tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8294002198733660724.post3131451893355093940..comments2024-01-19T14:36:19.222-05:00Comments on Rockin' On: the Blog: Too green for the LFP green bloggerRockinonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16466451909515114927noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8294002198733660724.post-19729112951527330302009-09-17T21:45:44.772-04:002009-09-17T21:45:44.772-04:00LOL - Great topic!! and one, as the chief tub-scru...LOL - Great topic!! and one, as the chief tub-scrubber in our house, that I've pondered on occasion. <br /><br />A couple of things to note: (1) Perhaps the LFP's senior on-line editor had a traumatic potty-training ordeal? If he's never even thought about peeing in the shower, could that mean he's incredibly sphincter-retentive? (2) An acquaintance who has traveled to Central America shared with me that while there she was instructed to not flush ANY toilet paper that was used. I'm not exactly clear why the system could handle solid bodily waste but not the melt-in-your-hands t.p., but ALL t.p. was to be put in the trash. And this was in a relatively modern hotel...hard to say what the facilities were like in the more 'quaint' areas. <br />And tossing brown t.p. into the trash gives me more heebie-jeebies than thinking about peeing in the shower LOL Which bring me to (3): I live in a house that uses an 'engineered' septic field. This means that our water table is too high to support a more typical field that is buried in the ground. Instead, we have a field that is built up off grade, surrounded by gravel and other well-draining substances, but ultimately, all our water and waste still ends up in the surrounding swamp. <br /><br />Everything that goes in (or more properly, down) a drain, goes in the same spot. So, if one can get past the thought of it, it makes no difference which drain we choose to pee in, but it sure makes you start thinking about what's going down the drain, given that your well is only a couple of hundred feet downstream from your neighbor's field!<br /><br />That's only a little different, in theory, than living in a more urban area, where the waste and runoff sewers are separated, so the true waste gets treated before being discharged back into the water table, except of course when it rains buckets and then everyone's flushables end up in the rivers anyway. Still, as far as the input locale goes, none of that makes no never mind because it all ends up in the same place - and there's nothing like the sound of running water to trigger nature's call! Sometimes a person's just gotta do what a person's gotta do - sterile urine or not, maybe that's why God invented spray Lysol???<br /><br />Keep Rockin'!<br />:-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com