YAY! I am so excited about your efforts, Lori! You got a tremendous amount started. I'm hugely excited about your compost and especially the urine additives.

I was so shocked at how quickly the nitrogenous compounds reacted with the rest of the materials in my own compost. It's like a super charger. I am told the fresher it is, the more nitrogenous compounds are in it, along with phosphorus and potassium. My compost had only been slowly tooling along before i started this a couple months ago. Wish i'd done it sooner. There should be no smell if you keep adding leaves, grasses, paper, yard wastes and kitchen food. Urine only smells if it has no bacteria to work with. It starts volatizing and becoming concentrated and leaving salts behind. That's when it becomes yucky. Composting eliminates that issue and turns a waste product into a resource.

Did you use the cement bricks? I like to cover the top of mine with a piece of clear glass to make it as hot as possible inside, but that isn't necessary. smile