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July 02, 2008
Water
We don't have public plumbing up here, which is why we have an outhouse.
It is a nice place to read a bit while gazing out at the tundra.
But we have contrived clever ways to deal with this lack. For drinking water, we harvest rainwater. It rolls down the roof and gathers in PVC gutters. It travels down this tube.
And into these buckets. We filter the rainwater with a Britta and drink it. So far, none of us has suffered as a result.
We used to have a water tower fed by a pump that drew water from the spring. The water tower used to feed various pipes, faucets, and spigots around the compoutnd. But the pump is broken and we do not have the wherewithal to fix it. For the time being, we fill these large Tupperware totes with water from the spring, drive them back to our house, and set them on the ground outside the kitchen.
Using this car battery to run a small pump, we pump water into the house for the kitchen sink and shower.
Yes, we have a shower, with water heated by propane. We get to shower once about every five days. Those are good days, those shower days.
And for the grandparents and those of you motivated only by baby pictures, here are my girls, gazing out into the world while the wind whips across the bluff.
The wind continues today. Our catch this morning was once again an improvement on yesterday. Tomorrow we fish at 10:30am. A very agreeable time to fish.
Posted by bogenamp at July 2, 2008 09:20 PM