Time to plaster the rest of the house! First you need lots of chopped straw. Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble! (Or rather, dust and dust!) Nobody with asthma should come near a straw chopper. We are chopping it in a leaf mulcher that worked quite well. The three choppers are, from left, Don, a friend from work, Andrzej, my eldest son, and Jon Ruez, my good friend and consultant.