PRACTICAL PARSIMONY: Water Situation Now

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Water Situation Now

First of all, if you have donated on gofundme at the right of this post about my water dilemma, I cannot get back into the site. Their tech support gave me hours of help that did not help. Maybe Saturday, I will be up to talking/emailing back and forth. This sort of thing drains me and eventually makes me furious which drains me more.

I do appreciate each donation. Here is how it stands.

$440 from gofundme
$ 20 from paypal
$150 promise from a church
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$610 total donations

$2300 needed
-$ 610 have
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$1690 still need!

Tomorrow, I will go back to the church that three weeks ago told me that
they would "see what they could do." It is almost like this is a minor
inconvenience to them.

I do thank those who donated, those who put it on their blog and anyone
else who wants to put on a blog. I feel so discouraged right now. I have no
money for a Laundromat trip that I need right now. Everything I have is
dirty. Don't even suggest I haul water and heat it and wash in a bucket. I
am hurting, cold, and dirty. Getting clothes to my washing machine is
painful and slow and going to a Laundromat would be painful. And, I am
dirty. No platitudes!

Oh, and I am quite sure I have a bad wheel bearing. I have heard them go
bad before...grrr. Tomorrow, I will tell you about the F bombs I had to
endure the other day. People are obviously in the Christmas mood!

12 comments:

Elephant's ChildNovember 20, 2014 at 2:58 AM
Good luck. And I have my fingers and toes crossed that the church can come up with something. Something good.
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longtime wifeNovember 20, 2014 at 6:16 AM
Linda I don't know your situation but do you have family there?
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Sue FrelickNovember 20, 2014 at 8:36 AM
Thanks for the update, Linda. I've been wondering how your situation is going. Sounds like you've been thinking outside the box. Good for you. Is there a local YWCA were you can grab a shower? I always feel better after a good soak.
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AnonymousNovember 20, 2014 at 11:30 AM
I'm really not sure what to say to make it better :-/ I'm sure you've heard enough sorry's & already explored all avenues to fix the issue. Just know I'm thinking of you.
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SnowbrushNovember 20, 2014 at 12:04 PM
"This sort of thing drains me and eventually makes me furious which drains me more."

I know EXACTLY what you mean. I am becoming less and less willing to hold my tongue when a website doesn't work, it takes forever to get a real person at the call center, and when I do get a real person, I get transferred three times and before being hung-up on. This happened to me yesterday while trying to buy Medicare drug coverage. Then, I tried to sign Peggy up for Obamacare care, and their dumbass website still isn't working, and their phone support is helpless to fix it. Peggy couldn't get Obamacare this year because of website failures, and now she isn't able to get it for next year either. Or rather, I'm not able to get it for her. One thing that she has that you don't, is me to do such things, and I'm really good at them, but I can't overcome complete imbecility on the part of the people on the other end.
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Okay, hoping the annoyances have gone away.

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The Cast

Fancy is my favorite hen. She is one of the three youngest hens I adopted. Because she is so gentle and friendly, she may be the one I rescued when she was being pecked to death after she could no longer stand. She got to live in the house in a box. Sometimes, I let her sit in my lap while she was convalescing. Now, she comes to sit in the swing with me, cuddling up to my body like a cat or dog. She died in February 2012.

Fancy follows me begging, complaining, needing me to do for her. She talks to me in various voices. She allows me to pick her up and carry her. When she became an adult, her head was a darker red and her body was light brown. Around her neck were tips of black feathers. It appeared she had a necklace of jet around her neck. When I showed this characteristic to a friend, he said, "Oh, you have fancy chickens and plain chickens."

Chessie has a broken toe. I broke it! She had a habit of jumping really high and almost sticking. A raccoon ate her in October 2009.

Thelma is the blonde. She is also the largest hen and the alpha hen. I suspect the gigantic eggs are from her. She often squats and presents herself to me. She is top hen, but I suspect she knows she had better be deferent to top feeder of the flock--me.

Louise is the auburn-feathered hen. She looks like the true Rhode Island Reds in pictures. She is almost as large as Thelma. Some days I suspect she is trying to be top chicken. When I got Pepper, I found out Louise is the Alpha hen.

Pepper came here from the same home as the first four. We were discussing putting red pepper on their food, wondering if it really would increase egg production. Pepper is the only name we agreed on. She is terrorized each day by Louise. Even after the worst was over, she was and is still filled with terror and very wary.

Linda is owned by four hens. They allow her to fetch for them. She loves them dearly, so she allows them to boss her around. Linda comes out in the rain to perform chores for them and make sure they have food and water. She begs scraps from all sorts of places to make sure they have fresh fruits and vegetables.

Parsimony is not a vegetable

Parsimony is extreme care in spending money. Stick around and learn about my random thoughts on accomplishing goals economically--dumpster diving aka safari, gleaning, do-it-yourself, sewing tips, recipes, and whatever is happening in my life.

Okay so maybe "parsimony" is not your thing. How about thrift, frugality or just plain saving money? I try not to go the tightwad route as that seems to imply others will suffer from my habits.

Some of my not-spending habits have very much been a part of my lifelong habits. Other habits are newly acquired and are an extension of my lifelong not-spending habits.

I am very imaginative when it comes to substituting or making instead of buying. I will tell you about making a heater for the chickens' water. Not one dime was spent since I had everything I needed right in my basement.

Practicality must rear its head alongside parsimony. For example, I will use the dryer in bad weather or because of allergies in the spring. But, I will not wash clothes in a tub as long as I have a washing machine or can find one.

You may hear more about my four Rhode Island Red hens than you care to hear. They lay delicious brown eggs.

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Thursday, November 20, 2014

Water Situation Now

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