wood compost bins

I bent a large cube of wood ashes in my compost … bad idea, I know …?
Any suggestion to do to fix it. Everything was beautiful composting, but now it just died.
No, not a bad idea! Wood ash is almost equal to the lime. Everybody put lime in the compost pile. Really not so bad idea. I live in New England, I have a wood stove all winter as I can remove the ashes from the woodstove throw it across the yard. I have the best hydrangeas and lilacs in the neighborhood. Mt Viburnum are beautiful, and my grass is green.
Pete Woodchipper HJ260