Janelle took her gloves off for a moment and began to take notes on all of the information that the professor was providing. Leaving her notes where she could see them easily, Janelle donned her gloves once again. First she had to choose between straw and twigs. Not having a particular preference for one over the other, Janelle did a silent eenie meenie miney moe. Sticks it was then. Walking over to the bin containing sticks, she picked up an armful. Then she returned to her crate and carefully placed the sticks on top of the soil. Janelle didn't know whether they needed to be arranged in a particular way, but she laid the sticks neatly in place.

Peeking over at her notes, Janelle checked for the next step in the process. Now she had to decide what she wanted to include in her compost. They had some rules to follow, but it seemed that they could pretty much freestyle on their choices. Sadly, one of them had to be manure. Janelle wasn't opposed to manure, per se. She just didn't fancy the awful smell. Hopefully, the other items would mask the smell somewhat and not make a sickening combination of odors. Looking at the choices, Janelle decided that she would go for broke. It would be five items for her compost.

First would be the manure or maybe she should get that last. That way Janelle could spare herself a few minutes of stink. Deciding to choose as she went along, Janelle went and grabbed five buckets. She would get two moist items, two dry items and.........the dreaded manure. Taking the first two buckets, the third year went over to the moist materials. After looking them over for a minute, she filled one bucket with apple cores and one bucket with orange peels. Setting those two buckets back in her work area, she returned with two more buckets. Next up were the dry ingredients. She filled the buckets with tea bags and coffee grounds, hoping that at least some of her four ingredients would hide the smell of the fifth. After depositing the last two buckets with the first two, it was time for the you know what. Since chicken manure was extra potent, Janelle decided to go with that. She wouldn't need as much, right? Once the manure was obtained, Janelle stood by her materials and waited for more instructions.