The water's back on....yaaaaaaay!!!

[Raven]

I've been living in my cabin in New Hampshire this year. The water got turned off in mid-October because otherwise the pipes would freeze. So I have been without running water since then, which means, among other things, manually flushing the toilet, doing laundry and taking showers elsewhere! I've hauled water from the lake, gathered rainwater, melted snow and trucked water in. I was fine with this until about two weeks ago when it started to warm up. Then I tried the well pump everyday...nothing. The frost this year went about four feet down underground. Today the pump worked. I'm happy...it's the little things in life that matter!

[NMDemDist2]

1. brrrrrrr you're better than me

no water all winter? good grief

been there done that but through a NH winter??!!??

:yourock:

[Raven]

2. And a cold winter it was...

we had about a month of -40 windchill days. I got used to being without water...I developed "methods" of dealing with that...but once the weather improved I got VERY impatient!

[scarletwoman]

3. Believe me, I quite understand.

I've been living in the northern Minnesota woods for over 6 years without running water -- I haven't been able to afford to get a well drilled (the good water is over 250 feet down under 100 feet of solid rock), so I've just had to adapt.

It's just routine now; hauling water, driving miles for laundry and showers. You just get used to it. At least I have electricity! Lived for awhile with neither, and I must say, electricity is MUCH harder to do without than running water!

Anyway, congratulations on having water again! :toast: It's a dream of mine to have my own someday...

sw

[Raven]

4. I guess we can adjust to almost anything...

which has been a thought I've had all winter...I wonder if people simply begin adjusting to Bush, the loss of privacy, war, job loss...the way I adjusted to being without water. I am afraid they do.

[scarletwoman]

5. Too true -- that's precisely what happens with dysfunctional families.

Even the most egregious abuse becomes "normal".

Good point about this country -- it's astonishing how much destructive and criminal behavior on the part of this maladministration has become accepted and adjusted to. Very frightening, imho.

I used to wonder how in the world the German people accepted and supported Hitler and the Nazi Party -- I don't wonder anymore, we're living in the midst of the very same dynamic: "normalizing" the unthinkable. (*sigh*)

sw

[BeHereNow]

6. I love it!

Thanks for bring back memories of one the
best years of my life!
When I was in my twenties, I lived in
a cabin on southern Indiana, with a
covered bridge out my back door-
Population 37, in a small berg in the middle
of the woods.
Cook stove, wood stove, keep the pipes
from freezing, and hauling
water from the creek just as you describe-
I had a chain saw, a 54 International truck and
lived near a coal mining area that allowed
people to cut and haul all the wood they could
carry.
BEST time I ever had!
And talk about a low cost of living!
I want to live like that again...
Cheers!
BHN