geowench

Well it happened, albeit differently than I expected. The pipes have not frozen, but the sensor on the well pump froze. E managed to get it thawed and working twice yesterday, but it's well and truly frozen now and so we are without running water until things warm up - probably another 2 days. The only truly bad part of this is the toilets. I'm going to buy us a camping or composting toilet to keep in the garage, so we don't have to live with toilets we can't flush in the future.

I think I deserve a bloody medal for not saying I TOLD YOU SO for all the times I asked E about 1) insulating the pump and 2) running electricity out to the wellhouse. I will insist this summer, at least about the electricity.

I ALSO deserve a medal for taking my walks everyday except yesterday in this bloody godawful weather. And I would have done it yesterday but E started a fire at like 9 in the morning, which meant we couldn't leave it unattended. It was a balmy 3F for today's walk. Hard to tell how much it's actually snowed, some places it's only a dusting, other places there are knee high drifts. I'm guessing a couple of inches, but can't really say.