fluke racks

twigs and leaves from last night's storms

later today planning to clean out the fridge, should have a boatload of stuff to add then

rice and water ... still really hot here

Weeds, icky halves of bell peppers forgotten in the fridge, strawberry hulls, weeds, some leftover (cooked) rice, torn up egg cartons and crushed egg shells, weeds, icky parts of some grape tomatoes and did I mention weeds?

And some shredded newspaper to try and balance out all my greens. I love living on the prairies, but our lack of trees seriously inhibits my leaf-collecting!

bananas

Dead flowers from my birthday bouquets (next year can they please give me real plants?)
UCG, corn husks, melon rinds, bananas, beets, all the veggies and fruit leftovers, leaves from summer teas, newspapers. the pile is fast and usable soon. All the cooking water goes into the garden. Tomato plants trimmings, annuals that gave up the ghost in the heat.

I cleaned out the freezer so added a lot of stuff I've ignored for over a year. Buried the meat items well and turned the entire pile on top. Layered with grass clippings, weeds, and my usual bin of kitchen goodies which was mostly apple cores, orange rinds, egg shells, tea leaves, onion and garlic peels, paper towels, avocado rinds and stones - those last break down extremely slowly or never, but it's fun to see them appear and reappear as I turn the pile. LOL Wet the entire thing down as I layered it so hope it's finished enough in a month or so to use as mulch.

Everything from the freezer was frozen solid and I wondered how long it would take to thaw and start to decompose covered with grass and sawdust with ambient air temps at 80F.

18 egg shells, coffee grounds, apple cores, strawberry tops, grape stems, toilet paper rolls, dryer lint, dog and human hair, some spinach that got funky, celery that froze in back of fridge and some shredded paper.

1 dead baby skunk at 11:30 p.m.
shredded leaves on top.
I was thinking about throwing the dog in there too, but since he just had a bath to get rid of the shunk spray, I decided not to. :-)

oops! skunk spray, not shunk spray!!

Cores and skins of two kilos of apples, it's pie time.
Melon, watermelon rinds, boy it gets soggy in there this time of year.
banana skins, UCG, veggie extras, etc.
Dried leaves of all the crocosmia, cut up to smaller bits when I was bored and needed to be outside before the mosquitoes came out, dead plants that gave up the ghost in the heat.
Pulled tom plants that never really fruited (all were volunteers from the compost). Learned my lesson, don't trust those volunteers.
The AC's of all the neighbors are going full time so I have, oddly enough, lots of water. Man-o-man it amazes me how many people don't collect it, all that water going to waste here where we have NO rain at all. Silly poops.