They're baaaack.......
One day last week we had some very mild weather for the end of September, so I decided to eat my lunch out on the patio with my fountain turned on to provide a soothing background. Well....the minute water started to bubble up in the urn, a really nasty stench permeated the air. I can only compare it to an ad I saw on TV a few years back - I don't remember what the product/service was, but a guy comes out of what's clearly a bathroom, waving a newspaper behind him and saying, "I think we can consider this wing of the house closed!". That kind of odor. The kind that means the voles have returned to use my fountain's catch basin as a toilet. My comments ran along the lines of "!@#$%^&***"!!! I then unplugged the fountain, waited for the aroma to die down, and consumed my lunch in gloomy silence. At this point in the season, I saw no reason to go to the trouble of cleaning out the catch basin for the third time this year; I'll just wait a few more weeks and do it when I dismantle the fountain to put it away for the winter. Sigh.
