tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13593902.post6668465566949855050..comments2024-02-11T09:55:50.468-08:00Comments on The Eastside View: OuthouseCharles Sherehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10480432901356490235noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13593902.post-36512014104838928602012-07-03T07:26:33.517-07:002012-07-03T07:26:33.517-07:00Where do you get your water?
From a well?
We had...Where do you get your water?<br /><br />From a well?<br /><br />We had friends years ago who built a house in Sebastopol, for which I did a full landscape design. The wife didn't like it. Why is it that wives never like their husbands' friends?<br /><br />Any, we stayed the night there once, and on a hunch I lifted up the toilet tank lid, and discovered that there was a very dark (black) residue inside the tank where the water level was. I asked my friend about this and he told me the water testing had indicated a very high potassium level in the water. I asked him if this was safe, a safe level to consume. He just shrugged and said they never worried about it.<br /><br />I just looked up potassium on Google and apparently excess can cause kidney stones. But then, apparently, so can spinach and rhubarb and a host of other foods or food contaminants. <br /><br />My only question is: Why didn't you just demolish the old outhouse when you started building on the property? Was it sentimentality? You could have built yourself a dandy little shed for the garden tools, or even have ordered one of those prefab jobs--without going through the awkward task of trying to retrofit this old shack.Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.com