Adventures in Dishwashing

Early this morning, I discovered that I had no water. I did not want to look at the dirty dishes from last night's dinner and I had no way to flush the toilet. Not the kind of day anyone wants to wake up to. I won't bore you with the details of what happened to the water.

I don't know how many of you remember what it was like when you didn't have running water. Thankfully I did and knew what to do.

I took a medium sized bucket, one that was not too heavy for me to carry. I walked next door to my neighbor's yard and turned on the hose and filled the bucket. Then I brought it back to the house and dumped part of the water down the toilet. The rest of it I used to get the dishes washed.

I took a pot, dipped it into the bucket of water and set it on the stove to heat. When it was hot, I dumped it into the sink with the plug in place to stop the water from getting out. I added my dishes to it and some dishwashing liquid and when I finished washing the dishes, I set them in the other side of the sink and waited until some more water was hot and then poured it over all of the dishes at once. Then I moved them to the strainer to air dry.

It seemed like a daunting task at first with all of the dishes piled up, but once I got started, it was over with quickly and now I have a clean kitchen again!

Have a stress free and relaxing day!