Friday after work, I used the 1/2″ drill I’d borrowed from B to drill out some aluminum that C had let me get from the scrap bin. Would’ve been easier with a drill press, but I managed. They were free, and nothing is going to peck or chew through them, so they’re perfect.

I also got some screws that made cute door handles. C gave them to me.

Saturday, I cut the pieces for the last hoce, and assembled that, and the two I cut on Thursday. Saturday night, P and I had a metal shop/paint shop/barber shop in the gradge. He helped me drill the entry holes out of the 1/8″ aluminum, I drilled the screw holes, then painted them, and then I cut his hair.

Not much bird hoce stuff today; I put door handles on the last three, and installed the entry guards we made last night. Then I cleaned leaves out of the pond, cut a piece of the crabapple tree I had removed (it’s going to be a suet feeder), shot at some starlings, and then B brought a load of leaves, which I started shredding for compost and mulching around the pond. I’m still trying to finish the laundry because it was lovely outside today, and I didn’t feel like being indoors. I wanted to hang some hoces today, but after wrangling the leaf blower/shredder, and the fact that time went back last night, I was just too tired.