Robolady, I would be honored to have you post it on your webpage. I'm always looking at your page for ideas! You have the best ideas!!!! So creative! Grannytoo, I use vinyl clips to attach things to the siding...although I have been known to add a screw now and then (with sealant around it) if I want soemthing to really stay. SHHHHHHHHHHH! Don't tell my wife. Hee hee. Cindee and Breakdishes, I am considering eventually moving the door to an entrance of one of my gardens...perhaps on a new rustic arbor I plan to make this summer. Want to find some cool rustic hinges. So, Cindee and Breakdishes, you could come "visit" my door when it's hung. LOL Kirk

I think that was my post but I can't find it now...My friend and I have done a garden themed sale for 2 years now and had tags we made up on the computer with a cute, funny, tongue in cheek, informative bit of info for each one. Well, until the last crazy day when we realized we had more than we thought and not quite enough tags made up and maddly started hand-writing them! We also sent out great mailers and made sure everyone signed our guest book. We are planning our next one now! Actually I post under another name on the "other" T2T site and we have commented back and forth in the past...who could I be??!!

silverkelt, Your analysis is accurate. The base is over two feet in diameter and the tops flop about the ten feet you mention. I have been moving sports along a board fence (beats barbed wire and is legal). However, I want to control the flop. I'm looking for an anchor.

I'm a lazy composter, but I make huge piles of compost and use every bit of it every year. I just pile stuff up on the ground. When I have more stuff, I just throw it onto the pile. I never turn it. I never wet it down. I just let it sit there and decompose. I throw stuff on the top of the pile all spring, summer and fall. In late winter or early spring, I rake off any stuff on the top of the pile that hasn't broken down yet, and shovel out the good stuff and add it to the garden beds. Then I rake the non-decomposed stuff back onto the now-bare ground and that's the beginning of the new pile. I have three compost piles and all are roughly 8' x 8' or 10' x 10'. Most of the time they are between 2' to 5' tall depending on how much is being added to them. Today, for example, I fed the compost pile closest to the veggie garden all the snap pea plants and broccoli plants I was removing from the garden, so it went from about 2.5' tall to about 5' tall, but it won't stay that tall long. My piles get hot and break down quickly. We don't add grass clippings to them very often, but that's because the grass clippings go directly onto the beds as mulch, where they decompose on their own over time. We do add lots of leaves to the piles in the fall, but we chop or shred them first so they'll break down more quickly. We also add 'stuff' from the chicken coop to the piles about twice a year when we clean it out. Compost can be easy or it can be complicated...it's up to you. I keep it easy. The main reason I don't turn it is because during snake season the snakes like to live in those piles and I don't like snakes. Dawn