Last Thursday, I went to wash my hands in the evening and there was no water. I tried all the faucets in the house and even checked the neighbors faucets whom we share a well with. Nothing. I flipped the well pump breakers several times, gave it some time to cool off and hopefully restart. Nothing. Trudging around the yard in my jammies with a flashlight, cruising through all types of poop in the yard to see if there was a break in the line or geyser coming from somewhere. After about an hour, we called the landlord who was very patient and sweet to us about our predicament. She was able to get a well guy out right away in the morning. In the meantime, we declared that being waterless for 12hrs severely hindered our regular life style. It was like some sort of tiny, waterless hell in our home.
We accumulate a massive amount of dirty dishes within minutes of cleaning the entire kitchen and apparently having no water didn't stop us from managing to dirty every dish in the house. We didn't have water to wash our hands after touching dogs, cats and chickens. I placed a bowl of water (from the blue jugs that we fill from across the street for drinking water) with some soap in it on the stove just to do a little rinse. We couldn't shower, which somehow became our oldest son's obsession and then wouldn't go to school on Friday because there was no water. We couldn't do our weekly load of clothes and we didn't have enough water to give to the pets.
I will now admit that my family is absolutely doomed if we ever lose water again.
It turned out that a wire was rubbed raw and finally broke apart deep down in the well. The well guy was very nice, however, our situation was a tiny cluster f*ck because I had left to go hunting Friday morning and didn't figure we'd have someone out to the homestead so quickly. The dude was patient and was able to get the well back up and running AFTER he had to go get a skinny guy and a ladder to get down into the well.
Now, all is well and we have water (yes, pun intended).
We accumulate a massive amount of dirty dishes within minutes of cleaning the entire kitchen and apparently having no water didn't stop us from managing to dirty every dish in the house. We didn't have water to wash our hands after touching dogs, cats and chickens. I placed a bowl of water (from the blue jugs that we fill from across the street for drinking water) with some soap in it on the stove just to do a little rinse. We couldn't shower, which somehow became our oldest son's obsession and then wouldn't go to school on Friday because there was no water. We couldn't do our weekly load of clothes and we didn't have enough water to give to the pets.
I will now admit that my family is absolutely doomed if we ever lose water again.
It turned out that a wire was rubbed raw and finally broke apart deep down in the well. The well guy was very nice, however, our situation was a tiny cluster f*ck because I had left to go hunting Friday morning and didn't figure we'd have someone out to the homestead so quickly. The dude was patient and was able to get the well back up and running AFTER he had to go get a skinny guy and a ladder to get down into the well.
Now, all is well and we have water (yes, pun intended).