Comments on: Dry Monday

By: erik

erik — Tue, 08 May 2007 16:27:55 +0000

So let me get this straight… You took my dear old octogenarian grandmother, your mother, out ten miles into the middle of no where and, not only deprived her of common amenities like a bathroom or running water, but put her to work cutting and stacking brush for three days!?!!?

You’d better call her on Mother’s Day this Sunday…

I still get visitors finding my blog entry about that visit when searching for “four wheelers in the woods” pictures.

By: Uncle Neil

Uncle Neil — Tue, 08 May 2007 16:01:08 +0000

When your grandmother flew into Thunder Bay, Ontario to visit Barb and I last year she adapted well. Joyce managed three days without running water, bathroom facilities, or a change of clothing 10 miles in the bush. We would not have brought her there except we needed her to cut and stack a lot of hazel brush. No I mean if it weren’t a perfectly comfortable ordinary way to live every day. I have seen where people who are not used to it do need to learn how to take care of themselves to stay clean, comfortable, and not waste resources . Something more interesting to me in today’s world is that so few people experience seeing not one other human for significant periods of time.

By: sgazzetti

sgazzetti — Tue, 08 May 2007 09:24:03 +0000

What a cool idea. One thing to enjoy about those little inconveniences that occur with a power cut or water shut-off is how much more you do appreciate it when it does come back.

Until last summer we had an internet provider whose service would go out often enough that you’d be tempted to say “all the time”. It’s scary, and a bit embarrassing, to realize how much we take that “always available” luxury for granted, too. But with running water that’s safe to drink, we don’t even consider what luxury we wallow in.