Mr. Nguyen's workers did some light pruning and spread 2 cubic yards of compost on flower beds. It's Cedar Grove municipal compost and fingers crossed, it looks clean. Meaning, not laced with plastic shreds and glass chips, like that load I got in 2013. I'm picking out bits to this day.
City compost is sterile. The process must be hot enough to kill pathogens, seeds and insects and break down the disgusting things we throw in our yard waste bin. In Seattle, that's everything from greasy pizza boxes, fast food containers, bones and used paper towels.
Not a single bird track on top, because there's nothing in there to eat. Leaf mulch is better, homemade compost better yet, full of worms and healthy microcosms.
But I'm just relieved to have something organic covering the beds this winter. November was so warm and wet the forsythia thought it was March. So did the weeds. Another garden season ends with lessons learned in a changing climate.
In other good news/bad news. What a pretty sunset on Saturday. The external framework for the school addition is up, and now we can see the outline of what will be the finished building.
I thought that high roof line would extend all the way over to the left, blocking our evening light. A nice surprise when it stopped there.
The picture makes more sense, looking at the finished building from the opposite side.
That white box on top is the open framework in my photo. The main building is basically below the hill, so we might not see much from our house. Yea.
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