Maggie's Farm fell victim to the ice storm of 2008 on Thursday. Also on Friday and Saturday....
But we were lucky in many ways: We had heat (Our home is heated via woodstove) and we had phone access (ancient land line telephone). We had a working stove (Propane) and most importantly, we had each other, safe, sound and cozy on a dark, spectacularly ice-ridden December evening.
What we didn't have and grew to miss most accutely was water. Our well runs by an electric pump and so we awoke to dry faucets and unflushable toilets. Not so fun for a family of five. Extra unfun for our thirsty animals. Luckily, we were able to catch the drippings off the roof to flush toilets. And we melted chunks of ice by the woodstove for the animals. The contents of the fridge did just fine on the porch and the freezers (Thanks to an infusion of ice) kept our harvest bounty cold.
Dan was able to drive into town for jugs of water (And take-out Chinese food) and things were fine and cozy again.
The kids just received a gift of really neat battery-free flashlights from their grandmother, and so the night was filled with the RRrrrrr RRRrrrr of wind-up LED and the gentle glow of candles and lanterns. We read and played board games and missed nothing much.... except water.
On Saturday, we drove down to the Greenfield YMCA for "Family Swim" and much (much!)needed showers.
Not so bad really. Not so bad at all.
3 comments:
You're doing well without water there! I think we'd have a hard time of it. Good to hear an update from you.
wow. and more wow. Our water comes from a well too, and is pumped with electricity...so we would be in the same boat as you. It goes out periodically, and I really miss water.
:0)
PS did you close your Etsy shop?
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