John F Dean

At 11:00 AM my water was back to normal.   That means our water district had a leak for 2 weeks.   I have not checked out the condition of the township road. After 2 weeks of running water, it has got to be interesting.  Anyway, it’s laundry day today.

Permies is normally as wild of a site I get on. I even dropped my membership to Chess.com.   I will go to You Tube for advice on repairs. But those are rare.

The answer isn’t cistern.  In Illinois they can’t be used for potable water.

We are on a rural water line.  On Thanksgiving evening our water volume dropped significantly. I left a message with the water department. They promptly returned my call on Monday morning.  Of course they assured me the problem was on my side of the meter.  Interesting, with all my faucets shut off,  the meter wasn’t moving.  I called a plumber who showed  up 12/5.   He said the problem was on their side of the meter and charged me $95.00.  They replaced the meter, and I still had next to no water. The plumber showed up today , determined next to no water was coming through the meter. He called the water department.  They showed up. They weren’t sure where the problem was.  My plumber suggested that  it might have something to do with the pond that was forming across the township road. My plumber charged me another $130.00.  It cost me  $ 225.00 to hire a representative the water department would listen to.  Even then, they weren’t too eager.

Hi Samantha,

I can see where an old small sweater could be put to good use.

When I was much younger, I drove down from my homestead  to Minneapolis to see a friend.  The one factor that has stuck with me is the 24 hour a day noise.  Even at 1:00 AM the steady noise was still there.

Trick question.  So, the Permi answer is “It depends”.  In northernMinnesota, I used what was called Choppers. Leather mittens with a removable liner.  The liner I usually used was gloved.

Here is southern Illinois I use the same heavy work glove that I use in the summer. When the temp drops into the teens, I switch to leather work glove with a faux fur lining

Hi Maria,

Welcome to Permies.

This is an interesting video.  I suspect much has to do with one’s definition of “warm”.  In Northern Minnesota I was invited to a coworkers house. He always bragged about about how warm his house was…even at 40 below.  The temp inside his house was 55f.  

I am not critizing his definition, but his definition and mine were substantially different.

Sorta like Pearl, I keep several pint jars of various dehydrated vegetables near my kitchen stove.  The practice has allowed me to quickly save ay number of dishes.

And yes, I have been successful in freezing celery.