Bird Feeders, Fire Doors, & Nemesia

Yesterday morning, something, crows, I think, brought down my bird feeder. I had been watching birds come and go, but got distracted with the computer for about 10 minutes and when I looked back at the picture window, the bird feeder was on the ground in several pieces.

My neighbor’s bird feeder appeared to be MIA as well so I’m betting it was those rather large crows I saw flying about that morning.

I added it to my Lowes shopping list since I was going that afternoon anyway.

That was a dizzyingly frustrating experience in itself. All I really wanted was to buy a plain wooden door to put between my garage and my breeze-way/dining room. Growing up in New Orleans, we had a hollow brown door there that opened into the house. I really just wanted the same thing, but white. Really, I need it to open into the house, because the garage is a few steps down and it would be awkwardly dangerous to have it open into the garage.

However, what I was told at Lowes is that in my town, the building/fire code is that you have to have a steel fire door there. Currently, there’s just a storm door that was put there by the original owner when the breeze-way was added on — several owners ago. But I have to put a steel fire door there.

And it has to open into the garage because if there’s a fire in the garage, that will make it less likely to explode into the house if the door gets opened.

Oh, and though Lowes installs doors, they don’t install fire doors, which have to be specially ordered. You have to hire a contractor to do that.

So, I came home with a new bird feeder and a pot of Nemesia from Lowes and no door and no order for a door.

I like the two tiers on the new bird feeder. Even more birds can come and visit at one time now. Hopefully this one will last longer than six months, which is how long the last one lasted.

The Nemesia are really pretty sitting on my front porch too.

tags: bird feeder, crows, Nemesia, Lowes, fire door, fire code, photo blogging, flickr

One comment

1. on June 3, 2007 at 7:34 pm

   Jessica said:

   Are you sure it wasn’t those pesky squirrels? We have them here in the woods and we finally stopped putting up traditional feeders!

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