You are stuck in the halfway of the
wilderness from accident or choice. While you're learning
quite rapidly about your toughness and your admiration for nature,
you still need to go to the bathroom. As you've been brought
up with interior plumbing, being out in the forest and all of a
sudden being forced to go can come as a little of a shock.
However our ancestors have been constructing open-air bathrooms for
a long time. Even so, they still wanted to do some
remodeling. If you're in such a case, here are some bathroom
remodeling tools you should have on hand before you take on such a
plan.
A Spade or Shovel
Please, please, do not simply go to the
bathroom on the land close to your tent and simply leave it
there. Not just will this begin to smell, but will draw rats
as well as insects by the hundreds. The last thing you want
at camp is to fight with rats and insects – because they'll
win. You need some kind of earth-closet or bathroom, and for
that you need the most significant bathroom remodeling tools of all
– shovels and/or spades.
If you can not get a hold of a man-made
shovel or spade, you'll need to make your own. Pounding
sharpened green wood branches into the ground helps loosen
it. If you do not have a knife or machete, and then you
should look for a sharp edged stone. Be patient, and do not
miss the sharp edged stones. They also make excellent
bathroom remodeling tools for the great outdoors.
If you can use dried vines or rope or any
stuff you can, bind the stone to the greenwood branch and dig
little by little. You're best digging at least 6 fts deep,
but do the best you can. Once you're done the hole, find
small pebbles or little stones or even bigger parts of dried tress
bark. Line the bed of the hole with that as best as you can
deal with.
Fire Ash
This is the 2nd most significant of your
open-air bathroom remodeling tools. You should get a good
shovelful (or equivalent) of cooled ash from your fire pit or
campfire and dump it in the temporary hole each time you go.
This ash not just covers the body waste and neutralizes the odor
slightly, but deters both rats and flies.
Eventually, you can use your knife or sharp
stones to make a bark or woven branch “lid” for your hole, weighed
down by stones. Insects also do not like lavender; therefore,
if you happen to discover lavender growing where you are, get some
of it around your hole as a ornamental and helpful outdoor bathroom
remodeling tool.
