Comments on: Summer’s End…Already…? http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/1481 Bruce Garrett's Weblog. Essays and musings on my life and my world. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:22:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Bruce http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/1481/comment-page-1#comment-72535 Bruce Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:44:39 +0000 http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/?p=1481#comment-72535 <p>Speaking of birdshit...  The swallows don't actually get any on the cars, because their nests are by the light fixtures, which are over the driving lanes, not where the cars are parked.  But I just saw an email go by on the all-employees mail list that the parking decks are going to get a cleaning now.  They wait for the swallows to leave and then they give the garage a good cleaning out.   But they leave the nests alone, which I think is really cool.</p> <p>The sparrows of course, try to rip them apart all winter long.  But swallow spit must be some tough stuff because they're always only partially successful, and every spring the swallows just patch them right back up and chase the sparrows back out again.<br /> </p> Speaking of birdshit…  The swallows don’t actually get any on the cars, because their nests are by the light fixtures, which are over the driving lanes, not where the cars are parked.  But I just saw an email go by on the all-employees mail list that the parking decks are going to get a cleaning now.  They wait for the swallows to leave and then they give the garage a good cleaning out.   But they leave the nests alone, which I think is really cool.

The sparrows of course, try to rip them apart all winter long.  But swallow spit must be some tough stuff because they’re always only partially successful, and every spring the swallows just patch them right back up and chase the sparrows back out again.

]]> By: Bob C http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/1481/comment-page-1#comment-72530 Bob C Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:18:59 +0000 http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/?p=1481#comment-72530 Maybe they wanted to poop on your car one last time? Either that or they are OCD, and had to keep checking to make sure they had un-plugged the toaster? Or maybe they where waiting for a better plane fare deal? Because they're that cheep?  Maybe they wanted to poop on your car one last time?
Either that or they are OCD, and had to keep checking to make sure they had un-plugged the toaster?
Or maybe they where waiting for a better plane fare deal? Because they’re that cheep? 

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