{"id":17931,"date":"2022-03-27T17:59:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T21:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/?p=17931"},"modified":"2024-08-27T16:57:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T20:57:57","slug":"chez-macarthur-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/2022\/chez-macarthur-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Chez Macarthur part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Chez Macarthur part 1\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Chez MacArthur \u2013 part one<br>\nMarch 27\/2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My father Mac always had a fondness for toilets. To my recollection they used to be almost like his personal library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My brothers and I had purchased a vacation property in the Muskoka area. We&#8217;re in the process of developing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a wild place to begin with. We cleared out areas to set up our tents, made an area for a cooking fire and built a somewhat rustic kitchen near the fire. We also constructed the single hole outhouse much to my father&#8217;s delight. We christened it Chez Mac because we all expected he was going to be the primary occupant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We had many wonderful times but decided to proceed with putting in a driveway and building a substantial cabin on the side of a hill overlooking the lake. My father, without our knowledge, purchased a composting toilet as his donation to the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The builder of the cabin however suggested that we do the project right, even though the cost would be much higher. We now had a driveway, electricity, and a septic bed that was quite substantial but very environmentally friendly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We had a submersible pump in the lake. The incoming line for the pump was heated to prevent it from freezing in the winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We had a propane hot water tank bathtub shower and sinks in both bathroom and kitchen. This is very civilized and much easier than our camping days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, my father\u2019s rather expensive composting toilet was relegated to a storage area underneath our new cabin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was very disappointed, but did not complain too much, since we promised to build a fancier outhouse right on the shore of the lake. This would be a magnificent, nonpolluting home for his composting toilet. He was excited about this proposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>End of part one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chez MacArthur \u2013 part one March 27\/2022 My father Mac always had a fondness for toilets. To my recollection they used to be almost like his personal library. My brothers and I had purchased a vacation property in the Muskoka area. We&#8217;re in the process of developing it. It was a wild place to begin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memoir"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17941,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17931\/revisions\/17941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}