Doin' the Laundry

When life is normal, you get up in the morning and go about your routine. What would you do if, when you woke up, you found out you had no water coming out of your faucets? And what if you then discovered that water would only be coming out between the hours of midnight and 4 to 5 am every day due to a water shortage in the area? Last year, we kicked and screamed and threw a bit of a fit, but that didn't stop the water shortage (during the last 3 months of dry season), shockingly enough. This year, we opted a different approach. Since April, we have been getting up at night to fill up our bathtub and other containers, so that we can have water during the day. Hauling buckets works for dishes and toilets and floors, but not for laundry. For that we had to be a little more creative...

So, out came the hose, one end in the bathtub...

and through the bedroom, out the window......out the window, down to the washing area...
...where the water is siphoned and fills up all the containers. And now I know how much water it really takes to do the laundry: half a bathtub.

I write this now, with the good news that our water has come back on. There has been rain in the mountains (where our water source flows from), which has increased the water, which has turned us into happy toilet flushers once again. Nothing against the bucket flush method, mind you, I just have a strong preference for the flushing version.