tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18287683.post4041498227911803437..comments2024-01-16T22:31:44.531-05:00Comments on Haphazard Life: Cottage Moments #3Jazzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14644896022880634803noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18287683.post-15633501929074330392007-06-28T07:55:00.000-04:002007-06-28T07:55:00.000-04:00Ian - I have the spirituality of a bucket of rocks...Ian - I have the spirituality of a bucket of rocks, but I'm willing to work on it...<BR/><BR/>Em - Yeah, who knew... Welcome back to the blogging world.<BR/><BR/>BB, Josie and Tick - We have an old system, that's now illegal. Basically, it's a tank with holes in it and the "water" runs out. Unfortunately the water isn't purified in any way, though heavy "matter" sinks to the bottom, forms a sludge and it is vacuumed out.<BR/><BR/>Nowdays you have a drainage field where the water goes and is purified. Or you have a closed tank which fills up really quick and costs a fortune to empty every couple of months (especially as we go there year round) rather than once a year or so. The problem is where to put the drainage field.<BR/><BR/>As for getting to the back, we'd have to check into having a road opened... Mucho $$ Again.<BR/><BR/>DD - Well, mine is dead, can I smack yours?<BR/><BR/>Geewits - Bwah! Yeah, I guess it's not the first thing in your head when you're from the city...Jazzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14644896022880634803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18287683.post-26617840406087804742007-06-28T01:30:00.000-04:002007-06-28T01:30:00.000-04:00What a lovely cottage. Don't kick yourself for see...What a lovely cottage. Don't kick yourself for seeing such a lovely place and not asking, "But where does our poop go?"geewitshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11590044820333720010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18287683.post-35687088846103203202007-06-28T01:00:00.000-04:002007-06-28T01:00:00.000-04:00BB and Ticknet asked the question I was going to a...BB and Ticknet asked the question I was going to ask. Where does it go now? Or are you just really, really careful not to eat a lot of roughage?Johttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06979114933441527890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18287683.post-38572626307991101012007-06-28T00:49:00.000-04:002007-06-28T00:49:00.000-04:00That sucks. Sorry to hear that. And I have felt on...That sucks. Sorry to hear that. And I have felt on many an occasion that I wanted to smack the dude who built my house.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02737980462115396236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18287683.post-34072076445727169032007-06-27T19:37:00.000-04:002007-06-27T19:37:00.000-04:00I'm with BB. I was wondering where the current shi...I'm with BB. I was wondering where the current shit is going? I was also wondering why the new one can't go right there?ticknarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00801355244098858109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18287683.post-27379349419982688942007-06-27T17:24:00.000-04:002007-06-27T17:24:00.000-04:00Oh oh, I still say build an outhouse out back for ...Oh oh, I still say build an outhouse out back for the guests, or provide them with a toilet kit (shovel with a roll of toilet paper). Funny though I thought that in Québec you were no longer allowed to have a drainage field and all sceptic tanks had to be closed. I seem to remember my father in law saying to take it easy on the toilet paper at the cottage cuz if we filled the tank and they had to open it he'd have to change it for a closed system and that was about 20 years ago. Dumb question, where's your drainage system at the moment? And second question, is there a way to get to the back of your property to install it there?Big Brotherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08309464919532916689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18287683.post-23193310674276283922007-06-27T12:29:00.000-04:002007-06-27T12:29:00.000-04:00Wow..who knew so much thought could go into the el...Wow..who knew so much thought could go into the elimination of our eliminations?!? Best wishes for a reasonable resolution.Emhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14063254538593495040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18287683.post-43944074966256910292007-06-27T11:17:00.000-04:002007-06-27T11:17:00.000-04:00And this will pass much like the stuff for which y...And this will pass much like the stuff for which you need the septic tank in the first place. In a conversation with Sancho Panza, Don Quixote refused to accept Sancho's well-consider point that if the spiritual man was on the side of the angels, why must that spiritual man still shit?<BR/>Maybe you and Mr. J could seek more spirituality, cut down on the fibre, and look to hanging out with the angels. Then the tank wouldn't be needed?<BR/>IanIan Lidsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14106994463366766471noreply@blogger.com