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After the workshop, we got a big bag of pine saw dust from a door factory and added it to the brown carbon material already in the box. This brought the level up to 1' shy of the top	We added three seperate tight fitting lids. The section at the far end is propped open in this picture. We added worms, water and food scraps to that first section in order to perpare it to receive our buckets.
Designing a toilet from scratch gave us new inspiration. We decided we didn't need a big round hole. Instead we chose a narrow oval shape, more comfortable for the children we expect will use this toilet.	An appropriate lid for an oval hole seemed like a fish shape. It is light and easy to lift. By rejecting a ready-made toilet seat we also elminated the need to seal it to make it flush with our blue lid.
Here's the final throne. As you can see, it is stunning and the cedar wood smells really good, too. There's a scoop in the closest compartment for moving a nice brown dust of sawdust, etc, into the 5 gallon bucket after each use. When the 5 gallon bucket is full, we'll turn it over (and leave it in place) in the big box pictured above. When 9 buckets have been dumped, the first one will be clean and ready to re-use. The first section will have compost (soil) where there used to be poop and carbon material. All thanks to the lovely red wiggler worms, who live happily-ever after.