Value? Pfft!!!

I'm continually displeased and even disgusted by the perpetual lying and cheating of local and international corporations claiming more "bang for your buck".

The most recent of my disappointments manifested in a big ol' bag o' bird seed.

Yeah, you heard me.

We regularly fill the little log cabin shaped bird feeder in our backyard. And load the dried corn cobs on the squirrel feeder contraption that the squirrels never seem able to properly operate (they should have had a squirrel design it). Its entertaining, and brings some semblance of serenity to this suburban tract house development. I try.

So, in buying BIG bags of seed, for what seems to be a better price, I've either gotten a less than savory ratio of seed the birds like, to seeds they care nothing for. Or SAND! Yeah, SAND. I was just removing the cabin from the tree to refill it with seed, and there's an entire layer of sand at the bottom of the feeder.

Always in search of a different explanation to keep my blood pressure from boiling, I think that it could have something to do with giving the birds something they need to help their digestion. Just like you give chickens hard grit, if they are held captive for your egg-laying pleasure. But SAND is not listed on the label of ingredients.

So, I'm willing to bet it has everything to do with trying to fool the public in letting them believe they are getting more product for less money.

Throwing that 50lb bag over my shoulder, pulling a hamstring while tripping on an exposed root in the front yard, snorting the excess dust (with no added benefit) while transferring it into other containers to keep other varmints out of it (even though they probably won't eat sand either) -- NOT value.

Sand. I'm worn out!