I am sick today. Headache, allergies, nausea, cramps, general exhaustion after moving for 12 hours straight on Sunday and about 8 hours on Friday after working.
Therefore, I was able to be home when the UPS fellow came and delivered two large packages to the apartment. One was a rather heavy and awkward hammock which I assume is for my roommate's much-vaunted Hammock Tree Project. If it is not, I don't know where it will go.
Aside: our yard, though now vibrant with peas and promising tomatoes, is rather small. Our backyard consists of a stump, asphalt, a grill, some bike parts (
raxvulpine is a bike mechanic of sorts), and a bunch of yard debris from the yard clearing a month ago (we have put four large trashcans of branches out for each of the yard waste days this month, and it still looks like the Yew Bush that Ate This Side of the Charles back there).
One was a smallish, unobtrusive, lidded steel bucket for the kitchen waste we are now depositing in our composting bin, which is now sitting in our front yard courtesy of the general eco-hippie-friendliness of both our town's local government and my childhood indoctrination into the same, consisting primarily of Ranger Rick and my highschool Ecology class.
Aside: my housemates think the bin is unsightly. I agree, but it was better than having it in the back. My rationale is that half-composted compost strewn over the asphalt after squrrel tippage is much less sightly than a squat black thing that looks a bit like an oversized, evil R2D2 sitting solidly screwed into the dirt in the front. My housemates have futher suggested various compost bin accoutrements, such as: a large yellow "radioactive" symbol painted on top, a pair of cat ears, a Totoro face, or a dalek transformation. These have all been nixed as impratical, possibly illegal (in the case of the radioactive), creepy (the Hammock Tree roommate has a Totoro phobia (!)), or "why the heck do we want to call even more attention to this ugly thing?" Next year, I plan to plant a view-blocking trellis of something quick and cute and not invasive.
Anyway, the steel bucket. It comes with filters to block the smell from the waste, in case you can't take it out to the composter every day. It comes with instructions on how to install these in the lid of the bucket. It doesn't need any kind of origami, you just kind of shove it up into the lid. They apparently couldn't find a good verb for the purpose, though, so step two has:
- A picture of the lid.
- A picture of the filter.
- An arrow pointing from the filter to the lid.
With the word "PUT" over it in tiny block capitals.
This made my day.
Now, for a nap.
Therefore, I was able to be home when the UPS fellow came and delivered two large packages to the apartment. One was a rather heavy and awkward hammock which I assume is for my roommate's much-vaunted Hammock Tree Project. If it is not, I don't know where it will go.
Aside: our yard, though now vibrant with peas and promising tomatoes, is rather small. Our backyard consists of a stump, asphalt, a grill, some bike parts (
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One was a smallish, unobtrusive, lidded steel bucket for the kitchen waste we are now depositing in our composting bin, which is now sitting in our front yard courtesy of the general eco-hippie-friendliness of both our town's local government and my childhood indoctrination into the same, consisting primarily of Ranger Rick and my highschool Ecology class.
Aside: my housemates think the bin is unsightly. I agree, but it was better than having it in the back. My rationale is that half-composted compost strewn over the asphalt after squrrel tippage is much less sightly than a squat black thing that looks a bit like an oversized, evil R2D2 sitting solidly screwed into the dirt in the front. My housemates have futher suggested various compost bin accoutrements, such as: a large yellow "radioactive" symbol painted on top, a pair of cat ears, a Totoro face, or a dalek transformation. These have all been nixed as impratical, possibly illegal (in the case of the radioactive), creepy (the Hammock Tree roommate has a Totoro phobia (!)), or "why the heck do we want to call even more attention to this ugly thing?" Next year, I plan to plant a view-blocking trellis of something quick and cute and not invasive.
Anyway, the steel bucket. It comes with filters to block the smell from the waste, in case you can't take it out to the composter every day. It comes with instructions on how to install these in the lid of the bucket. It doesn't need any kind of origami, you just kind of shove it up into the lid. They apparently couldn't find a good verb for the purpose, though, so step two has:
- A picture of the lid.
- A picture of the filter.
- An arrow pointing from the filter to the lid.
With the word "PUT" over it in tiny block capitals.
This made my day.
Now, for a nap.