Today our previous neighbor, Dave, and the former landlord's son, Anthony, came by. They woke us out of our afternoon nap (vacations are wonderful). The previous owner of this place left behind a few things including a large chain link cage and a composter. I have no use for either of them (the materials, not the men). I had offered the cage and the composter to them. They brought with them a riding lawn mower that Dave had picked up somewhere and repaired for us. Unfortunately their timing was rather poor. By the time we got the mower unloaded from the trailer and put the mower deck back on it the sun was setting and they had no time to work freeing the cage from the vegetation. It has been there long enough for the trees to grow inside it. They needed a chainsaw to get it free.

Anthony and Dave want those two items because they want to make methane to run a generator and get themselves off the grid. Anthony wants the composter because it will help him with some project he has in mind. Anthony is still in college and has been studying agriculture. He worked on a compost project with one of his professors and is all worked up over composting as being the wave of the future. The composter has been sitting long enough that its support framework rotted away and it fell over sometime after we moved in.