My husband was out for a walk this morning and brought home a copy of the Los Angeles Times. This has become a strategy to replace the no longer printed Saturday edition of the local Tribune, and the fact that our delivered New York Times for Saturday arrives on Sunday. I MUST have a morning paper to go with my microwaved breakfast from the freezer and battle axe brewed coffee.
I had a lot to do today so only got through part of the paper. Tonight I came across wonderful and practical advice for car travel these days if you must go further than your bladder radius allows!
Here we are, with all this time to do something safe - drive around, staying in your car to get OUT OF THE HOUSE FOR A WHILE, and then the liquids you imbibed earlier are pushing forcefully to get out......somewhere. Men, you can stop reading here. This doesn't seem to be a problem you need to deal with as I am not really talking about Number Two. The article linked below does cover that however.
https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2020-07-25/public-restrooms-are-disappearing-here-are-survival-strategies
You can probably access this if you haven't used up all your free articles from the LA Times!
Who knew there was such a thing as "pee funnels" for women...Tinkle Belle, Easy Peezy, GoGirl, Shewee—brilliant! So if you can find that quiet corner out in the brush, well, you are saved from revisiting your four year old self's embarrassing boo-boo! Just be careful and check for ticks.
I am scraping the bottom of the toilet (in this case) for sewer articles, especially ones in Los Osos.......
Sunday, July 26, 2020
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Monarch Grove Sewer Rate Increase Pending!
UPDATE!! This is NOT accurate info from a tip I got from a Monarch Grove resident! I hope to have more info tomorrow as to what is correct and what is not!!
You'd think I would have heard of this sooner, but the Estero Bay News came to my rescue with the latest sewer news!
Read all about it here - http://esterobaynews.com/county-to-hike-sewer-rates-for-monarch-grove/
Neil Farrell has written this excellent article on this topic! (I will be forever indebted to him for helping me out with a ton of information for my book on Los Osos/Baywood Park.)
So mark you calendar for August 11 for what might be a fascinating reading of the 83 votes— Yes or No— to be revealed at the Board of Supes - as to whether or not Monarch Grove will up their sewer rates, just like we did in the Prohibition Zone! The pertinent documents are not on the County website, but when posted I will notify all of you dear readers (three of you are probably not bots anyway, at least, I hope, but who knows.......)!
The LOCAC meeting was very enlightening on the evening of July 23! The actual happening here was nothing requiring a 218 vote - that is long over. It was the County enrolling the Monarch Grove sewer taxes onto the County's tax rolls, that's it! Phew for the residents of Monarch Grove!
You'd think I would have heard of this sooner, but the Estero Bay News came to my rescue with the latest sewer news!
Read all about it here - http://esterobaynews.com/county-to-hike-sewer-rates-for-monarch-grove/
Neil Farrell has written this excellent article on this topic! (I will be forever indebted to him for helping me out with a ton of information for my book on Los Osos/Baywood Park.)
So mark you calendar for August 11 for what might be a fascinating reading of the 83 votes— Yes or No— to be revealed at the Board of Supes - as to whether or not Monarch Grove will up their sewer rates, just like we did in the Prohibition Zone! The pertinent documents are not on the County website, but when posted I will notify all of you dear readers (three of you are probably not bots anyway, at least, I hope, but who knows.......)!
Thursday, July 16, 2020
London Fatbergs!
The photos on this article were just too great, I had to share!!
https://www.mswmag.com/online_exclusives/2020/07/london-sewer-cleaning-program-removes-700-tons-of-fatbergs-debris?utm_source=campaigner&utm_campaign=MSW200714&utm_content=newsletter&cmp=1&utm_medium=email
Will we ever get this bad?
Then there was this:
https://www.mswmag.com/online_exclusives/2018/02/portion-of-massive-london-fatberg-becomes-museum-exhibit?ref=related_body
YIKES. (And don't miss the candy at the end!)
I swiped the image below off the internet......as I used to say in Latin back in middle school (once called Jr. High): barfus upus!
https://www.mswmag.com/online_exclusives/2020/07/london-sewer-cleaning-program-removes-700-tons-of-fatbergs-debris?utm_source=campaigner&utm_campaign=MSW200714&utm_content=newsletter&cmp=1&utm_medium=email
Will we ever get this bad?
Then there was this:
https://www.mswmag.com/online_exclusives/2018/02/portion-of-massive-london-fatberg-becomes-museum-exhibit?ref=related_body
YIKES. (And don't miss the candy at the end!)
I swiped the image below off the internet......as I used to say in Latin back in middle school (once called Jr. High): barfus upus!
Click image to enlarge!
Friday, July 03, 2020
Outhouses!
Yes, this is a sewer blog and an outhouse is not a sewer, but since this is a LOS OSOS sewer blog, outhouses did once figure in a protest on the Tri-W property about the then sewer project (not the sewer we finally got). Here is a shot of the shot in my book from Neil Farrell, then of the Bay News (now of the Estero Bay News).Thanks Neil, you were a huge help on my book!
The outhouses were placed as a warning, that stopping the sewer project would result in a shut down to using your home septic tank from the Regional Water Quality Control Board, and we'd all have these big boxes of necessity in our FRONT yards, probably because one would not fit between the fence and the house on many PZ lots to deliver the thing to the BACK yard, and of course how would you pump it out if in the back? (Fun fact - If you can go from the tanker truck to the back yard within 40 feet - you're good!)
So, running out of things about our sewer as it is running along just fine, I'll blog about history, and OUTHOUSES! A wonderful invention that we still use today. Remember the last time you were in one? Or, like many of us, did you need to repress that memory? (The fancy ones at budding wineries and outdoor movie sets are pretty nice though....)
History of the Outhouse - did you know: "...fossilized excrement can provide clues about the diet and health of past users."
https://toiletology.com/resources/history/history-of-the-outhouse/
MarBorg - serves four counties of the Central Coast!
https://www.marborg.com/
Port-a-Potty Rental Guide
https://www.portapotty.net/rental/
Pinterest
https://www.pinterest.com/mooomooo50/outhouses/
Now, for an abridged portable port-a-potty!
https://www.mypilotstore.com/MyPilotStore/sep/676?qryrmv=1&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=4-10&keyword=porta%20toilet
THE OUTHOUSE POEM
Author Unknown
The service station trade was slow
The owner sat around,
With sharpened knife and cedar stick
Piled shavings on the ground.
No modern facilities had they,
The log across the rill
Led to a shack, marked His and Hers
That sat against the hill.
“Where is the ladies restroom, sir?”
The owner leaning back,
Said not a word but whittled on,
And nodded toward the shack.
With quickened step she entered there
But only stayed a minute,
Until she screamed, just like a snake
Or spider might be in it.
With startled look and beet red face
She bounded through the door,
And headed quickly for the car
Just like three gals before.
She missed the foot log – jumped the stream
The owner gave a shout,
As her silk stockings, down at her knees
Caught on a sassafras sprout.
She tripped and fell – got up, and then
In obvious disgust,
Ran to the car, stepped on the gas,
And faded in the dust.
Of course we all desired to know
What made the gals all do
The things they did, and then we found
The whittling owner knew.
A speaking system he’d devised
To make the thing complete,
He tied a speaker on the wall
Beneath the toilet seat.
He’d wait until the gals got set
And then the devilish tike,
Would stop his whittling long enough,
To speak into the mike.
And as she sat, a voice below
Struck terror, fright and fear,
“Will you please use the other hole,
We’re painting under here!”
This is classic Americana!
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Now, for a favorite shot ripped off the Internet a decade or more ago:
So, running out of things about our sewer as it is running along just fine, I'll blog about history, and OUTHOUSES! A wonderful invention that we still use today. Remember the last time you were in one? Or, like many of us, did you need to repress that memory? (The fancy ones at budding wineries and outdoor movie sets are pretty nice though....)
History of the Outhouse - did you know: "...fossilized excrement can provide clues about the diet and health of past users."
https://toiletology.com/resources/history/history-of-the-outhouse/
MarBorg - serves four counties of the Central Coast!
https://www.marborg.com/
Port-a-Potty Rental Guide
https://www.portapotty.net/rental/
https://www.pinterest.com/mooomooo50/outhouses/
Now, for an abridged portable port-a-potty!
https://www.mypilotstore.com/MyPilotStore/sep/676?qryrmv=1&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=4-10&keyword=porta%20toilet
THE OUTHOUSE POEM
Author Unknown
The service station trade was slow
The owner sat around,
With sharpened knife and cedar stick
Piled shavings on the ground.
No modern facilities had they,
The log across the rill
Led to a shack, marked His and Hers
That sat against the hill.
“Where is the ladies restroom, sir?”
The owner leaning back,
Said not a word but whittled on,
And nodded toward the shack.
With quickened step she entered there
But only stayed a minute,
Until she screamed, just like a snake
Or spider might be in it.
With startled look and beet red face
She bounded through the door,
And headed quickly for the car
Just like three gals before.
She missed the foot log – jumped the stream
The owner gave a shout,
As her silk stockings, down at her knees
Caught on a sassafras sprout.
She tripped and fell – got up, and then
In obvious disgust,
Ran to the car, stepped on the gas,
And faded in the dust.
Of course we all desired to know
What made the gals all do
The things they did, and then we found
The whittling owner knew.
A speaking system he’d devised
To make the thing complete,
He tied a speaker on the wall
Beneath the toilet seat.
He’d wait until the gals got set
And then the devilish tike,
Would stop his whittling long enough,
To speak into the mike.
And as she sat, a voice below
Struck terror, fright and fear,
“Will you please use the other hole,
We’re painting under here!”
This is classic Americana!
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Now, for a favorite shot ripped off the Internet a decade or more ago:
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