Salem Wastewater Treatment Plant

This is one of the many places where my Hunny and I go for "HOT" dates. I will walk you through the process of the Salem Wastewater Treatment Plant. (also known as the sewer plant)

When you flush your POO down the potty it enters the plant here at the "in" hole.



POO then flows in the water to the primary barscreen where the bigger stuff is filtered then raked out, shoveled, and roughly "DUMPED" into the dumpster.


POO and whatever else did not get caught on the primary barscreen then float peacefully on to the secondary barscreen which works in the same process as the primary barscreen.

Everything then continues on to the manual gate junction. Depending on how the operator has it set, the POO and other items may go on a journey to the ditch or the pond, which I will describe later in this blog.

This is a flow meter that measures the flow of gallons of POO and all other objects that have made it through the obstacles discussed so far.

From the flow meter all POO and other now swimming objects head off to the ditch to travel round and round! This is the near aerator. Aerators add oxygen to the water cause as we all know... POOS need oxygen too and the City sure does not want to deprive even the smallest POO of this much needed material!



This is the far aerator that does the same thing as the near aerator. We all know that POO needs plenty of oxygen! (NOTICE THE LEANING LIGHT OF PISA SHIT!!)

From here the water, POO, and all other flushables go on to the clarifier.

This wonderful work of art seperates the liquids from the solids. So POO is now joining all his relatives that have been passed. So in other words its like Heaven for POOS!!!!!!!

This is the pump room. It pumps the sludge from the bottom of the clarifier to the drying beds. This means POOS majestic journey has almost come to an end.

This is a drying bed that is almost ready to shovel. It is also known as a POO GRAVEYARD. This also has the spout where the sludge and POO come from the bottom of the clarifier. The wrench turns the spouts on or off depending on if this particular bed will be the final resting spot for "that" POO or not.

This picture shows the dried POO better than the previous one. Notice the cracks? This POO sure aint no Spring Chick!

This is a lift pump station. It houses 2 pumps that pump 300 gallons of water per minute. That is equal to 180,000 gallons of water a pump! Don't tell me nothing in Salem ever does anything!

From the lift pump station it lifts the water up hill to the rapid sand filters! You can really walk on top of this building! Just hope you dont fall in! The rapid sand filters filter the clean water off the top of the clarifier. It could be clean enough to drink! I believe this is where the Best Choice bottled water that they charge a dollar a bottle comes from.

This is the top of the rapid sand filters.

This is water coming back to the ditch from the rapid sand filters getting a good "BACKWASH". Some objects are luckier than I am! I could sure use a good back wash!

These are the ultraviolet lights that kill any bacteria that may be left in the water from POOS trek through all the objects he had encountered while in this plant.

This is where the Sewer Scientist does all the water testing and records all the gallons that are pumped per day.

This is a weed garden that has grown on POO after he was shoveled out of his final resting spot in the plant.

This is a valve that sends the cleaned "PURE" dinking water into the river.

This is how all the "PURE" water gets from the valve to the river. It just kinda rolls down a whole concrete staircase. It is called a cascade. Like cascading to the never-ending story!

This is Lake Lottahockie. The plant operator sends the dirty water here during floods or during breakdowns. Chances are there is a POO here that just wiggled his way through!

This is a plug or stopper that keeps the dirty water from entering the river when the cascade is open. I did see some POO in here... it was just "kinda" hanging out.

Yes or No

I found this over at Graces blog and decided I might as well take it too.Thanks Grace.

Rules:
1. You can ONLY answer Yes or No.
2. You are NOT ALLOWED to explain ANYTHING unless someone comments and asks!

Questions:
Kissed any one of your Facebook friends? NO
Been arrested? NO
Been in a fight? YES
Fallen fast for someone? YES
Regretted a relationship?YES
Been in a tornado? YES
Fallen asleep at work/school? YES
Ran a red light? YES
Experienced love at first sight? YES
Totaled your car/motorbike in an accident? YES
Been fired from a job? YES
Fired somebody? NO
Sang karaoke? YES
Pointed a gun at someone? NO
Done something you told yourself you wouldn't? YES
Laughed until something you were drinking came out your nose? NO
Caught a snowflake on your tongue? YES
Kissed in the rain? YES
Swam in the ocean? NO
Been to a concert? YES
Laughed till you cried? YES
Sang in the shower? YES
Smoked a cigar? YES
Sat on a rooftop? YES
Smuggled something into another country? NO
Been pushed into a pool with all your clothes? NO
Broken a bone? NO
Skipped school? YES
Got a speeding ticket? NO
Eaten a bug? YES
Sleepwalked? YES
Walked a moonlit beach? YES
Rode a motorcycle / dirt bike? YES
Dumped someone? YES
Seen a baby born? YES
Lied to avoid a ticket? NO
Ridden in a helicopter? YES
Shaved your head? NO
Played a prank on someone? YES
Hit a home run? YES
Felt like killing someone? YES
Cross dressed? YES
Been falling down drunk? YES
Made your girlfriend/boyfriend cry? NO
Marched/Protested? NO
Had Mexican jumping beans for pets? NO
Puked on an amusement ride? NO
Seriously & intentionally boycotted something? NO
Been in a band? NO
Knitted or crocheted? YES
Been on TV? YES
Shot a gun? YES
Skinny dipped? YES
Gave someone stitches? NO
Eaten whole jalapeno pepper? YES
Ridden a surfboard? NO
Drank straight from a liquor bottle?YES
Had surgery? YES
Streaked?YES
Taken by ambulance to hospital? YES
Tripped on mushrooms? NO
Passed out when not drinking? YES
Peed outside? YES
Donated blood? NO
Grabbed electric fence? YES
Eaten alligator meat? YES
Eaten cheesecake? YES
Eaten a kids' Halloween candy? YES
Killed an animal when not hunting? YES
Peed your pants in public? NO
Snuck into a movie without paying? YES
Written graffiti? NO
Still love someone you shouldn't? YES
Think about the future? YES
Been in handcuffs?NO
Believe in love? YES
Sleep on a certain side of the bed? YES

So there. Maybe you will learn something new about me. Then again, maybe not

My Quest

I have been wanting a weed eater pretty badly for the last couple of years so......... I decided to find the perfect one for me. Last night we went to Mountain Home to look for one but all we found was that I was not gonna buy one from Wal-Mart and that Home Depot closes at 8 on Sunday. I decided at work today that I just could not go without my very wanted prized posssession, so off we go to Mountain Home again after the rain let up. We went to Home Depot first and there hanging on the pegger deal on the shelf was my baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is an orange, 17 incher, straight shaft, 2 cycle engine that takes mixed gas, green string, mighty lite Homelite weedeater! I am such a proud owner!

On the way there to rescue the wanted object from a hanging, we traveled on streets of gold!

After saving his life, we went to the fish house to eat and saw the most amazing sight!

It was too late when we got home to play with my new investment, but I will first chance I get! I am naming him Adam and hopefully there will be many blogs that I can write about this awesome sought after machine in the life he has to live and offer his services to me!

HOG WILD

I have been collecting pigs about 5 years. They are all in my kitchen. I have about every kind that there is. There is 1 left that I really want and that is the flying pig out of the old monolopy game. Someday I will get it too! I do not buy to many myself because everyone else gets them for me. I did have them all crammed on a shelf, but it got too full. When I recieved my certificate last week, Dad bought me a bigger curio cabinet! The pigs now have a bigger pen! LOL

Here is the new pen while its empty.

This is after they got placed in their new pen.

These are the big ones that go on the floor.

The small shelf. (Yes, that's cobwebs ) LOL




The top of my refridgerator. OK the coolie aint supposed to be there.

The rest of these are after I got them off the old shelf and moved to get the new pen in.

The Perfect Family

This is my perfect family.
First it really was the PERFECT family: Mom, Dad, and Me!




Then my perfect world got all messed up when along came Grace. So here we are: Mom, Dad, Me, and Grace. See how happy I am in this not-so-perfect-anymore family?




Then it gets so bad that I can't even seem to show my face anymore!


Okay if one sister aint bad enough...... here comes Kyla. By the time this picture was taken I was thinking...... 6 more years ... 6 more years LOL
Since I am already half grown I guess I should grin and bear it...... I'm stuck with this PERFECT family!
I love you all four! Thank you all for putting up with all my crap that I ever gave you guys! You all are so wonderful!

My Littlest Sister

This blog is all about my youngest sister Kyla. She was born December 1985. I had just turned 5 when she was born. She was the sweetest baby, loving child, rebellious teenager, loving momma, then the worst thing happened...... she became addicted to alcohol, marijuana, and METH. Her babies were in state care most of their lives until she did the best thing for them and signed them over to the state. Thank You Kyla.

Kyla stayed with me alot after I had Hannah (built in babysitter I guess)

She was with me when she started her period.

I was the first one they called when they thought John John was going to be born, (he was about 14 hours later) and the one they always came to when something wasn't right with him. Most of the time everything was fine with him but momma was worried.

She did get her GED this year! I am so proud of her for that! Congratulations Sister!!!!!!!!!




Kyla if you ever read this I want you to know I still love you but you need to realize that you do Not need the drugs or alcohol..... you need your family!

My Best Friend

Ok here is a blog about my best friend in the whole world. She is the one I have literally known as long as I can remember.Her name is Grace. Mom and Dad drug her home from the hospital so I could have a playmate. She was born June 20th 1982. I was about 19 months old.


We shared a bedroom until I was in first grade, then wow, I got to leave her! There were times that we would decide that we wanted to be roommates again and one of us would move to the others room. Wow how times have changed!

We were not the best kids around...we skipped school together, sneaked around so we could smoke cigarretes together, run away and walk to the creek when Mom and Dad told us to stay at home.....geez how wonderful those days were! Oh by the way Grace...remember running away to drive around with Billy? Geez were we ever stupid?

Now we are both grown women with families of our own and live about a hour apart. We still see each other all the time and talk about every day...sometimes a lot of times during the day LOL. She has blessed me with 3 handsome nephews and 2 darling nieces. Justin is 10, Kelsey is 8, Brenten is 6, Ashley is 5, and Kaden is 3. They are the cutest little shits in the world (besides my own!)

Grace this parts for you: You are the best sister I could ever have recieved. Thank you for understanding and loving me even when I made some of the stupidest mistakes I possibly could have! I Love You!