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Sun. March 5, 2006, 09:06pm PST
The bin is fín
Today I finished our homemade compost bin. Since the project's inception there's been little more progress than gather up five wooden palettes. Yesterday and today I started and completed this project. Today's round of work went pretty well. I first had to make a trip to a nearby Home Depot to grab a few bits of hardware (nails, and screws and such) and some small wire mesh. We tossed a couple of bike hooks in for the good of the order since we weren't spending real money but instead gift card money. Yeah, cuttin' loose indeed. After the self checkout fussed with every little L-bracket we scanned by repeating "Please wait for assistance" we made it out of the store before beating that machine with a nearby claw hammer. After lunch I finished the compost bin up nicely by lining the sides of it with the wire mesh and reinforcing everything with some heavy duty screws and L-brackets. We moved the beast around to the side of the house and I shoveled a pile of compost we'd started not long ago into the finished enclosure. From there Sarah dumped some more organic bits in and our journey into the compost began.
I'm glad I can be one of those "men of the house" that knows how to finish a project up in decent time. Don't get me wrong -- there's plenty to do around here but I tend to take things one project at a time. Keep your eyes on the Projects section for a full homemade compost bin write-up.
Sun. March 5, 2006, 09:18pm PST
Oscar cut offs
No, I'm not talking about a wardrobe choice a la Jessica Simpson down tonight's red carpet. I'm talking about how winners of tonight's Academy Awards were repeatedly cut off before finishing up their acceptance speeches. I'll admit that I only tuned in to the last hour or so of the festivities but I was still blown away by the crass disrespect shown to a few Oscar winners that weren't allowed their moment in the spotlight. It usually happens in those larger groups of winners wherein the shows director takes the pause between accepting parties to cue up the orchestra and cut to a wide camera shot and into commercial. It happened more than once tonight and even to the two producers accepting the award for Best Picture. I was so hoping Jon Stewart would step in and make a witty comment about the practice but it never came and the curtain fell on, from what I saw, another dull Oscar awards show. Much like the large screen, cinema-going experience they were "celebrating" tonight due to ever dropping box office numbers (thank you DVDs and HDTVs) the show seemed to be lacking in substance and spirit. Instead, on what is arguably the biggest night of some Oscar winner's lives and a great feel-good opportunity on a network that prides itself on feel-good shows like Extreme Home Makeover and Medical Miracles, tonight's Oscars stunk.
Oh, and I'd like to thank--
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3/7/2006 @ 3:30pm
nice on the compost bin! right now we have an ever-increasing pile under a tree in our backyard. no l-brackets or anything, although we're hoping to get a bit more compost-active as the spring/summer months come rolling through.
any ideas on what you're going to do with it? although we're going to have a garden, we definitely generate too much compost to know what to do with? know of any tacoma-based places to take it?
by Dave