This is the kind of conversation we have here...

"Come see my toilet! I've got the first flush toilet in the gulch!"

I'm not making this up. Furthermore, it caused a stampede to go see the toilet. Honest.


Remember M's Dome? Last summer M's Dome was all I could blog about. Well, M's Dome is so last year. M had to move back to the city early in the winter when the money ran out and the weather socked in, and lately he's only been able to come out for weekends.

M is getting ready to pour the footers for the retaining wall that will allow M's Dome to become M's Earth-Bermed Home. He got L, our neighbor with the backhoe, to help him dig the footers.




But first! M and Landlady gave me a gift! Unbeknown to me, they also got L to dig all the excavation for my septic system! That took about five hours. Very cool! I don't actually own most of the pipes I need to fill the excavation, but that's cool. There's work to be done while I'm getting money together for the pipes.

While M was waiting for L to finish with my digging, he did some work of his own. I've had water available from the well and water system M put in since last year, but M himself has not. For the past week he's been exactly one pipe fitting short of making it work. Today he installed that one fitting, and then...

And then...

(Fanfare, please!)



He installed his toilet, hooked it up, and it works great!

So let it be known far and wide, M has the first running flush toilet in our little gulch! YAY!

During beer and conversation this evening, somebody (I think it was Landlady) said, "I think we may have taken decentralization too far. Do you know we have a fifty-acre bathroom? The shower's in the barn, and the toilet's over there on the other ridge. I'm not sure this is a good concept."