I'll make a comment on the size of the bins. When deciding on the size of each bin, one might consider the materials you will be composting. For example, if one expected to use a mix of sawdust and leaves as the 'browns', one might make the dimensions 3' by 3'. If one expected leaves to be the main 'browns', one might select 4' by 4' for bin size. If wood chips were expected to be the main 'brown' (without small filler stuff like sawdust), maybe a 5' by 5' size would be a good choice. My mesh bins are 5' by 8' by 2' high, and can reach 150F or more if the mix is optimal. The reason for the different sizes is due to air movement. Movement thru wood chips is easier than thru sawdust or very finely shredded leaves. The third number, height, can be less than the other two if the compost pile is sitting on the ground, which can also store heat. Since it is easier to turn a low pile, my compost piles have never been more than 2.5 feet high in recent years.

Read too much moisture as in rain could be culprit. ..... Have cherry in back that had huge harvest in June. Will need to treat it with something as per caution. ==>>> not really .... in tree time ... this thing has been dying for many years .. improper pruning.. huge gaping wounds.. etc ... perhaps even improper planting.. if it was severely pot bound.. and just dropped in the ground .... the rain may have put it over the top ... on the path to death ... but it wasnt the cause of its eventual decline ... in no way.. would i equate this problem.. with anything going on in the backyard .. and i would not suggest you prophylactically start spraying that tree .. simply because of THIS tree ... there is a fruit forum ... and those peeps have all kinds of spray protocols ... but again.. they dont do it.. because of some tree in front of the house ... ken

Pssst Lars, I do need your entire record collection please, but I think there might start to be some loading issues soon. No pressure, but we may need a new thread, or, you should definitely do this again soon/at some point:)

I didn't receive any advice or read anything new in 2022, but from reading this forum the most valuable part to me which I learned the importance of in 2022 was the advice of getting rid of things and not leave it to my heirs to deal with. This advice really hit home for me here in December and since dealing with two houses in a different country one where this was done (and still lots of stuff) and one where it wasn't I'm making 2023 the year of reducing the stuff we have. I also learned the hard way that some things that I need to remedy for my family after dealing with it in another country and although the law there is a little different the same issues are in the US as well and I think even harder to deal with here due to less automation after someone passes away. I wish I had known more about this and pushed it more with my family as things are complicated since my mom has Alzheimer's and my stepdad passed away just a short time after a diagnosis and two weeks later my dad also passed. I've suddenly faced some real medical problems (some unknowns at this time) and will take care of this myself as well, although I still hope my medical issue will turn out to be something simple vs. the worst case scenarios. I'm dealing with cognitive issues and horrible memory loss and I'm only in my early 50s. 1. Highly recommend creating a durable power of attorney for someone to handle your finances if you're unable as well as any medical. I know in Texas these are separate so I'm guessing it may vary from state to state. 2. Make sure your will and testament has a person assigned to handle the estate and make sure you have a will and testament. 3. Also if you have underage children make sure to cover what will happen to them in the event of something happening to both parents. Assign a legal guardian in your will (or whatever your state/country requires) and an order of people in case something has happened to them as well before something happens to you (particularly if the first choices are grandparents). This avoids the children having to go into temporary foster care before things are sorted out.