Friday, March 30, 2012

Who Needs Water Anyway?

I don't think you ever realize how much you use water, until you don't have it.  I mean, sure, you know you drink it, and use it to rinse dishes or whatever.  But I didn't know I could miss it so much.  Until we didn't have it for 22 hours.

Yup.

Long story short, our water line broke.  And it happened last Thursday evening, so unfortunately, no one could come and fix it till the next day.  We are talking 22 hours of no water for dishes, showers, baths, cleaning up spilled cereal (seriously, the only time Miley has spilled a full bowl of cereal.  Ever. On the day we don't have water), no flushing toilets, all of that glamorous stuff.

The excavators came out the next morning and dug a 10-ft. deep hole in our front yard.  The good news?  Our water is working again.  The bad news?  We now have a rather large spot in our front yard with no grass.  Someone is supposed to come fix it in a couple weeks though, thank goodness.


I don't think I ever want to go that long without water again.  And on that note, I am off to go get myself a big, tall glass of...yup.  You guessed it.  Ice water.  And sit and look at how beautiful our front yard is right now.  Not.  Who needs grass anyway, right?

3 comments:

Max Polson said...

Sounds like you guys ought to get some water storage barrels in that big empty basement of yours.

Kipp and Gelsey said...

Long story short... ha ha. :) That may be a better one left untold, right? And nobody NEEDS grass, but water is a different story! I didn't even think about no flushing toilets. Fun! Glad you guys got it taken care of!

Cindy Clark said...

Sad for you! Trust me, I know how you feel. Going without water is so common for us, I don't even think about blogging about it. Water is delivered to us and stored in tanks on our roof. We try not to run out, but with 6 peolpe, showers, laundry and an over zealous gardener, we often do. To put it nicely, it's a major inconvenience.