Living rural questions.

[Beer can]

(how Dutch people home's were when they lived in one room before electricity).

Just shut up and move here. My family was Dutch also, moved here in the 1600's.

 

[ChemicalchiCkns]

It works. We made a trip through 24 countries in europe in 24 days last year, and had to look up for every country what the rules were. And Romania was not one of them that gave trouble (none of them did actually).

I was referring to changing your carrier to the local (RO) one from the current (NL) one. That might be trouble.

Also, check with the Romanian version of the EPA to see if the water coming off that mountain is really cleaner than your next-door river.

 

[ChemicalchiCkns]

Just shut up and move here. My family was Dutch also, moved here in the 1600's.

Would have to deal with naturalization, though.

 

[Loopeend]

Just shut up and move here. My family was Dutch also, moved here in the 1600's.

I'm trying to get awaaaay from Dutch people; not meeting more of them

(Joke/sarcasm offcourse)

If you tell me where you live and how it is I would consider that. I haven't visited where you live, but an bunch of other countries I did, and it is now; 1. Romania. 2. South Africa. 3. Portugal. You are absolutely welcome to change this top three, it's a reason I like this international forum so much because I get a glimps on how it is to live at other places on the world; but I can't promise it will work unless I actually visit it. But go ahead an try. You are more then welcome family-member

 

[Loopeend]

I was referring to changing your carrier to the local (RO) one from the current (NL) one. That might be trouble.

Also, check with the Romanian version of the EPA to see if the water coming off that mountain is really cleaner than your next-door river.

I thought of maybe just testing it myself? My Romanian is not reaaaaally that perfect yet. I see people there filling water bottles out of said river; and I have learned that swimming in the river over here means rash/diarhea/puking severly for days. I don't know if I can't find the information (and understand it) on how healthy that river actually is. It is clearly better then the one over here. But I know where to get water testing-tools and what water is healthy in a language I can read. =/

 

[EggWalrus]

Thanks. I'm making notes. We had the wood-stove and open cooking-fireplaces with beds in closets next to them in the planning to build (how Dutch people home's were when they lived in one room before electricity). Just for fun because my partner's job is renovating/building old stuff like that. But now I read what you say it might actually be next to pretty/interesting hándy when you need a sleepingplace when the fireplace is the only heat. Foot-stoves! I have a ton of them! And axes! I thought of allways have big amounts of wood.. but forgot about the chopping axes :') And now I think of it; a LOT of fire extinguishers and fire-blankets. And batteries for a big light, or a big light that get's energy from cycling or pinching it for on my bike! For when you need help when it's dark but the car doesn't work or anything. Kind of hard to cycle to something with 0 light.. Reflector jackets. The best warmth-isolating pots (like where you store coffee in when you go to work) in case we are not the worst off during a power-shortage but the elderly neighbours could use some help getting to something warm to drink/eat.
Sorry I'm writing this all out loud but then I can later make a list of it.

Do you have tips, or anyone else, where to store frozen food when the power is out? We are building from scratch so we could make some old cellar? Would be a big waist when all the meat spoils.

Dig a root cellar and build a smoke house for meat. Also learn alternative forms of meat preservation like fermenting, pickling, salt and sugar curing. I have an above ground smoke house but my root cellar had a chimney/fire place that can turn the whole cellar into a smoke house. Plus an under ground smoke house/storage is easier to protect from wild animals when under ground with 1 entry to close off.

 

[ChemicalchiCkns]

I thought of maybe just testing it myself? My Romanian is not reaaaaally that perfect yet. I see people there filling water bottles out of said river; and I have learned that swimming in the river over here means rash/diarhea/puking severly for days. I don't know if I can't find the information (and understand it) on how healthy that river actually is. It is clearly better then the one over here. But I know where to get water testing-tools and what water is healthy in a language I can read. =/

Are you sure they aren't just flushing their toilets with that water? And, unless the ground is seriously polluted, "surface water" is always more hazardous than ground water. And, if you can get GIS data for the place you are at, see how big the watershed of your property is. You might have a cyanide plant somewhere upstream.

 

[Loopeend]

Dig a root cellar and build a smoke house for meat. Also learn alternative forms of meat preservation like fermenting, pickling, salt and sugar curing. I have an above ground smoke house but my root cellar had a chimney/fire place that can turn the whole cellar into a smoke house. Plus an under ground smoke house/storage is easier to protect from wild animals when under ground with 1 entry to close off.

Do you have somewhere on internet how you made that? It sounds really interesting. We are busy with pickling and salting, and a smoke-house; but turning a cellar into a smoke-house sounds really interesting.

 

[Loopeend]

Are you sure they aren't just flushing their toilets with that water? And, unless the ground is seriously polluted, "surface water" is always more hazardous than ground water. And, if you can get GIS data for the place you are at, see how big the watershed of your property is. You might have a cyanide plant somewhere upstream.

Well, I just have to count the amount of eyes and extra limbs of my ducks by then I guess?

Kidding; you are right. Learning more Romanian to find out the right information ánd finding out how wells are an option it is. Multiple people on her say a well is the way to go. where I live a well is allmost a crime. And if you are allowed and have build it you are 6 average year-incomes further., and also 6 years to get a permit... You can get fines when you have one when you bought a house that had one since the ages of time and you didn't even build it =/
But I trust you guys. A well it is then.

And they actually drink it directly so I am sure they do not collect it to flush their toilets. But the though of it, when they didn't drink it before our eyes, and we as city-person just filled in that they used it to drink, and after drinking it ourselves, find out that they collect it to use to flush their toilets is hilarious :') that would probably involve some puking over tables and scraping some tongues and filling our mouths with soap :')

 

[ChemicalchiCkns]

Not to insult Romania, the Sovietisticalized "government" from the end of the World War up to 1989 was (like her fellow subject-states) terrible at environmental protection. The current countries now have to deal with the wreckage and hidden dangers. I tried looking @ the ro-RO version of their environmental protection department but could not find any data on anything (non-native speaker, though). There may be data submitted to the European agencies they are part of you can query. Spend some postage on a freedom of information request? The watershed you can do via GIS.

Where I am, doing surface water for public use is much more controlled than ground water. I do not know what Dutch ground water is like or why it is restricted.