Whatever

How's it going in your world Dean?

 

The subject of bathing aside, I gather my own water from a natural spring in a state park about 1.5 hours away. This is the water I use for drinking and cooking - anything and everything from boiling asparagus to making coffee. On a Saturday morning (every six weeks or so), I drive out to the park with a bed full of empty 5-gal and 1-gal jugs, and I will spend a good hour just filling them up and otherwise enjoying the park, which is buried deep within the wilderness.

There are springs closer to my house but I don't feel like I can trust them.

 

Wow that's interesting. Probably have the cleanest water out of all of us. Mine is city tap water. Heavily infused with chlorine, flouride, god knows what else. I feel so lazy now after reading your post.

 

This is the most random thing ever and I love it!

This is one hell of an interesting group of people we have in here.

 

Also on city tap, although the water in our area is actually pretty good. Not a whole lot I can do being a newer development with a house so close I can hear their conversations if they're loud.

 

I do that too occasionally.
There's nothing better than fresh limestone spring water.

I should take a picture sometime of a village near me.
We're at the headwaters of Antietam Creek (of Civil War fame).
Their limestone spring is one of the feeder streams for Antietam.

Anyway, they made kind of a spring house...but without the house.
They made a masonry lined pool and covered it.
There's a short pipe sticking out that flows into an old concrete cattle trough, and thence downstream.

People come from pretty far for that water.
Most times when I drive by, there's someone filling milk jugs direct from the pipe.
(I personally go to a spring further up the mountainside behind me.)
If I remember, I'll take a pic of that as well sometime.

Mind you, the municipal (actually Township) water is quite good.
It comes from small reservoirs in the same mountains.
But water that flows through pipes inevitably takes on odors /tastes.

 

It's funny, a couple generations ago, showers weren't really a thing.
We have a couple low-flow showers (or whatever you call them).
I do the "Navy shower" thing.
Get wet, turn it off, lather up, rinse off.
Saves a lot of water.

I don't have to do it, but it's hard to break an old water-conscious mindset.
I'm making up for Mrs Gritto's Jacuzzi.

 

This is a good idea. I try (and tell my two friends whom I live with) not to use the a/c or heater that much, so in the winter when I wake up and 51 in my room, I usually say fuck it and go without, like this morning. If I do shower, ain't no way I'm shutting it off till I'm done and then dry off quickly.

 

Years ago, I remember riding in a friend's car on State Route 40 and he pointed out a spring that had its own gravel parking area. Even then, there were several cars waiting in line while people were filling up their containers. That must have made some kind of impact on me. I remember thinking, "Why would they want to do that?" I started doing research after that day.
It only makes sense, from the standpoint of healthy water. Doesn't natural spring water spend hundreds of years filtering through the bedrock before it finds its way to the surface?

I built a filtration rig with a ceramic filter if I happen to collect spring water that has odors or is off-color, but I usually don't need it for the water I get from that state park.

 

It’s taco Tuesday

 

Welp, there goes me holding it together till lunch

 

<--- that's what. We've yet to get enough snow this winter for the kids to play in. I'm not complaining about that. I just hate rain.

 

She posted that while I'm eating my ham and cheese roll up. I cried a little.

 

Shut down!

 

@Crow_of_judgement


A raven

 

I was going to say the exact same thing!

 

Nevermore.

 

Well NOW I'm hungry!