Penny For Your Thoughts

Or Penny for your water trough. Him, who regularly thinks outside the box and uses the internet, said he recently came across advice for keeping the water trough algae-free. Not a catfish, but a couple pennies. Ok, throw a couple in.

Not that I don't routinely and regularly scrub out the buckets. I do. Sometimes I have to because the boys are not the only drinkers. I know the birds (big and small), and bees drink from the trough, as do the foxes and any thing else that can reach.

Sometimes we've had a fatality, and am horrified that I have to dump a drowned ground squirrel or bird out of the water. Or that the birds have used it as a toilet .

HOWEVER - the penny does, indeed, seem to be working.