Expecting the worse (as in days without water), I brought a couple of hydration bags with me to school today so I could at least have water for the basic necessities (coffee, coffee and coffee).
Hoping that the water Gods were good during the day and there would be water in the tank when I got home was short lived. No water. Sigh. Well, gotta get some water from somewhere so I can flushy-the-loo and maybe, just maybe wash my hair in the morning.
This is how desperate I was:
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Just when I figured I'd be melting snow all evening, the most wondrous sound filed the air - the water truck was pumping our tanks full of water! Oh what a joyous sound! And then I started running around gathering all of the empty water jugs and started filling them up.
Hello shower tomorrow morning!
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During my year in northern Manitoba, the community I was teaching in was under a "boil water" advisory for much of that year. I resorted one weekend to using snow behind my house to make my morning coffee.
I learned two things: 1. It takes a lot of melted snow to full up a cooking pot, and 2. the coffee I eventually made tasted pretty darn good.
Necessity is the mother of all inventions, I suppose.
haha - exactly Darcy.
I did notice, once it was all melted that there were floaties ... don't think I would've been using this for coffee in the morning :-)
So, you strain it, boil it for 5 mins, and its safe. As long as it isn't yellow......
uhm yeah .... how exactly do I strain it? run it through my britta filter? cause I don't got any fine wire strainer.
A facecloth, a dishtowel... just make sure they are clean. Didn't I teach you anything?
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