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Sun. March 5, 2006, 09:06pm PST
The bin is fín
Today I finished our homemade compost bin. Since the project's inception there's been little more progress than gather up five wooden palettes. Yesterday and today I started and completed this project. Today's round of work went pretty well. I first had to make a trip to a nearby Home Depot to grab a few bits of hardware (nails, and screws and such) and some small wire mesh. We tossed a couple of bike hooks in for the good of the order since we weren't spending real money but instead gift card money. Yeah, cuttin' loose indeed. After the self checkout fussed with every little L-bracket we scanned by repeating "Please wait for assistance" we made it out of the store before beating that machine with a nearby claw hammer. After lunch I finished the compost bin up nicely by lining the sides of it with the wire mesh and reinforcing everything with some heavy duty screws and L-brackets. We moved the beast around to the side of the house and I shoveled a pile of compost we'd started not long ago into the finished enclosure. From there Sarah dumped some more organic bits in and our journey into the compost began.
I'm glad I can be one of those "men of the house" that knows how to finish a project up in decent time. Don't get me wrong -- there's plenty to do around here but I tend to take things one project at a time. Keep your eyes on the Projects section for a full homemade compost bin write-up.
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3/7/2006 @ 3:30pm
nice on the compost bin! right now we have an ever-increasing pile under a tree in our backyard. no l-brackets or anything, although we're hoping to get a bit more compost-active as the spring/summer months come rolling through.
any ideas on what you're going to do with it? although we're going to have a garden, we definitely generate too much compost to know what to do with? know of any tacoma-based places to take it?
by Dave
3/7/2006 @ 10:00pm
I don't know of any place that'll take the stuff but I really don't want to part with it if I can avoid doing so. We have plenty of flowers and plants around here that will love them some tasty compost from time to time. We'll just have to wait and see how the pile turns out. My goal is to turn it over on a crisp morning and see steam rising from it.
by KevinFreitas