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That Dar... ah, sweet lovable kitty

Today we had the first good snow storm of the season. There have been others but they didn't amount to anything.

When i got home the power was out. And, The kitten had turned over my five gallon tote of finished compost. I had put it in the house to keep warm. There was compost all over the living room and kitchen floors. He apparently had a ball dive bombing through it all day. The compost was almost dry so at least it was easy to sweep up. But i was surpri… Continue

I checked out the bin today expecting to have to bail out a sea of mud and was surprised. The whole thing is drying out a lot faster than i would have expected. And i had gotten the new tote and screen all ready to filter the water out too.

But it does look as thou it got wetter before things started getting dryer. The hole i made and the extra cardboard up top did make a remarkable difference.

First i put 4 layers of cardboard on top of the cardboard that was already there. To try to keep mor… Continue

I had to chuckle when i reread one of my own comments on my last blog. "So i added water to the catchment area, i don't plan to harvest again until spring, so extra water down there won't hurt anything"

That has to be one of the worst predictions i have ever made. As you may recall I put a coil of heating hose in the catchment area. With so little air movement everything is very wet. Steam? rises up through the compost wetting everything in the FT.

The whole thing is wetter then any tote i hav… Continue

Despite all my planning for cold weather i wasn't expecting it to hit quit so fast. Just 3 days ago the weather was in the low 80'sF (25C). Two nights ago it snowed in the higher mountains. This morning i had to scrapping ice off the car windows.

It only got to 60 (15C) today. I was unpleasantly surprised to find my worm bin even colder when i got home this evening, 48F (9C). I still haven't bought the sheet insulation for the bin so i was forced to improvise. I wrapped the bin and the bucket o… Continue

In town today i spotted a old Isuzu pickup with a "support global worming" sticker on the tailgate. My thought. Well its a small world and I'm not all that alone here abouts. Later during the 30 mile drive home i spotted the Isuzu again, right in front of me when turning off onto my road. Real surprised to find he only lives 3 miles from me. Kind of makes me feel like i am not so alone in this worming thing.

And then there was another nice surprise. A pile of horse poo in my driveway. Couldn't… Continue