{"id":4443,"date":"2013-03-11T22:36:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T21:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=4443"},"modified":"2013-03-11T22:37:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T21:37:42","slug":"buckets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2013\/03\/11\/buckets\/","title":{"rendered":"Buckets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nSo we&rsquo;ve been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2012\/12\/29\/birds-3\/\">feeding birds<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2013\/01\/30\/rat\/\">and other critters<\/a>) this winter. I&rsquo;ve streamlined the process for this season. There are no more plastic bags and no more mixing. Instead we now buy bird food in large buckets. I have a one-litre stainless steel measuring jug with which I scoop up half a litre of pre-shelled sunflower seeds from one bucket, to which I add a double fistful of peanuts from the other bucket, and that&rsquo;s it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNow that the season is almost over, we had seven or eight large empty buckets in clear plastic. Instead of throwing them away, I gave them to Adrian&rsquo;s nursery this morning, for the kids to play with.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI thought that maybe they would use them for storing and carrying things. Or maybe they would put the lids on and build towers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNo.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen I got there in the afternoon, I was met by four or five kids, each one wearing a bucket on his head like a space helmet. It was spooky.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe staff told me that these were not helmets, the buckets were mufflers, and they (the staff) were very pleased.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nUnfortunately I have no photos of the buckets in use because Adrian was tired and not in the mood. But here&rsquo;s what they look like with about 5,5 kg of bird food inside. Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plantagen.se\/\">Plantagen.se<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Sunflower_seeds.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we&rsquo;ve been feeding birds (and other critters) this winter. I&rsquo;ve streamlined the process for this season. There are no more plastic bags and no more mixing. Instead we now buy bird food in large buckets. I have a one-litre stainless steel measuring jug with which I scoop up half a litre of pre-shelled sunflower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[759],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life_with_kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4443"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4449,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443\/revisions\/4449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}