Am I crazy?

Tuesday evening I'm in my kitchen, peeling broccoli, onions and all sorts of other veggies and I happy as a clam thinking about putting handfulls of scraps into my kitchen compost pail. I'm thinking - what a feast - for the worms! I'll tell that story to the 17 coming for dinner!

....and the meal was shared by all the earth's creatures......... ;-)

If you're crazy, you're in good company. I was shopping for the dinner coming up tomorrow, and got so happy picturing all the stuff I would compost from it!

I think composting is our way of including, and thanking, Nature for what we've been given. It makes us part of the circle, not just pirates of it.

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!!

I am so glad to hear I am not the only one who gets excited about adding to my compost pile. I am getting a name for myself in the neighborhood. LOL I have been knocking on doors and asking if I can clean up all the leaves on neighbors lawns to put in my compost piles for next spring. I get this weird look and they say sure. I have been so happy to get the leaves that I do all the work for them. NOW I KNOW I AM CRAZY!! LOL I even have some friends that put bags of leaves on my drive way and they think I am nuts for wanting them. It is so funny.

My kids are getting into it too. My 4 year old likes bananas and he gives me the peel and tells me it is for the compost pile. It's great!

Lissy

I have been getting my neighbor's leaves for maybe 20 years. There are now 6 less ash trees over there so volume has decreased.
Another neighbor left 14 bags of nice leaves...some of them slightly damp and incredibly packed densely. I spreaded them out and backed the riding mower over them about three times and made the nicest leaf mulch.

On my way home,Tue., I noticed a larg stack of paper leaf bags, so I ask the man for them,and he said if I''ll take all of them,it would be ok.I loaded my old pick-up with what I thaught wet leaves,because of the weight,and cleaned up the few dead branches,he thanked me, and I him, got home to unload,and found that every bag was full of neatley shreadded leaves.I'll do that any day. Mike