This is great. We live in the country in a hundred year old farm house and we’re always complaining about something. But we should be thankful that we do have running water unlike the original occupants of this home.
I grew up on an old, old family farm where running water was not an original part of the home. Wells were installed when my grandparents bought it and in the drought of a summer, we’d have to haul water from town just to keep it going. Farm-living ain’t no joke!
We are such spoiled brats….whining when the dishwasher is broken!
Reading and thinking about the hardships of history has a jolting effect on my perspective.
now that i live rural with my folks, we aren’t on city water, so it’s well and septic. well, guess what? with all our fine modern advancements, the well ain’t worth a plug nickel if the electricity goes out. so we have to fill the bathtub up with water when bad storms come so we can flush if the power goes out.
Shoot. In the midst of my piles and piles of dishes and laundry, I so quickly forget that it could be sooooo much tougher.
This is great. We live in the country in a hundred year old farm house and we’re always complaining about something. But we should be thankful that we do have running water unlike the original occupants of this home.
I grew up on an old, old family farm where running water was not an original part of the home. Wells were installed when my grandparents bought it and in the drought of a summer, we’d have to haul water from town just to keep it going. Farm-living ain’t no joke!
We are such spoiled brats….whining when the dishwasher is broken!
Reading and thinking about the hardships of history has a jolting effect on my perspective.
Let’s go back to the good ol’ days!
I don’t even have hot and cold running water now. But anything is an improvement over carrying it from a pump in the dead of winter!
I meant I don’t have hot running water, I do have cold.
and we call life in days of old, “simpler times”
simpler, cuz there was less stuff to break!
now that i live rural with my folks, we aren’t on city water, so it’s well and septic. well, guess what? with all our fine modern advancements, the well ain’t worth a plug nickel if the electricity goes out. so we have to fill the bathtub up with water when bad storms come so we can flush if the power goes out.
but, praise God, no outhouse! :)