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The Comprehensive Guide to Composting Toilets: Understanding, Benefits, and Installation

The Comprehensive Guide to Composting Toilets: Understanding, Benefits, and Installation

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Image by Andrew Martin from Pixabay Embracing composting toilets is a pivotal step towards sustainable living in modern households. As the world becomes increasingly aware of our environmental impact, more households are seeking eco-friendly home improvements. Central to this movement is the humble toilet, often overlooked but incredibly important. Composting toilets offer a sustainable, environmentally friendly alternative, reducing water usage and waste production. This article will delve into what these toilets are, how they operate, and why they might be the next step in your journey towards a greener home. What is a Composting Toilet? A composting toilet is a system that processes human waste through organic decomposition and evaporation. Instead of flushing waste away with water, it transforms it into valuable compost. This is achieved without chemical agents and instead harnesses natural decomposition processes. Unlike the toilets most are familiar with, which rely heavily on...

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Make Easy Ice Luminaries + Helpful Tips for Stunning Results

Oh, the weather outside is frightful! Which means it’s the perfect time of year to make ice luminaries. When the temperature drops below freezing, you get the perfect conditions to make and display these beautiful icy decorations. They’re easy to make, require basic household items and the end result is much more beautiful than the sum of its parts. And if the weather stays cold, they’ll last all winter long. What You’ll Need Two buckets or bowls of differing sizes, one smaller than the other. (I have found that a 2-gallon bucket and a 2.5-quart paint mixing cup work perfectly together.) Experiment with different sizes to find what you like. Painter’s Tape Water Votive candles Freezing, cold weather (or room in your deep freeze) Optional-Evergreen sprigs and berries Instructions Place the smaller bucket or bowl inside the larger one. Now, using nice, long strips of painter’s tape, create a cross…
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How to Make a Ceiling Light Fixture from Old Chicken Feeders

Learn how to make a ceiling light fixture from recycled chicken feeders with this easy DIY project.Even with minimal building capability, you can learn how to make light fixtures from old metal chicken feeders. The feeders may be hard to come by, but if you know someone that has been in the commercial chicken-raising business, then you can likely find some in their used feeder pile. That’s how I got some of mine.This project is really quite simple. First, you will need to decide if you want a fixed light or a swag lamp. I made some of both. I ordered parts from a site I found by searching around on the Internet that supplied the lamp cords, sockets with rings, and rods. You can order any length rod depending on how low you want the light to hang.Project Materials and Components The parts I ordered to make the fixed…
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How To Make Perfume from Flowers and Herbs from Your Garden

Learn how to make perfume from flowers, herbs, and other plants from your garden. This tutorial focuses on how to make oil based perfume.My friend Mary has a green thumb and gets a bumper crop of clary sage every year. We are always trying to preserve the unusual, heady scent. Last year she put some in a glass canning jar with vodka in the hope that the scent would transfer to the vodka. It did not work. I did some research about homemade essential oil stills, thinking maybe we should try that route. These run the gamut from store-bought copper stills that will extract the pure scent from your flowers and herbs to homemade stills employing modified kettles, bags of ice and hoses. Either way, we are a little intimidated by the distiller idea and decided against it.How to Make Oil Based PerfumeThis year I invited Mary to bring her…
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How to Shoe a Horse

Lesson one is observation. Become hoof conscious. The important thing is to learn the appearance, balance, and symmetry of a normal hoof. Hang onto the halter rope for a farrier whenever possible. He may be a silent or cantankerous old cuss, but at least you’ll be looking at the bottom of a lot of feet, and becoming acquainted with the tools and, their use. And if he is willing to talk, take advantage of it, but don’t believe all you hear. Next is to develop a firm, quiet method of handling horses’ feet. I’ve seen a ten-year-old girl pick up the feet of a horse that a “farrier” had to tie up to shoe. Remember that you’re going to be shaky at first. About the time you decide that it takes four hands to hold a hammer, nail, shoe, and hoof in proper alignment all at once, and your gasket…
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DIY Paper Mache Ghostly Lanterns

Guide trick or treaters and other friendly spirits to your front door this Halloween with these easy-to-make DIY paper mache ghostly lanterns.Why not make a spooky lantern to match each member of your family? To begin, you can vary the size of the balloons and the amount of air in them. Add paper cutout accessories such as noses, jewelry or bowties for a personal touch to DIY Halloween decor.You will need (per lantern)2 tablespoons Elmer’s    all-purpose glue1-3/4 cup wat
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