Workin' Hard or Hardly Workin'
I'm still here. Just very busy that's all. There're the usual fall time sinks of band performances and football games. Then I've agreed to be scoutmaster of my son's Boy Scout troop for 6 months while the real scoutmaster is on sabbatical. I'm still spinning up on that. Last but not least there's "The Project".
D-'s Eagle Scout project is in high gear and making sure he stays on track has kept him, and by extension, me, very busy. He's building compost bins. Four of them, each one 6 feet wide by 3 feet tall by 8 feet deep. More than 5 cubic yards each. That's a lot of compost.
Here's the progress so far. The bins are situated in an area that had to be excavated by a Bobcat. To complete the job, D- is lifting and toting wood, digging a whole lot of dirt, hauling rocks, and doing all sorts of manly things. I get to help, which for a guy who is as incurably lazy as I am, takes some motivation. I assiduously avoid jobs that require me to get out wheelbarrows, shovels, picks, and post-hole diggers, all of which this Eagle project requires.
Once this project is complete he has to write a report and get his Eagle Scout application in to the Boy Scouts before he turns 18 in mid-November.
Bless his heart, I think he's going to make it.
K-
Big project. I can't wait to see what his career path is going to end up being.
The only thing I know about composting is that used coffee grounds make good compost.
No kidding that's a lot of compost. Where's he building this? School? Our little home composter, which is about 3'x3'x3' -- hey, ONE cubic yard -- handles all our compostable kitchen scraps and a small part of our yard debris.
Dan, the 4 bins are going to hold not only compost but mulch, wood chips, and other things. It's at a church that sits on 14 acres, so there's a lot of debris that accumulates.
K-
Cool beans. I'm a composting fool and I love that project. Did you get to drive the Bobcat? They're a blast in open spaces.
No, but I didn't want to drive it; I'm sure I would have destroyed something. D- wanted to drive but I wouldn't let him (BSA rules). The church groundskeeper was experienced using one so he did the whole excavation in only a couple of hours.
K-