Posted by drjinx 8 (My Page) on Sun, Dec 13, 09 at 9:43

I liberated 5 bags of leaves from being collected by yard waste pickup yesterday, but I left about 10 more behind because my pile isn't big enough for them.
I think I am only a mild or moderate wacko. :( I'll have to work on that.

I don't collect compost from restaurants yet, but some of my friends send vegetable waste home with me from parties. :)

I also got a load of the "guts" after the Halloween Pumpkin Shoot and after the Pumpkin Carving Party. I am still finding pumpkin seeds in my car. I had sprouts in my pile until the first frost; I guess it is not hot enough.

Jean Marie

Posted by pt03 3 Southern Manitoba (My Page) on Sun, Dec 13, 09 at 10:03

"Halloween Pumpkin Shoot"
Wow, you 'Mericans will hunt anything!!! Do you have to like set up blinds or decoys? I already assumed there is a "season" for this.

:-)

Lloyd

Is it "halloween, pumpkin shoot" or "halloween pumpkin, shoot"?

I'm sure there are family traditions handed down generation to generation on this so I'd like to make sure I got it straight.

"Oh, the humanity!!"

No wait, that was turkeys wasn't it?

Lloyd

The shooting of pumpkins in celebration of Halloween.

That's why he's got seeds in his car, right?

She was relieved to get rid of them and I was happy to have them! She asked me if I needed some plastic bags to lay down in the back of the car because the bags were wet and messy, but it just so happens that there was already some flattened cardboard laying back there that I had collected for sheet composting. :)

Having seen my decent sized compost piles, a friend mentioned that come spring he would like to have some for his garden. I replied, "For you. sure! It's worth $50 for 40 lbs". He scoffed, "Fifty dollars"! I had to explain that with all the gathering of materials, correct ratios, temperature checks, turning the pile, turning again and again, and most important - pouring over GardenWeb posts to learn what the heck you're doin'! DARN RIGHT IT'S WORTH $12.50/lb.!

He's been a really good friend so he can as much as he needs. Like another friend once told me, "A good friend will help you move. A REALLY good friend will help you move a body"!

"Moab was a great place to tune up for our world championship in Delaware next week. Plus, it has a higher elevation and thus thinner air, which allowed us to shoot farther," Eschborn explained.

La Estrella pumpkins are the bestest for this kinda thing. Bred for aerodynamics.

Lloyd

You’re a Wacko composter if you compost meat, seafood, Dairy products, and Fats. That’s what some people think, because they would rather have that spoil old meat and dairy be preserved in the plastic lake full of garbage that is then sealed air tight to never decompose.

ROFL. These posts are sooo hilarious. I thought I was just super wierd when I started to get so excited about composting. Now I know I'm just a wacko. And that's fine by me!

Val

Correction for compost wackos:

"A good friend will help you compost. A REALLY good friend will help you compost a body"!

I think jpw wins the (100% cotton) compost junkie blue ribbon!

"several black garbage bags of rabbit bedding...marinating in the garage."

You might be a compost wacko if you have stuff marinating in your garage!

Seriously! Immedetiately after posting that line I fiquired there was a 99.9% chance some "Compost Whacko" would think of that. I have been checking posts to see how long it would take to come up. Not too long!

So... a body would be "greens" then, right?

Will there be a smell in a pile that size? Seems kinda small! :-)

Am I a wacko for lurking behind grocery stores scouting out new pallets for the bigger pile?

Pam

Val (who is busy writing down the reference for future use)

Sorry for getting mad at you for saying 'If it brings you to tears to think about landfills where things are sealed up in plastic, never to decompose.' Many people say 'it brings you to tears to think about landfills where things are sealed' as an insult to me because of what I compost. So I'm sorry for getting mad at you.

Sorry,
Forestelves

I finally got it and now I can't stop laughing. Should be plural though - don't cha think?

If you have the urge to compost a forest elf.

Val

I fear someone will be lurking behind the morgue, or worse - creeping about a cemetary in the wee hours of the morning now that a recipe and ratios thereof have been mulled over and discussed! : )

You might be a compost wacko if you investigate how to use dog droppings as a compost/mulch.

You might be a compost wacko if you spend big money on a chipper/mulcher to make more and better compost.

Val

-Mike

Someone here, in fact, did have a policeman stop to see what she was up to when she was collecting bags of leaves.

These drums are probably too small but work well in the summer.

For the most part games are over-rated and when they are over you got no product except talk about the game??

You might be a compost wacko if you post a message that you love those pictures;

You might be a compost wacko if you give your husband a copy of the pictures instead of a Christmas list!

Y'all're *all* a bunch of compost wackos!

Curt :-)

when your heart skips a beat when you see 'pretty' pictures of monster composters

when you know that the wackiest composters are way saner than anyone on the outside world

and if you can't imagine anyone not loving the Red Green Show

Is Red Green actually a composter? I think I've seen most of his shows altho cannot remember seeing his compost bin. Is it wrapped with duct tape? ;-) Does that speed the process? Please tell as Red Green is one of my heroes! Or at least one of my fav comics.

Anyone else have really nice dreams about harvesting unlimited wheelbarrows of lovely compost just in time for the spring garden wake up? Do I need to get a life? ;-)

Pam

You might be a compost wacko if you check in "to see what the wackos are up to"!

It rained for the last half hour I was out there!!!

Curt :-o

There was trash all over the road, cellophane, plastic, paper, a couple of broken toys...& about a dozen grapes.

You know you're a compost wacko when you clean up the mess your dogs made & put everything back in the trash can...except the grapes, which you take home!

Y'all might find this blog post amusing.

You're a whacko when you bookmark that compost song thing.

http://eclectech.co.uk/compostbin.php

..

THANKS ROTT! :)

Dang! I should have thrown that in the compost bucket!

Val

...if you're planning to rescue your lazy neighbor's leaves that are still shoved in bags with pumpkin faces on them. Gold mine!

That hurts *me*, Val.

but it reminds me...

last summer I was using my handy little electric chain saw to cut off a limb that was pressing down on the fence, & instead of standing on a ladder, I just reached up....
angling my arm so that the chain caught the edge of my glove & pulled my wrist into the chain.

When the paramedics asked to see the saw (to be sure that it hadn't been left someplace where someone else could get hurt, & to be sure that there really was a chainsaw in this day of domestic abuse), I led them to it.

There it lay, next to a puddle of blood on the ground.

"Oh", I said. "Look. I fertilized the ground."

Poor paramedics;
they have to listen to stuff like this all the time & decide whether the person is in shock or is as crazy as a bedbug.

I, of course, was in shock.

That's my story & I'm stickin' to it.

Someone caught me calling a pile of decaying leaves "beautiful" the other day. I didn't think a thing about it, but the look on their face was priceless.

"Beautiful?!" ... more for me, I guess.

Curt :-)

Kim

When we looked in the attic and saw the bat poo, my husband saw the look on my face... he knew exactly what I was thinking.

Lets see..
Ice Cream (Sweet tooth)
Paper plates (Kids)
Sprite 12 pack container (something for mom)

:)Laura

:) Laura

ps LOL!!!

Have we run out of new compost wackos? Have the confirmed wackos not conducted any new experiments? Is the weather nice enough that everyone is spending their time rolling in finished compost instead of posting?

In order to bump this thread, here's my own story. Sorry it's not as wacky as yours:

You might be a compost wacko if:
instead of paying to have your leaves hauled away in the fall, you pay the city to dump a truckload of leaves at your door in the spring.

My leaf pile should be arriving today. While much of the shredded leaf mass will be used for mulch in the perennial beds, the remainder should supply the browns I need for the summer compost pile.

~CA

Curt~

Lloyd

hortster :)

Lloyd

Don't know how the word "character" got left out of my first post. I meant to say "if your favorite children's show character is this lovely lady"

You might be a compost wacko if later on a summer evening you make a quick run out to add kitchen scraps to the pile, and you notice when the neighbor has her bathroom light on , it shines directly onto the pile, like glorious full moon. Then you proceed to turn the pile rather than just bury the scraps as was the original intent when you picked up the pitchfork.

Nyahh!!!

You might also end up in jail! ;-)

Lloyd

Me : "I was in my backyard with a pitchfork turning my compost pile."
I then proceed to explain the proper C/N ratio to compost a human body.
Instant respect. Good times !
:)

I just read something on the Texas Forum which inspired this:

"You might be a compost wacko if you add so much stinky material that buzzards circle your house."

You might be a comost wacko if you keep 2 broom handles, cut to size, in your trunk so you can prop it open to stuff in more bags of leaves & such.