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AS LONG AS YOU HAVE COLD WATER AND A STOVE, YOU CAN HAVE HOT WATER TO WASH WITH. WHEN MY ELECTRIC WATER HEATER BLEW, THE WATER HAD TO BE CUT OFF ENTIRELY FOR SEVERAL DAYS UNTIL THE HEATER COULD BE REPLACED AND I HAD TO SHOWER IN SOMEONE ELSE'S APARTMENT AND HEAT WATER ON THE STOVE TO WASH. AND YET, HERE I AM TO TELL THE TALE. I AM GLAD YOU HAVE HOT WATER AGAIN.
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When I was living "off-grid" for 20 years, we had a big old claw-foot cast iron tub set up outside about 20 feet from the well. I would fill the tub from the well and light a fire under it.....The kids would go first.We would fill buckets of hot water from the tub to shampoo and wash ourselves outside the tub, then get in the very deep, hot water and soak. The kids got to splash and play to their heart's content.I always took the last turn....while Dad was reading the kid's a bed-time story.........I would slide into that tub with a huge sigh and look up at the stars....then sprint back to the house and into bed with my randy man.
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First the Beatles EIGHT DAYS A WEEK LYRICS Ooh I need your love babe, Guess you know it's true. Hope you need my love babe, Just like I need you. Hold me, love me, hold me, love me. Ain't got nothin' but love babe, Eight days a week. Love you ev'ry day girl, Always on my mind. One thing I can say girl, Love you all the time. Hold me, love me, hold me, love me. Ain't got nothin' but love babe, Eight days a week. NOW EARTHY'S ONE DAY A WEEK SECRET ROMANCE TUB SONG (same melody) Oh I need your TUB babe, Guess you know it's true Hope you pass me the Soap babe For I'll Going to church with you Hold me, then Scrub me, n' pass that face cloth too Wash my back right down to my crack For I brought some bubble bath for you! One day a week, I SCRUB YOU one day a week, I get to see you bare One think I can say girl I brought you a large ring After the tub drains girl Cause A-jax is your thing Scold me, hold me Now im all so clean six days of Natures dirt Is not our favorite thing And only one Lie girl In the form of soap Waters gettin too cold girl Next time don't just mope FOR WE AIN'T GOT NOTHING ON BATHS BABE, JUST ONE SCANT SATERDAY HOUR PER WEEK! OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
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Oh Earthy your post brings back many memories of my youth. I too come from a family of 8. We had a wood burning stove and a galvanized vat was placed on the stove and filled with water to heat up for our Saturday night bath. I recall the youngest one got to bathe first and then the next youngest until us youngens were all bathed and then my mother and father would bathe last. Each time we would add hot water from the vat on top of the stove or the reservoir in the stove. In the afternoon I always washed my hair from the water collected in the rain barrel. We used vinegar to make sure we got all of the soap out and plus like you say it made our shiny. Good thing the vinegar smell dissipated. I had long hair and when I got old enough to do my own hair I would wrap my hair in rags to make curls. They would take a day to dry. Our water came from a well so it was usually my job to haul the water in with the ten gallon buckets. I also had to chop the wood to stoke the fire. We also used coal as well. Periodically the water is turned off in my building usually when somebody is doing renovations. But it is at the most about 4 hours. I can live with that.
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First the Beatles EIGHT DAYS A WEEK LYRICS Ooh I need your love babe, Guess you know it's true. Hope you need my love babe, Just like I need you. Hold me, love me, hold me, love me. Ain't got nothin' but love babe, Eight days a week. Love you ev'ry day girl, Always on my mind. One thing I can say girl, Love you all the time. Hold me, love me, hold me, love me. Ain't got nothin' but love babe, Eight days a week. NOW EARTHY'S ONE DAY A WEEK SECRET ROMANCE TUB SONG (same melody) Oh I need your TUB babe, Guess you know it's true Hope you pass me the Soap babe For I'll Going to church with you Hold me, then Scrub me, n' pass that face cloth too Wash my back right down to my crack For I brought some bubble bath for you! One day a week, I SCRUB YOU one day a week, I get to see you bare One think I can say girl I brought you a large ring After the tub drains girl Cause A-jax is your thing Scold me, hold me Now im all so clean six days of Natures dirt Is not our favorite thing And only one Lie girl In the form of soap Waters gettin too cold girl Next time don't just mope FOR WE AIN'T GOT NOTHING ON BATHS BABE, JUST ONE SCANT SATERDAY HOUR PER WEEK! OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
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OMG that takes me back to the days when I shared a bath in an outside room with my girl friend 2 houses down, the copper would be boiled once a week and her father would carry the hot water to put in the bath. The same water was then only topped up and shared for the whole family. To have a bath then was luxury, my grandfather's house had a small water heater where you had to turn on the cold water press the button on the system and shower really really quickly before the water got too hot and you had to turn the heater off, if you didn't do it quickly you would need to finish off with only cold water.
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