Moving On

So the water pressure is still not good. In fact it is so bad that I might as well not have water. I really was hoping I could cope. But, after I realized that I was calling the water department for the third time in one afternoon, I knew I wasn’t coping very well! Then, just to show it could, the electricity decided to go out. There was no warning and no fanfare, it just stopped. It took about an hour for it to decide to come back on.

To cheer myself up, I decided to clean house. You know how a clean house always makes a woman feel better. It took a little doing but I finally got into the spirit of the thing. First you see I have to take a pain pill – doc says I gotta start taking advantage of these things. One pill in 6 months is really not going to help anything. After the pill was taken I waited about an hour to be sure it was kicking in real good. Then I looked at the dining room table and decided to wait a little longer. Eventually, of course I started vacuming. Then by the time I got to the next room, the living room, I caught a crazy bug and decided it was time to rearrange the furniture. Keep in mind, the pill had to be taken for the pain in the hip and back, but I was still going to rearrange two sofas, a heavy recliner chair and all that other stuff. Oh, I did it but it took a long, long time. Things had to be moved just a little at a time. I really like how it all turned out. AND it did cheer me up to see it done.

While cleaning I discovered a big mess in the cat tree. Dayton had been shedding his manliness all over the top perch where he likes to hang out. Look at this big pile of Dayton that I pulled off that perch. He is mad at me now as I found this stash and threw it away. I have not a clue as to what he was going to do with it all. Clio has plenty of fur of her own so he was not going to be able to impress her with it. There is enough there to make a stuffed toy!

After the cleaning – or rather when I could not bring myself to clean anymore, it was time to clean myself. Of course, with no water pressure there is no such thing as a shower. Also, with the water pressure so low, hubbie had instructed me to turn off the hot water heater so as to not burn it out. He is out of town, but if that water heater gets burned up, he is the one who will have to replace it. It is bad enough that I have to manually fill the toilet tanks up. But, now I thought I had no hot water for a bath even though it would take 45 minutes to fill up a tub. So this is where PIONEER WOMAN comes into being. I reasoned that pioneer women kept clean and kept their children clean. They had to draw water from a well or spring, then haul it into the house, heat it up and pour it into a tub. All I had to do was let the water run for a bit to fill up the tub and then heat some more up to get a good bath. Well, I had a good bath! I dug out my big canning pan and used it to heat the water. It was amazing at how fast it warmed up. I used the guest bath tub as it is a whole lot smaller than the master bath and so did not need too much water. Once in the tub, I even washed my hair. It was a tight fit, but I was able to lay back in the water to get my hair wet. Thank goodness for short hair.

So now it is bed time for me – although it is almost morning I think now I will be able to sleep. I know why Pioneer woman did not need sleeping pills. The work to get clean every night must have really worn them out. Of course, the work to keep a house clean every day must have also contributed to the ability to sleep. Though, I wonder if they kept as clean as we do? If everybody had a little body odor and did not bath on a once or twice daily basis, then it probably was acceptable not to smell like roses everyday of the week. The legend of the Saturday night bath has to have some basis in facts, right?