Outdoor Shower 
SHOWER, LESS(15)
Outdoor solar shower Limiting Showers Can Save Water, Energy and Our Health I didn’t shower this morning. And I don’t (think I) smell. You see, while I wrote a post about Navy Showers as a water saving technique a while back, the truth is I am not very good at them. I like showering, and [...]
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Outdoor solar shower circa 2003 The weather’s been very pleasant lately – very odd thing to say in July. Saturday night we witness a lightning storm in the mountains just north of us as some tropical moisture moved up from Mexico. We didn’t get any rain though. With the warmer temperatures, the indoor bathing facilities [...]
(21) SHOWER & TRELLIS
We first built our outdoor solar shower back in 2003 to save energy and to reclaim greywater for irrigated the surrounding edibles. Through the years the outdoor solar shower has gone through a few improvements and everyone enjoys using the facility during the warm weather months. This week, another outdoor bathing (or showering I should [...]
(10) OUTDOOR SHOWER
Can’t believe I failed to mention that last week’s heatwave made taking outdoor showers even more enjoyable and refreshing. We built our first outdoor shower back in 2003 and have been lovin’ it ever since. Can’t beat the atmosphere and view, sometimes even bees will visit while in the shower stall. Not to mention we [...]
(13) THIS & THAT
Overcast day Cool Down A blanket of clouds brings relief to the Southland and none to soon. What a difference a week (actually, a day) makes . Friday was humid and hot. Last Saturday was the hottest day here in some 20 years. However, this Saturday, the clouds rolled in, the humidity dropped [...]
(5) WATER WISE
Toilet lid sink. “Spanky” inspects the job (yep that’s handmade soap you see.) This past weekend the guys installed the new toilet lid sink (on one of two low flush toilets) in the back service bathroom. Remember, it’s the bathroom where we ran into trouble trying to install the compost toilet… we think we figured [...]
(4) BUSY
Solar shower & sun oven Sorry for the lack of postings this week. It’s been just too nice outside and too many things to do around the urban homestead. The guys are working on the last phase in the expansion of the animal enclosure. Now that the sun is out, we re-foiled the solar oven [...]
(8) ODDS & ENDS
New soil The guys recently emptied the “green monster” composter of rich, black soil full of redworms filling up almost 2, 55 gallon drums. Today we gals will also be trying our hand at making cheese from goat’s milk (not from our goat’s milk — yet!). Should be fun. The goats are finally settling into [...]
(3) BOOHOOO
GASP! Our fave, natural toothpaste (“family”) company sells out to a mega company, corporation ! I guess that means we’ll have to find another toothpaste brand or perhaps this should propel us to make our own. It’s not that hard to make your own using simple ingredients you can find in your kitchen cupboard. Making [...]
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