The Old Folks Home

[bruceha2000]

You are lucky that your parents could get y'all showered at school. I'm not sure why people did not dig their wells deeper back then.
I hope your well never goes dry. It's not a good thing to go through as you already know.
I do worry now and I am even more careful about my water usage.

I have been doing some sewing and embroidery for a few Christmas presents. I am decorating tea towels and embroidering some and making some bowl koozies to match.

More than likely, same as the reason most things weren't done differently 'back then' (and now!) - money and the lack of it. The other possibility was there was enough water coming from a given well when it was dug.

Right now they are building a desalination plant in the city of Carlsbad... San Diego county.... but it will be a drop in the bucket... no pun intended. Its Very expensive to do. Not to build but takes a tremendous amount of energy;.

But that will be for drinking water...

Right now there is quite a bit of water reclamation going on. If you see a pipe that is purple then that is reclaimed water. used for City irrigation dont drink it....

Even now with many of the lawns dead or dug out and replaced with rocks there is still a need for irrigation. You can use a tote and go to the reclamation place and get 250 gallon tote filled. The water is reclaimed from sewage and is 99.9 percent pure. The city is considering taking it the next step and using it for a percentage of our tap water.

There are also machines that can extract water from the air.

My horse drinks 100 gallons every two and a half days. So far so good. this is why I dont chime in about growing things on my eighteen acres. The ONLY way I could even think about growing things would be with hydroponics. Using Recycled water from my o0wn system... Everyone will drink water from the well but all other water exept for toilet water will go into recycling system.

deb

Yep, desalination isn't even close to new, just costs a ton of electricity to do it. Then there is the question of "what do you do with a gagillion tons of sea salt and everything else that wasn't H20?"

And how many people have the equipment to haul 250 gallons (plus tote) totalling over 2,100 pounds????

 

[perchie.girl]

a single aircraft carrier has a system for desailination that can cover drinking water at the rate of 400,000 gallons per day.... But its driven by neuclear power....

salt can be sold off rather than mined....

deb

 

[chickadoodles]

I don't understand this power thing being a problem? Water makes power! Right? This is what the Army Corp of engineers is suppose to figure out right?

 

[1kluckychik]

Hey

 

[ronott1]

I don't understand this power thing being a problem? Water makes power! Right? This is what the Army Corp of engineers is suppose to figure out right?

The method used to remove the salt and other impurities out of the water uses a lot of energy. Water makes energy by movement--hydroelectric is water moving a turbine as the stream moves down our of a dam. It is like a grist mill that uses water to move the stone.

There is a way to use surf to move a turbine and then produce electricity. It does not make that much but a surf electricity generator next to a desalinization plant might work.

The problem is that someone has to pay for the electricity. So far, it has not been economical on a large scale to make drinking water from Ocean water.

 

[chickadoodles]

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Thanks Ron for explaining it. I just don't understand why if the country is already paying for the utilities and there is not enough to service the ones who need it why they think more money is needed. I think they just need better money management skills. But I am not a rocket scientist. lol The state of Calif. is on rolling power outages and already pays premium amounts of money for electricity and they say they can't service all the people, but all the people are paying their bill... Right?

 

[Beer can]

I got on here earlier but my computer was acting weird. I could not type to post. My first time making rabbit stew it is soooooo gooood! I thickened the broth and made biscuits to go in the gravy.

Rabbit pot pies are yummy also :-D

Don't get me wrong I have no qualms about putting birds in the freezer. I just need a bigger scalding pot. These guys are so old they'll likely be sausage.

I think I'm going to grind up my older birds next time. Pressure cooker works also, about 20-25minutes, falls off the bone.

Roll Tide

Hello there!

 

[Beer can]

Spent a few days up to camp in the Adirondack's, Lewey Lake between Speculator and Indian Lake. Didn't see any deer or bear but took some good hikes. Wish it was better weather usually 75degrees this weekend, wasn't this yr...

 

[Beer can]

Right outside our cabin

Somebody was festive and put a jack-o-lantern out there :-D

These were not easy walking on but no way around, really fun in the dark on the way back down, by myself...

Old firetower on one of the highest peaks. Was really hoping for good pics. Was clear all the way up then fogged over at the top. Took over a hr back down in the dark. And no I didn't go to the top of the tower, bout halfway, windy scary and wasn't going to get good pics anyway

Guy at work has been up it and got pics of the sunset on one side and moonrise on the other, that's what I was hoping for. I went up a few yrs ago, same thing, nothing :-(
What the view is in good weather from the top, not my pics;

Was a scary hike down worrying about bears only carrying a bow this day, only critter I ran into

 

[ronott1]

Right outside our cabin



Somebody was festive and put a jack-o-lantern out there :-D

These were not easy walking on but no way around, really fun in the dark on the way back down, by myself...

Old firetower on one of the highest peaks. Was really hoping for good pics. Was clear all the way up then fogged over at the top. Took over a hr back down in the dark. And no I didn't go to the top of the tower, bout halfway, windy scary and wasn't going to get good pics anyway




Guy at work has been up it and got pics of the sunset on one side and moonrise on the other, that's what I was hoping for. I went up a few yrs ago, same thing, nothing :-(
What the view is in good weather from the top, not my pics;



Was a scary hike down worrying about bears only carrying a bow this day, only critter I ran into

Nice Pictures...and a very scary frog!..or Toad....