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Squirrels have managed to destroy our bird feeder twice.  I put together this incredibly simple squirrel feeder that will hopefully keep them away from the bird feeder.

Step 1: Find a scrap of wood.

Step 2: Put a screw through it.  I used a drywall screw, because that is all I had.  A wood screw with a larger thread would be better.

Step 3: Nail it to a tree.

Step 4: Attach corn.

Hopefully the squirrels will find this soon.  I’ll probably update with pictures of them on it.

Both for the same post too!

After my post on the PC pop up book took off, I decided to look around for other interesting pop-up books I could find and write about.  Looking around on Amazon I found lots of interesting ones, but they have been covered over and over again by other bloggers.  Eventually I decided to sort by price and found all sorts of interesting books.

The most expensive pop-up book on Amazon is The Wizard Of Oz Pop Up Limited Edition.

Here is an image of the inside of the commemorative re-release, which I believe is the same as the original:

You can find many other images and videos online, and it is obvious that this is a very beautiful and well-designed book.  I would love to have it, but it is listed at $1655.29 on Amazon.

The next most expensive is The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (Limited Edition): A Pop-up Book for $1400, which is apparently a pop-up edition of a book by Steven King and Kees Moerbeek.  I’m not sure what makes this worth so much - the images on Amazon show rather dull pop-ups.

Next up is the very long-titled Buck Rogers 25th Century Featuring Buddy and Allura in Strange Adventures in the Spider Ship, The Illustrated Pop-Up Edition.  The pop-ups aren’t fancy, but I love the style of the artwork.

It is listed for $1070.18 on Amazon, but the pictures are from this eBay auction, which is listed at $675.

The next book, is a 1930’s Disney pop-up, The Pop-up Silly Symphonies Containing Babes in the Woods and King Neptune for $1059.73.  I found images here.

The last entry in my list is another Disney book, Mickey Mouse in King Arthur’s Court , listed at$874.71.  The images are from an eBay auction.

My pop-up book post has been getting ridiculous numbers of hits from StumbleUpon.  I’ve noticed that they seem to leave more comments and browse more of my site than the average visitor.  They’ve also earned me enough Amazon commission to cover my domain name and a few months of hosting!  Thank you StumbleUpon users!

I’ve taken the Adsense ads off of this blog.  They were hardly ever relevant, and I don’t consider the $10/year income to be worth making my site look worse.