A few frosty mornings with lovely warm clear days, nights are frigid. I'll take those warm days for working outside.
I had an eye check on Friday, all clear except for the very beginnings of cataracts. The Dr said that at the usual rate of development I probably have ten years before I need to think about them, but that my yearly eye checks will pick up any faster progression. I ordered another set of reading glasses for work and went home to muse on the subject of aging.
Speaking of aging ... the 75 year old septic has finally failed. We currently have sewage puddling in the back yard. Replacing it with a properly engineered and permitted new system is quoted at around $25,000. The bank wouldn't give us $10k for a zero turn mower so that was never going to be a goer.
So we thought laterally. Composting toilets have come a long way in the last 20 years and we can get one that is self contained, just a tray to empty once every three months of finished compost. A small fan and vent makes it odorless. We can get the one I am considering delivered here for $2660 total. So, at one tenth the cost of a new septic this will do us until my super comes out. If it works well I might not even get a new septic and save the cost.
The aurora showed up again this week, this is a view from Willow Lodge, taken by Tim.
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