On one end of the spectrum there is tree-hugger 'green', and then there environmental slobs.I'm closer to the green side of the conscious side, but not overly weird-ish...until now.
I am building us a backyard composter to biodegrade the dog poo.
I wish I could say I was purely motivated by my earth-friendly motives, but selfishly, it is not so....not entirely anyway.
We have three dogs. Pepai, alone, eats 8 cups of dog food a day. The other two...we go through about 40 lbs of dog food a week...so, yeah, they eat a lot. And what goes in is bound to come out.
And it is Summer. I love Summer, don't get me wrong, but at least in Winter when we'd scoop the dog poo it was frozen and we'd put it in a garbage bag and it stayed frozen (read 'not stinky') until the garbage truck picked it up on Friday mornings.
And we have these compost green bins that get picked up once a week as well, so I've been putting our doggy droppings in and handling them that way. But God, the smell!
And last night I wheeled the reeking green cart to the curb and a million maggots crawled out and I almost took a fucking coronary right there in the driveway.
Give me tarantulas, fire ants, slugs, worms...I'm good. Show me a maggot and I'm half mental.
Needless to say, when those creepy little pagan beasts touched my hand in the dark last night and I threw up a little in my mouth, I made up my mind to find a solution to my dog shit vs maggot problem. Pronto.
After a little online research I found the perfect solution to my poop problem. And it will only cost me about $3 and a little blood sweat and tears.
Here is the article and step-by-step instructions to build the Poopy Composter.
So tomorrow, after I work, then go to the horse races, then pick up Big Son from his kayaking trip with my brother....I will come home and dig a 3 foot deep hole in the far corner of my backyard and start flinging shit like there's no tomorrow.
And the best part? No smell. And the bestest part? No smell means no flies and no disgusting squirmy fly larva maggot babies....and for that I'll gladly stay out until midnight digging this hole.
Wish me happy poop scooping.
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