LK>  being disabled making the bins will be my challenge - as I read in that
I *know* that it won't stop you, in fact, you're probably going
to become a meta-composter, like me. Rather than adopt the usual
approach that I outlined (hammering together four-foot scraps of
wood), you're going to be a roving salvager!
Almost any type of container will do for composting - right now
for my indoor vermicompsters I'm using lengths of six-inch
diameter serwer pipe (cast-off from any building site) and five-
gallon condiment pails (ditto any restaurant).
Providing that there is drainage for excess fluid, and
circulation for air, mother nature will do the rest. As usual,
it's really a matter of just how we fit in with nature.
        What types of containers are readily available to you? 
LK>  chickens ... and I can also use feather for one of the layers .. Did you
LK>  know about Chicken feathers?
I know that chicken feathers will ultimately break down, because
I hauled 6-foot trailers of chicken-droppings to my strawberry
patch in Gawler South Australia. If I had to bet on it, though,
I'd say that chicken feathers were one of the slower biological
items to decompose.
Christopher.Greaves@CapCanada.Com    www.interlog.com/~cgreaves
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FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: F1IE1719 Date: 01/14/98
From: TIMOTHY DUEHRING                                      Time: 10:28am
\/To: CHRISTOPHER GREAVES                                 (Read 2 times)
Subj: R: Compost

Christopher,
    
CG>If I had to bet on it, though,
CG>I'd say that chicken feathers were one of the slower biological
CG>items to decompose.

    Peanut shells aren't very fast either.
    
    
Timothy Duehring
tduehrin@execpc.com
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FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: F1I00002 Date: 01/12/98
From: JUDITH HEATWOLE                                       Time: 05:13pm
\/To: CHRISTOPHER GREAVES                                 (Read 2 times)
Subj: glass-fragment cement?

Quoting Christopher Greaves (Sat 10 Jan 1998 15:28) to All:
CG> one finds one's self  with a jar full of green, white, blue
CG> and red glass fragments.  
A man after my own heart! I tend to stick to rocks, which
look terrific wet, but by the time I get them home--dry,
they're not so purty.
CG> One suggests to one's self that it might be a good idea to 
CG> establish a light-wood framed piece of plain glass the size
CG> of  the north-west facing window, the window that gets the
CG> sun's full  glare in summer-time, assuming that summer ever
CG> returns, and to  cement these beads of glass to the plain
CG> sheet of glass, making a  removable screen that can be
CG> propped up in the afternoon to make  a sun-filter for
CG> delicate plants and the back of my neck. 
A word of caution here. These beadlets can act like a
magnifier for the sun's rays, and can cause fire.
There was a case recently where sunrays beaming through a
dreamcatcher which was hanging in a window, caused something
to catch fire (don't remember whether it was the curtains,
newspapers, upholstery, etc.).
CG> One then turns to this conference to ask one's confidantes
CG> what  sort of cement one should use to lightly attach chunks
CG> of glass  and plastic (there are a few pieces of rear-light
Sorry, don't know. I used Elmer's to glue rocks and
seashells to a fiberboard backdrop....still holding after
18 years and numerous washings.
Judy--
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