~ Retired and Starting My Future In The Foothills ~

[~*Sweet Cheeks*~]

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My grandparent's last name was Olmsted (spelled without the a)

 

[dsqard]

Linda I just want to say congratulations on your new home! You are so going to love having all that room and so are all of your birds and your two dogs. I can't wait to see the metal sign by the end of your driveway and all of the other improvements. Sounds like you didn't just get a house but gained a wonderful community!

 

[speckledhen]

Linda, I haven't posted yet, though I've been following your thread with interest. Congrats to you. Looks like it will be such a lovely place to call home.

 

[gryeyes]

Boy, I need some ideas about how to live somewhere without running water. The fence will be in and the coop will be ready weeks before the well and pump are working. I want to move. I want to move IN.

I took some more boxed items to the house last night, plus some frozen meats to put in the freezer section of the fridge. Then I invited myself to dinner with HHandbasket and Farmer Lew. We watched a movie I hadn't seen, and I left to go home to my current rental lodgings. On the way, I drove past my house to see how it looks at night.

The lamp in the one window gives a nice, warm, occupied glow. The solar-powered driveway lights (like candles flickering in carriage lamps hung from short shepherds' hooks) are absolutely lovely. Three "fairy" orbs, in different colors, are hung from branches of widely spaced trees up near the house.

I have a four day weekend, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. Monday the phone will be turned on, and DirecTv will get installed and set up. (I remembered to bring a TV set because they can't set up without one...). The washer, dryer and stove are scheduled to be delivered Tuesday.

But it will be weeks before I can use the shower (which is kinda important for somebody with a job), or the washer - not too awful, as I have the laundry set at the house I'm renting. Kinda like a free laundromat, but I'm the only customer. The next door neighbor offered to drag a hose from one of his outdoor faucets over through the fence so I could fill a bucket to carry to the bathroom for toilet operation.

 

[HHandbasket]

It was nice to have you over for dinner last night. Wasn't that a trippy movie?

I am alone on the ranch today. This is so awesome.

Well, not really alone. Just me, 32 chickens, 2 great pyrenees, 9 cats, a black lab named Oscar, our dog Ginger, 33 alpacas, and a llama. But other than that, I'm alone.

 

[Kansaseq]

As someone who regularly loses her water in the most freezing parts of winter, I am very farmiliar with the 'bucket' bath. Not so bad, really, but it's not the same as a real shower. Maybe you could drink bottled water and 'borrow' Hhanbasket's shower in the evenings? At least it would save having to pay for a motel room, just to have a shower.

 

[gryeyes]

Well, there aren't any hotels around.... A few bed and breakfast locations, pretty pricey. I have not moved out of the house I'm renting, which is only 7 miles from work, as opposed to 52 miles for the house I bought.

I have used sponge bath water heated by tea kettle on many an occasion, I suppose I could do that and every other day stay in town to shower and wash my hair. That's a possibility.

Hmmmmmmm. I may be just over thinking this. Can't move the flock 'til the coop is done, anyway. Can't live away from the flock.

 

[sonjab314]

Linda I am so happy for you. If I were closer I'd come pay you a visit. I can tell that you are very proud of your new house and you have every right to be. It is absolutely charming. You'll have to post pics of the new house when you get settled. Shall I start "helping" you in finding some call duck eggs...or any other type of egg you desire? lol

 

[Carols Clucks]

My boss, a plumber, will run 2 1" hoses from one building to the next via the hose bibs if we have to make a repair that will leave a building with out water for an extended time (like when the pipe broke at the meter box)

Turn both hose bibs to open and you have running water, maybe not a lot of it though

 

[gryeyes]

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Hose bibs? From one building to the next? My water supply is a well, with a low flow (less than a gallon a minute) and the pump itself is "very tired" and works too hard, blowing the circuit breaker. Therefore, there is no water flow from the well. The well drilling company is going to dig the fairly shallow well deeper, and the pump will be replaced. This will take some time, what with permits through the county and all that....

The closest other building is my next door neighbor a good 300 feet away from the property line between us.

So your suggestion confuses me a bit. Can you explain further? My neighbor was going to pull his garden hose over to the property line and leave a nozzle on it, so I could fill buckets with water. What exactly were you describing?