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Ranch Chemistry at the Old Faye Corral

Older Whiskey

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5 AM PST 7/8/26

Another hot day coming up. Only thing on my agenda today is wash one window that a bird hit, yesterday, and apparently it knocked the poo out of it. The poo was purple like we see in the spring when the birds chow down on ripe mulberries, but in mid July, that color of bird guano is a mystery. Perhaps the bird was constipated and it took this traumatic blow to loosen its bowel. In any case, the purple that runs into white at the bottom, wasn't quite a Picasso, so it will be removed. The bird was slightly dazed and flew off, so no funeral today for my feathered friend.

7 AM PST 7/8/26

Well, the crime scene windows are now clean. I still need to clean my nails, compacted with dried insect excrement, from using them as scrapers. Now, a little adventure in chemistry occurred when I sprayed the purple graduated to white bird poo, with a glass cleaner containing ammonia. It turns this colorful presentation into a nauseous yellow, reminiscent of the contents of a ripe baby diaper.

Although I took chemistry for two years and passed with low flying colors, I was puzzled by this color transformation. Would the bird poo have turned yellow if it was just regular off white poo? I asked AI already knowing that this would stump it. I doubted AI knew about purple bird poo.

I typed in ---- "Why does purple bird poo turned yellow when sprayed with ammonia?"

AI response --- "Purple bird poop can turn yellow when sprayed with ammonia due to the chemical reaction between the uric acid in the droppings and the ammonia, which alters the color. This reaction can change the appearance of the droppings, making them look different than their original color."

My verbal response to AI was, "No one likes a smarty pants."
 

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