WEEKLY WEATHER REPORT FROM CAMP WEBEGONE
High,
88
Low, 50
Humidity, 34-85%
Wind gusts, 4.7
Rain,
sprinkle
CHERYL'S NEWS FROM CAMP WEBEGONE
As you my recall, Camp
Webegone is a dry camp - no water or electricity. So, where do we get
water and how do we manage it? Rich and I have three sources of water
that we use.
A National Forest
well
The Rouge River
Rainwater
For the rain water, we capture it
in buckets as it flows off the trailer. We use this water for house
cleaning and other tasks where some yuck is okay. If the water is
clear enough, we use it for bathing.
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| Where we get our river water |
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| Rich Hauling Water Buckets |
Rich hauls water from the
river in buckets and ports them to our site on his bicycle. This
water is mostly used for bathing.
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| Rich Filling Water Jugs at the Well |
The well water - our
source of pristine water - is used for drinking, cooking, brushing teeth, face
and hand washing. Rather than take the trailer to the well (which would be a serious pain in
the butt to do), we fill a number of one gallon jugs and one seven
gallon container and haul them back in the truck. These last us about seven days.
Disposing of gray water is
simple now that we have switched to using Dr Bonner's soap for
everything, so that the gray water is earth friendly. Using buckets,
gray water is hauled to various plants and trees, which are then given
our offering. Personally, I think most of the water we collect ends
up in the pit toilet.
A note on bathing. It happens
less often here than when living in the city. Rich and I have differing
methods. Rich uses the bucket method, like when he lived in Haiti. I
do more sponge bathing and about once a week use a solar type shower
that I rigged up inside the trailer shower. I heat about two quarts
of water for this shower. Not a lot of water, but effective. So far
we have not dunked in the river, which, despite it being late summer, still has a temp way too cold
for both of us.
Cheryl
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