Played around in the mud a little today after I got home from the dentist. The missus has been wanting a mulch/compost pile for a while, so I gathered up all the old used cinder blocks I had and made a 3-sided pit about 5 feet wide and 8 feet long, two blocks high. Got the 'bota VERY muddy again, well, at least the floors and tires. I won't take pictures of the pit, because it's butt ugly. I took a level out there with the best of intentions, but it stood next to a tree the whole time I was moving stuff around. I laced the blocks together so it wouldn't fall over, but it ain't gonna stand up to much impact. The location is temporary for the duration of reclaiming the yard and putting in indigenous flowering plants that are low maintenance, like azaleas, St. John's Wort (it's like crack for bumblebees), and if I can find 'em, some greybeards and dogwoods. I don't normally do ugly work, but I had to keep telling myself, "It's a compost pile, it's a compost pile". Put a few buckets full of the chips from the WC-68 in it (which are already rotting from being wet most of the spring), and now have a much more accessible place to dump my grass clippings seperately from leaf debris. Gonna try to put nothing but veggie waste from the kitchen and mulchable yard waste in it until we find out if it's too close to the house (about 50 yards away). Then maybe some bones and stuff for ammonia to accelerate the composting. I suspect we're going to have some very happy possums and racoons back there. Dumped some peat tailings in it, as well as some potting soil that was little more than crushed bark. Maybe we'll get some stuff to improve the yard out of it. I'll put in a second pit for turning/storage later so we can keep the first pit composting as much as possible. Hopefully, we'll get some stuff to improve our yard with this. The neighbors across the highway have some livestock, so gonna see if they'll let me clean up a few cow cookies to add to it too.