gone fishing
these two lucky rascals are taking an extra-long weekend (5-6 days) away together of truck-camping, fishing, hotspring soaking and who-knows-what-other-shenanigans,
while r and i hold things down around here.
meanwhile...not 5 minutes after they left, the neighbor called to tell me that the electric fence must not be working as all the lambs were out in the driveway.
fortunately they won't run off, so the fence will have to wait. i wouldn't know where to begin to fix it.
then, tonight, the water pump went kaput and so the house is without running water for the first time in about 9 years. that's ok, though, as we have multiple back ups until they return and c can fix or replace the pump:
there is another surface-water well outside with it's own electric pump and even a hand pump if necessary... which means we'll just haul any water we need from the spigot out in the yard in clean 5 gallon buckets (these guys have the 5 gallon camping water tank with them, of course).
even if worse came to worst, there is a third well on our place that supplies water to the barn and our neighbors' house and, while that well is the deepest of the three, it is artesian and so flows constantly even without an electric pump.
we'll also have to heat water since there will be no water reaching the propane hot water heater in the house.
fortunately, i remembered to turn the hot water heater off so as not to burn it up when it went dry.
fortunately it isn't so warm yet that we can't keep a fire in the wood stove to have hot water on hand.
unfortunately, there is a full load of dirty dishes in the dishwasher that'll need to be unloaded and hand washed now, then put back in there to dry on the racks. i'm so wishing that i'd run that load BEFORE dinner.
fortunately, the laundry is about as caught up as laundry ever really can be. still, we might need to make a visit to the laundromat at some point or, i suppose, one could wash laundry in the creek if it was absolutely necessary.
unfortunately, there will be no hot showers or baths...while these two guys are probably squeaky clean from soaking in hot springs!
fortunately, we can flush with hauled water. there is also the long-neglected outhouse, and the great outdoors of course.
dang. camping sounds a lot easier, but we'll manage.
at least we don't have to listen to that leaky kitchen faucet drip constantly.
gone fishing
these two lucky rascals are taking an extra-long weekend (5-6 days) away together of truck-camping, fishing, hotspring soaking and who-knows-what-other-shenanigans,
while r and i hold things down around here.
meanwhile...not 5 minutes after they left, the neighbor called to tell me that the electric fence must not be working as all the lambs were out in the driveway.
fortunately they won't run off, so the fence will have to wait. i wouldn't know where to begin to fix it.
then, tonight, the water pump went kaput and so the house is without running water for the first time in about 9 years. that's ok, though, as we have multiple back ups until they return and c can fix or replace the pump:
there is another surface-water well outside with it's own electric pump and even a hand pump if necessary... which means we'll just haul any water we need from the spigot out in the yard in clean 5 gallon buckets (these guys have the 5 gallon camping water tank with them, of course).
even if worse came to worst, there is a third well on our place that supplies water to the barn and our neighbors' house and, while that well is the deepest of the three, it is artesian and so flows constantly even without an electric pump.
we'll also have to heat water since there will be no water reaching the propane hot water heater in the house.
fortunately, i remembered to turn the hot water heater off so as not to burn it up when it went dry.
fortunately it isn't so warm yet that we can't keep a fire in the wood stove to have hot water on hand.
unfortunately, there is a full load of dirty dishes in the dishwasher that'll need to be unloaded and hand washed now, then put back in there to dry on the racks. i'm so wishing that i'd run that load BEFORE dinner.
fortunately, the laundry is about as caught up as laundry ever really can be. still, we might need to make a visit to the laundromat at some point or, i suppose, one could wash laundry in the creek if it was absolutely necessary.
unfortunately, there will be no hot showers or baths...while these two guys are probably squeaky clean from soaking in hot springs!
fortunately, we can flush with hauled water. there is also the long-neglected outhouse, and the great outdoors of course.
dang. camping sounds a lot easier, but we'll manage.
at least we don't have to listen to that leaky kitchen faucet drip constantly.