The fun of living in the mountains… Yesterday morning we woke up to – 27 (for about the 7th day in a row) and no water… Aaaaaarrrrrgggggg!!!! At first I thought the pipes under the house might be frozen but since we insulated the attic, they don’t seem to freeze… Go figure?!? This is very good news since the heater that was under there stopped working anyways. So Barry quickly gathered his tools… Shovel, ax, water jugs, funnel and headed to the creek. He found that there is hardly any water in the creek which means our well is dry… Wow, first time that has happened. For those of you that follow this blog regularly, you will remember that we had a really easy run off and we were happy… But now we are thinking that was a bad thing combined with this long cold spell. We went through this the first winter we were here (human error that time) so we are pretty versed on how to make it all happen… Only difference, no toilet this time so we are having to fill the back of it each time it’s used. This has convinced us to dig a second well over here, we will have 2 because this one works when the power is out, hopefully we will never be without that way. It was only -24 this morning, the real cold snap is moving on. Once it’s warm enough we will use a pump but for now poor Barry has to get in there and scoop it out… In these temps, the water is freezing as he scoops it, a Hose is out of the question. We will have to wait until the creek starts to thaw a bit.
On a happier note, it is a long weekend and we are painting! We spent all day yesterday and the paint is already flowing this morning. Barry is working on an elephant and I’m doing an abstract… Something I’ve never done….
Stay tuned…
the day after update…
We woke up to -13 (I missed the fancy ice formations on the windows) and we are supposed to go up to above zero everyday for the next 2 weeks so we are hopeful this will pass quickly. Fingers crossed!