Enjoy a relaxing bath here at your home away from home. Here you can enjoy the "All Natural" properties of Iron (thus the reddish-brown hue) and Sulfur for their cleansing properties. They will wisk your mind away to thoughts of spewing geysers at Yellowstone National Park. That distinct, oh so very distinct smell....It permiates your senses.
Seriously, it's worse than taking a shower or bath out of a garden hose!!!
This is the result of running out of chlorine. We are the proud owners of a pond and our own water treatment tank in our basement! We are in charge of cleaning our own water. Least to say, we buy drinking water, because if our chlorine gets low or our filters get full, this is happens until we remedy the situation! The water here turns everything orange (ie-see bathtub:). The water out here in Ohio is less then satitisfying! In our area of Southington, the ground is impossible for a well (or so they think:), so everyone has a pond, and yes, that's what you drink out of! I think I have mentioned this in the past. It's not my favorite part of living in a rural area here, about 10 miles away from city water. That's rural, baby!!!
We are use to the water situation, and no one is low on their iron! Which is really impotant for Shy and I:) She would kill me for that! All in all I feel like a terrific mom when I put my sweat-stinky boys in the bath so that they can come out smelling like a geyser! I told Lance it's just switching one bad smell for the other! It's not very often that bad, but the winter has been a lot worse than the summer-it's freezes over and gets anaerobic.
Least to say we use a lot of deliciously smelling products to lather ourselves and our laundry in!!!
Bathtime!!! Just plug your nose and don't expect that fresh feeling:)
5 comments:
oh my gosh, that is disgusting! How about diaper wipes instead? :)
I can't even think of words to describe your situation. I am so sorry you are getting your iron by osmosis. Ick. How do you remedy the situation? Good luck. I love and miss you.
It's pretty disgusting! Even when it's good thee is always an orange tint to the water! It's not that bad very often. I think we have just gotten us to it, which is ven worse!!! When we were first here, we hadn't set up the water system. Everytime you would shower it was revolting! You would plug your nose the sulfur was so strong and there were chunks of organi material coming out! Now we feel lucky that it's just brown every now and then and doesn't stink as bad! Oh we are blessed...
Lori, your are the modern day pioneers...well not exactly...I don't recall them having running water or central heating etc. but that is some pioneerish stuff. Think about what cool stories your kids will have to tell their children, instead of saying they walked 3 miles to school uphill both ways they will be able to say they got to shower in a natural spring and took their supplements through their skin. I love it. You all look beautiful and healthy it must be like magic waterish stuff.
Josh said, "Did he poop in the tub?" At least all of your pics of the kids in the tub will be modest. They can just hide under the water. If we ever make it out to visit we will pack our own shower. ;)
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