Our bird bath

Many years ago I found the most adorable little concrete bird bath at, of all places, Walmart.  Yah, I spend way too much money there, but I digress.  It was time for a new bird bath after our old one tipped over, got a split in the molded plastic, and was leaking more than could be reasonably fixed.  I bought the little version because it was just so cute, and because my neighbor was delighted with hers.

All these years later, it still makes me smile, but … bird baths get gross.  Like slimy green gross.  So to fix that issue, one day my wandering mind came upon an idea.  What if I could find a bowl that could fit in the bird bath, and be replaced, say every week?  Well, at first I used those waxy paper bowls.  They used to last about 5 days before disintegrating, and I didn’t feel environmentally unconscientious because they literally decomposed in as many days.  That worked for quite a few years, and were even pretty, but the last batch I bought, even though the same brand, was much flimsier.  So, sadly I have gone to styrofoam.  They stay clean for about a week.  I have noticed that with the cleaner water I am getting a lot more “sippers” than ever before.