Compostin' with the best of them

This is post is dedicated to my lovely stalkers friends Christy and Amanda. Maybe someday they'll actually make a comment! :P

If I'm really very honest with myself, I'd love to be a true blue living off the grid, growing my own food, dying my own handwoven cloth Earth Mother-type chick. Unforutnately I'm also incredibly lazy, and like McDonald's a little more than I should. At any rate, I do the best I can.

We have a little garden going, with plans for a bigger one (eventually)


Remember Madeline's cabbage from last year? Here's Bella's cabbage:


My next step on the path to Earth Mother-hood involved a bit of the wood James brought home. I've been wanting a Composting Bin for awhile, and a few months I ago I came across this blog post. I loved that this family had used recycled wood to build their bin. When I showed it to James, he said he could build it, no problem.

And he did!

James assembled the sides and laid everything out


while I pulled all of these dandelions out of a square foot spot in the yard. Is it just our yard or is the dandelion population out of control this year?


It was about at this point that we realized just how big this bin was going to acutally be.


And it was. BIG


Since I was taking pictures, I told James to get inside and lay down so we could show the scale. He said it was wrong that I made him lay down in his own coffin. Hee! Notice the dandelion weeds in his cold, dead hands. :P


It was right after I snapped this picture that noticed our next door neighbor had wandered over to see what we were up to. He could only shake his head when he saw James laying in the bin. I told the neighbor it's wht we did to keep our marriage exciting. ;)

And here's the finished product!




CAUTION! Manly man pumped up on testosterone!


So now you're probably asking yourself what our next project is. Well, it's something that James has been promising me since Valentine's Day 2003...