The Old Folks Home

[Wickedchicken6]

I'd like to go on record of stating that I was not around in 1853.

I have now been asked (not on this forum) by two separate people that don't know each other whether the stone wall around Benn Wiggin's grave was original with the internment, and whether the tree was there when he was buried.

PEOPLE.

How the heck would I know?

But...so were they?



You do sound very knowledgeable about restoring etc. As Kusanar mentioned, they probably thought you would be able to date these items from your knowledge base.
I'd take it as a lovely compliment.

I was telling DH about all that you're doing with the restoration etc in addition to your regular job etc. He thought that was impressive. Then I mentioned you also make those beautiful quilts and I just about blew his mind...lol.

There is an Icelandic graveyard about 3 miles from our place that DH showed me when we were dating. We tried to find it about a decade ago and couldn't. Our neighbor knows where it is so we're going to go and find it...probably later in the fall when the grass dies.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Flies are not too bad here yet. In a couple of weeks tomatoes will be harvested and then processed a couple of miles from be to the north west. The waste, also called silage from processing will be dumped onto a field about 3 miles to the north east of me. The fields, processing and silage will produce lots of flies and a very bad smell...both of which will be blamed on my chickens.... bad neighbors!

Looks like I have an internal pip on egg #2 and not a moment too soon.

Burd, as she has been christened, has found her voice and in spite of her furry cuddle monkey friend along with a mirror, she wants to sit under my hand.

C'mon egg #2, momma needs another chick.

Ronott1, I can just imagine how bad that must smell. There is a feed lot for dairy calf steers not too far from us. You never know they are there....unless the wind blows from the north west that is.

I keep telling myself it could always be worse....like hog confinement worse.

We've done silage from hay but thankfully once it's covered by the plastic...we don't smell it. I have smelled the stuff in the winter when feeding though. Our employer liked it but we're not so much for it. It costs money to have people come in to do it, it's problematic with it being wet and we have freezing temps. Rats also like it. We prefer dry hay. Which we are half done.

I never considered what is done with the left over once the crop's been harvested, like tomatoes. I found it neat that bad fries/potatoes from McCains are fed to cattle...lol.

Hog confinement...nothing like the pigs kept on a farm...lol. Took me about a year to get that smell out of my hair. If the barn has pits for the excrement...it's just nasty and being in the heat of the south...that'd be awful! I'm assuming there's likely the holding area (lagoon) by the barn so the wind carries the smell?

The prepared feed they feed is just ...the pigs in our barn smelled just like the feed and so did the meat...it tasted like it. We were given a side of pork one year...had to feed it to the dog. My uncle's pigs taste so much better...the difference between store eggs and fresh eggs.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

So here is my little miracle chick officially christened Burd with her snuggle monkey.

Egg #2 now has officially pipped internally. I can see a little beak clearly in the air cell so hopefully she (think pullet, will pullet) will have a little friend tomorrow sometime.

Your chick looks good! That's a huge chick!

 

[perchie.girl]

she is dumb as a stump!

 

[Alaskan]

Maybe our septic tanks are different?? Our tanks have a solids side, a partition in the middle and the water flows over to the gray water pump out side. As the water fills, it hits the pilswitch , it's like a float and this signals the septic pump in the basement to pump the water out. Both houses have plastic pipe that runs quite a ways from the house where it pumps out the gray water. It's the solids side that's sucked out. I "think" the tank at this house is cement....the one at our house is fiberglass and it looked like a giant soup bowl when it was in half.

Oh...our well isn't any where near either pump out. We have one well that's now piped direct to our house and the drinker behind our house. This house now branches off the direct line to feed this house and then branches to all the drinkers in the different directions. It's a new well created about 10 years ago.

Yeah...sounds different.

Here gray water is the water that never touches the toilet water...so if you use the right soap, can be put directly on the lawn and gardens, etc.

My septic tank looks just like a really big fuel oil tank...just underground. It does have 2 halves, (I think I remember ) to help the solids slow down and settle and NOT enter the tank outlet pipe. The outlet pipe goes to a snazzy leach field. My leach field is a large series of giant perforated pipes filled with drain rock (culvert sized piped). All underground.

I pump out my tanks every 2 to 3 years because if you wait too long to pump, the solids will ooze into the leach field, and destroy the leach field.

 

[pennyJo1960]

that is how most septic does since the late 50's are except in old areas deep in the boonies allot of choose to live in

 

[Alaskan]

I suspect sewer systems like yours are granfathered in. A remodel requiring code inspection and new construction likely requires a septic tank and leach line system.

Here is sort of like that. Nothing is inspected...unless you want a bank loan.

New septic tanks and leach fields are supposed to be built to code. ...but as far as I can tell, there is no inforcement.

The tax man comes by and records what has been built, but only from the outside... and that is just for evaluation, to help raise your taxes.

But. ..if you don't need a mortgage on your house, you can build anything you want. Lots of creative housing here.

I don't think anyone has an "over the hill" sewer system. but we do have lots of crib septics (big hole in ground, line with logs, fill with rocks, cover with a roof of logs then dirt), and car septic (VW vans preferred, put the car in the hole, cover with dirt). Both kinds can actually have a pump out pipe installed.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Yeah...sounds different.

Here gray water is the water that never touches the toilet water...so if you use the right soap, can be put directly on the lawn and gardens, etc.

My septic tank looks just like a really big fuel oil tank...just underground. It does have 2 halves, (I think I remember ) to help the solids slow down and settle and NOT enter the tank outlet pipe. The outlet pipe goes to a snazzy leach field. My leach field is a large series of giant perforated pipes filled with drain rock (culvert sized piped). All underground.

I pump out my tanks every 2 to 3 years because if you wait too long to pump, the solids will ooze into the leach field, and destroy the leach field.

Whoops! ...NOT gray water, my bad. Mine is the exact same as yours until the point of the series of giant perforated pipes filled with drain rock. Ours has a pipe that comes up out of the ground and it pumps it out there.

Your description is much better than mine.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Here is sort of like that. Nothing is inspected...unless you want a bank loan.

New septic tanks and leach fields are supposed to be built to code. ...but as far as I can tell, there is no inforcement.

The tax man comes by and records what has been built, but only from the outside... and that is just for evaluation, to help raise your taxes.

But. ..if you don't need a mortgage on your house, you can build anything you want. Lots of creative housing here.

I don't think anyone has an "over the hill" sewer system. but we do have lots of crib septics (big hole in ground, line with logs, fill with rocks, cover with a roof of logs then dirt), and car septic (VW vans preferred, put the car in the hole, cover with dirt). Both kinds can actually have a pump out pipe installed.

...wow!

 

[CapricornFarm]

I had to give up most of my farm animals when we moved back to FL to help my aging relatives. It stunk. All those goats and bunnies and chickens i had been raising for years, gone. I still miss them. But i am not getting 100 goats and 250 chickens again. It is a lot of work and not easy if you need a farm sitter. Plus it is expensive.i want guineas to kill ticks, some Speckled Sussex and some Polish. I am getting small breeds of rabbits, already have 2 Holland Lops. And those Nigerian Dwarf goats. Maybe 6 or so. I think i am better to spoil small numbers of animals than just collect all different sorts. I designed a coop and priced the building materials at $600. It will probably run about the same for a good goat shed. But if i get materials a bit at a time it should not be too bad and i can get pallets and such to cut back costs. I have been looking on Craigslist for cheap or free Windows to use. My husband is going to Canada to visit relatives and i am staying here with the cat, kittens, dogs and rabbits. We do not know anyone yet to care for them but i am content to stay here and chill while he runs off.