Always Check Your Bucket....



Here, we use a lot of buckets.  Almost everybody has one tap (almost always outside) and the co-op pump from the natural spring near the river runs from about 10am until 6pm, so you have to get what you need during those hours.  We keep two large drums filled and covered to use for bathing/washing/etc.  I keep a separate small bucket in the kitchen of water to use for cooking that has a good lid.  Finally, we have the big 5 gallon bottles of drinking water.

 

Naturally, moving water from one place to another or washing things when there are not taps/sinks everywhere means lots of buckets.  Not only do you need a big drum of water for toilet-flushing water, but also a bucket to dip it out with.  Water for washing/mopping/etc. is moved in buckets.  Okay, you are convinced, lots of buckets.

 

We are working on different connections/setups to make things easier for us.  The interior tubes/drains have been in place since the floor was poured.  But right now, we are doing things the way everyone else does it around here.  But, one piece of advice, always check your bucket!  I heard a noise when I walked up and I was prepared for it to be my worst nightmare... "a legless lizard."  Thank goodness, it was just this little green guy.  Iguanas like to eat lots of things that I wouldn't mind disappearing, so I let him loose in my lime tree.