Mountain Highs and Valley Lows

 For over a year, I have been trying composting in trash cans. While I did end up with some dark dirt, II am not happy with the results I got. The dirt I got was a wet soggy mess. I poured the dirt in the trash can in the front yard out into the raised garden bed I have in the front yard to let it dry out. I hope after it dries out I while have usable compost. I will let it dry for the rest of the week and check on it this weekend. Since the trash can compost has not worked, I will go back to having a post compost pile behind the shed in the backyard. Over the years, I have had better results from the compost pile in the backyard and it is less work to maintain.  I hope to get a garden started in my front yard next year. I got sick with Covid while I was working on getting it set up this year. I will continue to work on things for the rest of this year to get going with things in the garden next year.  My plan is to eventually have my whole yard outside as a garden as a p...

Over the past year, I have been dealing with issues with my septic system. It was an ordeal just to get the critical issues with the septic to keep things from backing up into the house. After several calls to septic companies and a contractor, I located the septic tank and had the critical part of the problems taking care of. Then I worked on saving up the money, I needed in order to have drain field possibly repaired. I kept my eye on the check values of the waist line. When things started to really start backup, I made to decide to go ahead and call the Septic Company, I wanted to work on the whole problem at first but they were 3 to 4 weeks out when I was in emergency mode with the septic system.  They were only a week or two out now. Most of my wait was because of weather. They came and started to dig starting from the exit port of the septic tank and made their way towards the drain field.  Fortunately, only a few feet out they found the issue that was causing the issues...