A friend of mine just bought the piece of property next door to the property her house sits on and she is creating a large garden on it, so I thought it would be nice to make up a gift basket for her.....
Wouldn't you like to be surprised with a basket like this? I know I would! She loved it!
Right before I headed to town to run errands and deliver the basket I cleaned out the wood stove and relit the fire. I was feeling pretty good about all the things I was getting done! I was in town about 2 hours, and when I got back I saw a note with a jar sitting on top of it on the sun room floor just inside the open door. I thought to myself..."isn't that nice, someone left me a jar of jam!" Smiling, I picked up the jar but was surprised to find that it was my jar that was coated inside with the innoculant from the pea planting episode the night before. Hmm, that's strange. I was disappointed it wasn't jam! The note said, "Please contact your local fire dept." WHAT!?!?
I glanced around frantically and everything seemed okay. I wondered if I had had a flue fire or something. I quickly called the fire department and they said that they had been out to my place with the fire truck. Someone had called them and said that my compost had lit on fire and it was burning the duck hutch roof, and INSTANTLY I knew why.... I had put the ashes from the woodstove in the compost bin. It had some dry material in it that ignited. I ran out there and sure enough....
This is not good. The roof is still there but it is only the fibers, the resin all burned away...
The rain is going to come right through. I don't have time to fix it now. Ducks don't mind being wet, so they will just have to live with it until I get home
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So what did we all learn from this? .....Don't put woodstove ashes in the compost bin, just spread it directly into the beds.
No way!! What a thing to come home to! Glad everything is 'mostly' ok.
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