Monday, April 25, 2011

My Latest Toy

You guessed right.





Sam gets truckloads of poop.  I get a composter.   I wonder what it says about me that I'm still jealous of her?

I was going to build a basic wood and chicken wire frame for a compost pile and then plant climbers all around it.  The problem is, I've said I'd do that for at least 5 summers and I still don't have a place for compost.  So, a few weeks ago, when I found myself wandering through the garden equipment section at Costco and saw compost tumblers at a really good price, I decided I had to have one.  Little did I know that it'd take over 6 hours to put together or that it'd be big enough to second as a bomb shelter.

Either way, my dad and I spent the afternoon doing yard work and loading it up with everything we could think of.  There's a long way's to go to get this thing even close to full, but it's a step in the right direction.

Let the composting begin!

5 comments:

  1. Let me know how the, uh, smell goes.

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  2. I'm actually jealous of you! Those tumblers are fantastic..and one of us is spending rainy days with a wheelbarrow and 3 truckloads of composted horse crap. Compost soup. Bleh.
    At least it doesn't stink.

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  3. We saw that last time we were at Costco, almost bought it too!

    moosepants

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  4. My parents go to the dump once a year, compost and burn almost everything. They are Mr. Greenjeans.

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