Thursday, September 18, 2008

Life Off the Grid a.k.a. Camping In the House

So, the hot water heater allowed us to take lukewarm showers up through Wednesday (although the shower Wednesday was rather invigorating!). Otherwise, we are doing rather well without electricity. It dawned on me Tuesday after we went to bed, that we COULD plug in a lamp and have REAL LIGHT!! We laughed a lot about that! We are gradually adapting. The biggest issue is the shower thing. So yesterday I went out and bought a solar camp shower thingy. We heated water on the camp stove and mixed it with room temperature water to fill the 5 gallon bag. However, the tubing and stopcock are rather wimpy so this will take some tinkering. All I can say is I'm sort of clean enough to teach today....

Later!

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