coffee grounds and rotting produce

Well everyone, as a follow up to the post about failures; I would like to announce that I made another attempt at building that compost bin and succeeded.

How do you even use a semi-colon?  Can someone google that for me please?  Thank you.

Anyways, I built it all by myself after 2 failed attempts.  I decided that I should no longer seek the advice of the hardware store employees when doing a project.  Had I just gone with my gut in the first place I would have spent less money and saved myself some frustrations. 

After four trips to Ace and in the end only spending about 7 dollars, I have a three year composting system.  I'll add a door later.  I would have only spent about 2 dollars but the dumb nails the first guy sold me spilled everywhere and I didn't feel right about returning them since about 1/3 of them were bent because the wood was too hard.


Oh and I forgot to mention that my neighbor decided to sit on the back of his truck, smoke a cigarette and claim to be the foreman while I worked. I didn't find it the least bit humorous but it rather made me feel very self-conscious, so I just left it all there and went to the hardware store hoping he'd be gone when I returned, which he was.

I am also down another god forsaken rose bush that nearly defeated me.  It's been a productive evening.  I am so greatful for the fact that it doesn't get dark until 8:30pm these days.  I can only imagine the kinds of things I would get done if it was like this year round.


Enough about my obsession with weather.  Here are the photos:

after bringing these home i realized they were next to useless and found some better ones at the local hardware store

coming up with a plan

in process - after i figured out how to effectively drive in the screws

those are the rose bushes that were previously everywhere

I plan on putting two panels on the front that can easily be removed for stirring purposes and shoveling out the dirt.