman's job...............fill in the blank

Smack Him!!Why do they think they know more about your projects than you do?After 40 yrs I cant begin to remember my stuff he has trashed because he didn't see the value. ARGHH men! ............Sandy (Whose still grumbling LOL)

If the bird feeder isn't high, the cats jump on it and get the birds. It doesn't hold all that much but looks like it does. I need a new feeder one that holds more. My husband has never in his life filled a bird feeder. I am sure from now on my son in law will fill it full when he fills it.

Sue

Can the feeder be attached somehow to a pulley that lets it come down to a level where you can fill it and then pull it up high again? Just a thought.

Oh yeah, smack him! I have had many "smackable" moments with my DH - sometimes I am amazed at my self-restraint.

You could remind his father-in-law that the ground feeders clean up what falls & it isn't wasted. Whose feeder is it, anyway? And remind the son-in-law whose good side he needs to be on!

I know the feeling! Believe me.

Go ahead & smack him.

Nobody, husband or not, has any business interfering in someone else's decision about personal stuff.

If you had no income of your own & you had spent $30,000 on a new pick-up...

oh, wait, it isn't women who generally do stuff like that, is it?

LOL..... Women.... you never catch on.... But that's good. Didn't you watch Everybody Loves Raymond when Robert was supposed to make the wedding invitations?

Chemocurl, that's true, but they also say "A woman's work is never done... since the invention of the TV!" ;)

Now go fetch yer men a beer, bring their pipe and slippers and give him a nice back rub.

To quote some great men:
Women.... can't live with 'em. Pass the beer nuts. - Norm Peterson

Women.... can't live with 'em, can't stuff 'em in a sack! - Larry (of Larry, Darrel & Darrel)

Oh, this could get interesting!

ANYWAY, I was going to just put up an eye hook (ask your menfolk what they are if you don't know, ladies... hehe) and put a rope through it. Simple and effective pulley system.

And BTW, guys NEED $30k pickups to carry home 500 pairs of shoes for whom??? Maybe we should use the same argument: We need a BLACK pickup, and an EBONY pickup and an ONYX pickup... After all, you can't drive the white pickup after September...

I have a brick house and no close wood. Yes, I know what an eye hook is. I only have 6 pair of shoes, and he doesn't drink beer, or smoke or wear slippers. He can do his own back rub if he wants one! Bird feeder is mounted on a pipe made for a bird feeder.

Sue

Men. You can't live with them and you can't just shoot 'em.

I suppose you could mount a circle, like a big baffle, under the feeder- a big one- to make it impossible for the cats to get to the birds. It would also catch a lot of the seeds.

We have a pulley system on our big feeder and even with the pulley, it's hard to grab the nylon cord and pull it up without it feeling like you're either shredding the cord or going to pull the pulley right out. We have to lift the feeder up as we pull the cord to help it. I can't imagine what it would feel like with just an eye hook and NO pulley. We only mounted the pulley system because our housesitter didn't like climbing the ladder to fill the feeder when she was here alone and I don't blame her, the ground is a bit soft where all those hulls fall.

If the pipe is a couple inches in diameter, you could still put an eye hook in it, or a flag tie down, can't think what it's called. Cleet! that's it! Like you wrap the rope around to tie the flag or a boat down. You really need to stay off that step stool. Since "him" said not to fill it, tell him if he doesn't fill it, then he doesn't eat. And I only pull out the big guns like that statement when I am royally po'd over something. It's not something I do very often at all, so it gets my point across.

Tami

I loved that 'Never send a man to do a woman's job' link. Vienna sausages, macarooni and cheese, and twinikes! LOL!

smack him! men need to know and often benefit from knowing when they do something wrong. they might even take note of what they should change in themselves :-) if they don't then after repeated warnings they find out...

my DH aquirred a saying about crossing me LOL...'she's the child of a 3rd generation chicago politician, her family is all lawyers, her dad runs their family funeral home on the side, she has a degree in bio sciences w/ equal training in chemistry and knows how to use that knowledge. she has the ways & means to get rid of someone.' AND I DO AND HE KNOWS IT LOL!

we have a great mutual respect for one another so we never even have issues like this ~ liz

& the body would never be found!

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