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Dec. 11, 2007
NO WATER!!!!!!!!!!!
| Our well is dry. I have been afraid all summer of it happening. Sunday it did. I was in the shower and someone flushed a toilet........good thing I was finished. We didn't realize though that it had happened. We got home from church and tried to start lunch. No water to make the rice. Luckily I had a 5 gallon jug put back. Hubby worked all afternoon and all day Monday on it thinking it was the pump. We finally got it pumping and that's when we knew....it wasn't pumping because there's nothing left to pump. It's a sobering realization that you have absolutely no water. You just don't think about how much you use till its not there.....no water to bathe obviously but there's also none to rinse your hands or veggies. All the million times you turn the faucet on and there's nothing coming out. And the toilet...........oh my. Do you know how much water it takes to flush your toilet.....I do. Even with flushing only when we have to buying gallons of water to flush is just not an option. So we're making lemons out of lemonade.....so to speak. We've been doing the Prairie Primer and just finished The Long Winter. One of the questions the girls had was "what did they do about going to the bathroom when they were snowed in by the blizzards?" Well we thought they had a chamber pot.......so we have taken it a step farther. We now have a composting toilet....at least temporarily. The smell is nowhere near as offensive as necessity flushing. I will be glad to have water back though....we just have to come up with the money to drill a new well.......$3500 minimum. |
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