The Old Folks Home

[perchie.girl]

That different than the composting ones?

Lots of kinds now...interesting.

they have been around for quite some time.... simple affair.... Bucket with a liner seat of preference same bucket sitting next filled with sawdust .... After you finis you scoop some fresh sawdust and sprinkle on top.

If you build it right you can put in a urine diverter which sends it to another container that you add water to. That can be put directly in the garden.

The solid waste can either be disposed in the regular trash OR sent to a compost bin for composting and eventual use in the garden.

http://humanurehandbook.com/humanure_toilet.html

 

[drumstick diva]

I think I will stick with indoor potties. BTW Alaskan, did you know your beach is covered with ice???

 

[getaclue]

And another...

 

[chickisoup]

Hey AL!!!! How about sendin' some of that ice this way??? It's 7 a.m. and 70o! This is just insane. How do you folks in the south survive this? My poor Aussie hen was suffering so bad at bedtime last night I had to run a fan in the coop for the first time ever. The watches and warnings are up but the storms won't hit us until round noon. In the meantime the air is so heavy it's like trying to breathe with your head in a water bucket. Don't think there will be much work being done today.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

How's the daughter in ICU?

Dsqard and I are back from adventures in california.

Just a couple photos.

We didn't run into any bears, but we did run into two hikers coming back off the trail who had a bear encounter, and the bear stole their bear canister (required bear proof food storage container).

It was beautiful, and hot most of the time. I have a pretty significant sunburn (we really don't see sun like that up here) despite copious amounts of SPF 50 applied multiple times per day.

The campsite we stayed at was nice, it had a double decker composting toilet facility (I know y'all were just discussing composting toilets) so my fear of pooping in the woods was unnecessary. The bad news is when you get up at 3 am and have to urgently pee and have little sense of direction the facilities are impossible to find, even with 2 flashlights. I had to wake Dsqard to take me potty.

We hiked about 50 miles and so many feet up and back down. I screwed up my knee pretty bad on the second to last day, probably need to get it checked out asap.

 

[microchick]

Same here Chickisoup only no storms forecast until Wednesday. We turned on the AC here yesterday for the first time. Temps here in the 90s but at least high humidity hasn't hit yet so it feels more like Arizona here right now.

Missouri knows how to throw a summer.

Bucket toilets. Use those when camping. Dig a hole smaller than the bottom of a bucket, cut the bottom out of a bucket, set it over the hole, place a recycled toilet seat on top of the bucket, Instant toilet. Dig a new hole every day and fill in the old one. Better than squatting any day of the week.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Oh, and lastly, we didn't get a lot of signal, unless we climbed to the top of the rim (which we did frequently) or went into "town" 30 minutes down the road (which we did once).
The one time we went into town I received this text from BF:
"Fun Fact: the top of the cat litter box works excellent as a shield"

(We have the covered cat litter boxes in the coop as extra nesting boxes)

Apparently the turkey was not well behaved for him, either.

 

[Peep_Show]

Dsqard and I are back from adventures in california.

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I understand the water in Yosemite is the fullest it has been in decades. All sorts of dormant falls in action due to the plentiful snow melt. Wonderful!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Yes, there were waterfalls everywhere you looked. The Mist Trail should have been temporarily renamed the Super Soaker Trail. The water was so powerful, and scary. On the trails near the base of them was so much wind, just from the rushing water. They sounded like thunder, too. A few days before we did the Mist Trail someone fell off and into the water and (presumably) died. The trail was pretty scary, there were these really narrow stone steps that were completely soaked and had a mini river running down them. Dsqard and I made the (stupid) decision to take that trail up to our campsite. I was soaked for about 12 hours after that, and the stairs were scary. We were hauling our packs, too, so it was very dangerous and scary. We took a different (longer) way back.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Oh, also we saw "the fissures" which were really, really neat at Taft Point. In some spots it's only a few inches wide, yet you can stand over them and see 3K feet down to the valley floor. They widen as they reach the edge of the rim.

While we were there there were a group of what I'll refer to as "morons" - who set up a tight rope across one of the fissures and was practicing walking it. I needed to take an Imodium just to watch.

That rock in the middle (right side of the valley, far out, flat face) is El Capitan.