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June 23, 2007
Another Working Weekend
I built this.
My goal? To lower the property value of my house to keep the assessment vultures at bay.
Well, and to hold/create compost. (Definition here for you city-dwellers) Gardens like dead things, and compost is full of them. Since we're gardening now, I figured starting some compost would be a good idea. And because we have critters and live in the city, a compost pile that included food scraps would be untidy, so I built this horror to hold what is basically a pile of rotting material.
It's ugly because I figured I'd use wood I had on hand from tearing down various shelves and other useless structures around the house and barn instead of spending $100 at Home Depot. The bin is going to hold smelly decaying things - no reason to get fancy.
I know I didn't exactly build this thing to compost-perfectionist specifications, but oh well. I figure the stuff will rot eventually, I just want to keep the groundhogs and skunks out of it. My in-laws have a compost pile that is basically just a pile in the woods, and it produces some fine smelly rich soil. I figure this will do.
Time for those earthworms to get to work!
A garden update. The plants seem to be doing well. We just might get some food out of this thing.
Of course, the day wasn't all work. I spent part of it at the guy playground better known as the dump. Friends and I had some stuff to throw away, and in the process of getting rid of it, broke all the glass we could find.
But not before we hacked a chair to death with a sledgehammer.
All in all, a good day.
Posted by Peter at June 23, 2007 08:11 PM