One of my tasks for the day, completed before the heat really set in, was to consolidate our various compost piles. We now have one active pile where we dump our scraps and manure and a mature pile that has percolated sufficiently that it can be used to grow things. It never ceases to amaze me how huge piles of decaying vegetable matter can, by merely turning it over, virtually disappear. Before I scooped them together with the front loader the individual piles were four feet tall. Now the one usable pile is barely two. Ah, the circle of life.

Why go to the trouble of moving the compost? It needed to be closer to the hose. We are getting so little rain that it was drying out, killing the process, so we have to water it.