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I have lived for more than 30 years as a Wilderness Dweller. Most of that time was in cabins I built myself far from the nearest road, high in the mountains of British Columbia, Canada. My "retirement" home is accessible by a bush road but still far from neighbours. I live off the grid, and operate this blog by solar-powered satellite internet.

Another new water supply

It has become too difficult to get through the swamp to reach the creek.  But now that the pond is beginning to open up, I can use the pump.

pump by the pond at Ginty CreekOvernight frosts refreeze the pond’s surface and also the water in the pipe, so I must wait until afternoon before I can draw water.  By then, if the sun is shining, the pipe water is quite warm.  After that has gone through, however, it is pretty chilly!

The pond’s thaw is timely: I will be having a visitor next week and he has no sleeping bag.  I had to wash the blankets that have been covering the coolers and potatoes all winter.  They are too big to take to the church washing machine.  A handy sink is a recycled bathtub taken from a trailer.  It needs to lie at an angle as the plug leaks.  It is not very elegant, but it works.  I haul my bathwater to the house in milk jugs.

washing blankets at Ginty Creek

The other day I walked past the rhubarb patch where I had scattered the ashes to melt the snow, and the first leaf buds were showing.

rhubarb buds at Ginty Creek