Delmar, NY
Heading Into Little Falls on NY 170
Driving on NY 170 through the Town of Fairfield in Herkiner County. Farm country along "Top Notch" outside of Little Falls.
Nice Summer Day At Coney Island.
Hudson River at North River
Not a lot of color along the Hudson River in North River along NY 28.
Frank Zappa – Waka Jawka
I have been listening to this album a lot lately.
Wilcox Lake
Last weekend on Saturday I hiked back to Wilcox Lake and spend some time sitting back there. It was about a 12 mile round trip from camp, so it was a nice hike, quiet down along the East Stoney Creek.
Shawn James – Toilet Paper and Composting Toilet | Off Grid Living
I still get many questions about our toilet, which is not always visible in my videos, and where we store our toilet paper (top secret!). We use an outhouse during the day and a chamber pot at night if it's really cold outside.
I've always thought it was kind of a waste to use toilet paper and flush it down the toilet in the city. Most of the toilet paper is removed at the primary clarifier and hauled to the landfill -- at least for towns without sewage sludge incinerators (like Albany) or biosoilids processing plants (that compost or gasify the waste and use the residuals for spreading on farm fields). That said, I've never used a bidet but they've gotten popular with all of the shortages lately of toilet paper. Certainly if I had a septic system at my house, I'd keep a trash can by the toilet, toss it in burn barrel with the other paper trash. But for an outhouse, probably the best way to deal with toilet paper is to toss it in, and use the carbon to tie down the nitrogen in the poop.