Big Blue

A couple of years ago, two blue barrels washed up on Grandma and Pop-Pop's beach after a storm. These barrels are often used as floats for docks, so Pop-Pop figured someone would come along and claim them, but nobody ever did. Luckily, we came up with a way to repurpose one of those barrels.

Meet Big Blue.

With some wood reclaimed from a broken picnic table the former owners of our house had left to rot, that blue barrel became our composter. Hubby cut a lid out of the bottom of the barrel and used some piano hinge and latches to make it open and close. It spins on a metal rod drilled through the center, so we can easily turn it. And he made it just the right height to get the wheelbarrow underneath when we are ready to transfer compost to the garden.

Big Blue is already getting filled with our kitchen scraps and some leaves we raked up. We're looking forward to adding some compost to the vegetable garden later this season.

When we cut the opening for the lid, we discovered what the barrel had originally been filled with. It was soy sauce, of all things. Now every time I dump the compost crock I get cravings for Chinese food.

Mommy