Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["John Smith" <mikakigr@gmail.com>]

I started off with John Smith on Yahoo as a nom de plume, yeah paranoia rules OK, and seem to have got so used to it I don't think about it any more (I'm Mike to the non-Internet world), so no I'm not any of the ones you have met. Sorry. Yes, the bathroom controversy. I actually have got used to sitting down to do whatever I need to do. I usually read one of 4 books I have near the throne. It's one place in the house I can get some peace and quiet, so I make a ceremony of it. At our country place, however, both my father-in-law and I prefer to go outside. If you think about it you are saving the earth's resources if you do this. Every time you flush, you are using drinking water and urine, etc has to be processed somewhere before being added to rivers or the ocean.

 

Nice talking with you, Diane!

 

On 6/9/06, D Knoll <homeschool@iontreasures.com> wrote:

Hey, you're not the same John Smith who used to work at Busch Gardens, are you? :) I know it's a long shot, as there are many John Smiths!

 

All my guys would happily take a whiz wherever they could. I actually would prefer it to be outside, because their bathroom gets rather stinky as everything starts splattering around (the 2 boys aren't too precise!). I think I may start using a pot in their bathroom and dumping it at the appropriate times discussed in the article, or even dumping it on the compost perhaps. Ironically, it will probably be my husband who thinks it's icky.

 

Ideally, I'd like to set up a private sheltered place outdoors, because it truly seems healthier to keep our biological waste outside in the first place, rather than expelling it inside and wasting a lot of water to move it to the outside or clean up the residues.

 

Thanks for comments!

Diane

 

 

Zone 9A, a few miles east of the Gulf of Mexico

----- Original Message -----

From: John Smith

To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing

Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 4:51 PM

Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] another one to add to the pile (so to speak)

 

Urine probably does not contain any ammonia, which is very toxic. In poorly cleaned toilets sometimes there is a smell which develops. I have found that urine is quickly dealt with by soil organisms and even repeatedly urinating in the same spot in the garden will not produce any smell whatsoever. I don't know any men who given the choice would rather use a toilet than go in the great outdoors. Excuse me for saying this Diane but women are usually prissy about this subject, without stopping to think that all the animals of the earth do this. Where a smell develops (cats, foxes) it serves another purpose and it is not ammonia. 

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