Photos

Rayleigh and Kelsey relaxing on the couch one afternoon.

Rayleigh taking a sleep in her boat cradle.

Rayleigh passed out from Milk Coma!

An artsy photo of the little girl at about 10 days old.

Rayleigh and Kevin on the first day of school at RPI, both love the Sleepywrap.

Rayleigh all cuddled up for an afternoon nap.

Kevin’s favorite activity- looking at his baby girl.

Kelsey and Rayleigh at Samantha’s Cafe. Kelsey is sporting Rayleigh in the Sleepy Wrap.

The left box is full of the compost that we pulled from the old composter. The right box is ready to be filled. The lids open independently of one another, so you can access only the bin you need to. The idea is that one bin is for active compost (the one we will continue … Continued

The hinges mounted to the back of the composter ready for lids to be attached.

The box with all sides, lids, and slats finished and attached.

Two of the sides done. We needed to get the back and right sides done before we could move it into the corner of the fence, and we needed to move it before it was complete because it was getting very heavy.

This is the design of the slats in the front. All of the slats except the top one are 2x6es shimmed at the bottom corners with 2.5″ of 5/8″ board. This method allows the slats to retain a gap to allow air transfer while being able to be removed.

The box completely framed out and ready for the addition of walls. The inside wall is finished in this photo.

Kevin and his dad working together to drill holes and drive screws to hold the box together.

The side frames added, and the top part of the middle frame added.

In order to prevent the fronts of the box from bowing outward due to pressure, we made a full bottom frame and a partial top frame. The fronts are removable slats, so they don’t do any work at holding the front together.

This is the stack of lumber that we used to build the new composter. All of these boards are 12′ length, except the shim boards, which were 8′.

This is all of the compost from our old composter. We put the new composter in the same area as the old one, so we needed to get the old one and the compost pile out of the way before we could move the new one in.

The box with the back frame and the bottom middle support added.

This is the composter that we were using, which didn’t hold up. To be fair, we were harder on it than it was probably designed for. The pressure of the contents and the mixing process caused the joints on the corner to separate.

The happy family!

Kelsey giving Rayleigh her first sponge bath at home. She didn’t like it very much.

Sleeping in her car seat.