Update

 

 

Several people have asked about the compost tumbler.  It’s called a Hotfrog.  It’s available on Amazon:

 

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01IFN972U/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

The description says it can turn around a batch in as little as two weeks.  The best I’ve done in our hot humid climate is a month.  Initially, it seems like it fills up pretty fast, but as it composts, the volume reduces, and you can just keep adding bits to one side for a month while the other side finishes.  If the yard clippings seem too big, we pile them on the ground, run the little electric lawnmower over them, and empty the catcher into the composter.  For the bigger branches and palm fronds, we’ve got a small electric chipper.

 

 

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B077YDZ725/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

 

 

The dogs and the frog.  (We know it’s a toad; sometimes we just want to say frog.)  They get along fine.  Where the little guy lives in the fountain pond is the same place the dogs go to drink out of the “mountain stream”.  He and the dogs don’t bother each other at all.

 

 

 

No running or barking required!