Wednesday, October 18, 2006
No electricity...
As you know, if you faithfully read our blog, laundry day is Wednesday. Most weeks, however, something occurs to prevent us from finishing our laundry. Today is no different.
Every day, when we come home from school, we figure we have a 50-50 chance of having electricity. Most of the time, when we don't have electricity, it's no big deal. We don't open the fridge and leave it open, and we don't have electricity in the bedrooms or bathroom, but we do have enough through our inverter batteries to run the computer, TV, lights in the living room, and a fan.
Today, when we got home, there was no electricity, which means we can't run the washer. This is a normal occurance... usually the juice comes back on between 3:30 and 4, so we just put the washer in the tub, filled 'er up, and put in a load of whites to bleach and wash. It's now 5:30, it will be completely dark in an hour, and the whites are still "soaking" because the juice is not on.
This small glitch in the day's schedule has also cause another problem: I was going to give John a haircut on the roof today, but since the washer is in the tub, full of water and towels, there is no way he could take a shower after receiving his haircut... so the haircut will have to wait until tomorrow - again.
In spite of those frustrations, thought, it's nice to live here. We're going to the beach in less than 48 hours - we just need to hang on to those thoughts. Today was a teacher-only day, and those are almost always discouraging: more rediculous amounts of work with rediculously high expectations. Tomorrow will be a better day. I think I smell dinner burning in the oven, so I need to stop writing - our oven is either on or off - no degree mark, no in-between, so many things end up burnt. I hope you can successfully get your laundry done when you have time to do it.
Every day, when we come home from school, we figure we have a 50-50 chance of having electricity. Most of the time, when we don't have electricity, it's no big deal. We don't open the fridge and leave it open, and we don't have electricity in the bedrooms or bathroom, but we do have enough through our inverter batteries to run the computer, TV, lights in the living room, and a fan.
Today, when we got home, there was no electricity, which means we can't run the washer. This is a normal occurance... usually the juice comes back on between 3:30 and 4, so we just put the washer in the tub, filled 'er up, and put in a load of whites to bleach and wash. It's now 5:30, it will be completely dark in an hour, and the whites are still "soaking" because the juice is not on.
This small glitch in the day's schedule has also cause another problem: I was going to give John a haircut on the roof today, but since the washer is in the tub, full of water and towels, there is no way he could take a shower after receiving his haircut... so the haircut will have to wait until tomorrow - again.
In spite of those frustrations, thought, it's nice to live here. We're going to the beach in less than 48 hours - we just need to hang on to those thoughts. Today was a teacher-only day, and those are almost always discouraging: more rediculous amounts of work with rediculously high expectations. Tomorrow will be a better day. I think I smell dinner burning in the oven, so I need to stop writing - our oven is either on or off - no degree mark, no in-between, so many things end up burnt. I hope you can successfully get your laundry done when you have time to do it.
// posted by The Roths @ 5:21 PM 
