No phone! No lights! No motorcar! Not a single luxury! Like Robinson Caruso, it’s primitive as can be. ;)
Actually, the pressure tank went wonky, so I WAS without water for a few days...but it rained all of those days so my (soon to be illegal!) 55 gallon rain barrel is fuller than full. ;)
What am I saying? I don’t have a rain barrel. I misspoke, Mr. Brownshirt! ;)
And PLEASE don’t tell the, ‘Grocers Cartel’ that supper tonight is a Rib-Eye from my own hand-raised steer, green beans from the garden picked earlier today and homemade cinnamon applesauce from my own apple trees.
*SMIRK*
..... my (soon to be illegal!) 55 gallon rain barrel ....
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Rain barrels are going to be illegal? What is the reasoning behind that? I’m not even going to put into words what I’m thinking right now .....
We lose power & we lose it all - phone, well/water, etc. We do have a hand pump on an old shallow well so in the past, I’ve pumped 5 gallon buckets for flushing the toilets. Before I renovated the old house & moved out here, I had to hand pump water for the horses all winter when the water line to the barn froze up or there was no power. When living here, I also had two big trash cans in the mud room I would fill up when the power was out for a couple of days, then I didn’t have to go outside every time I needed some water. We’re on what used to be a dead end road & until they built a subdivision off the end of it, we were some of the last folks to get our power restored when there was a big storm that knocked out large areas.
I can ‘rough it’ if I have to - the way things are going, it’s a skill that might come in handy.