Our friends and family joke that we are camping or glamping in our home because we live off-grid and still don’t have running water in the house. (For those of you who have never heard the word glamping before its shorthand for glamorous camping or luxury camping.) So obviously they are also very curious as to how I wash the dishes.
Well
let me tell you...there is nothing! glamorous or luxurious when it’s time to do
the dishes.
Washing
dishes normally should be very easy – fill the dishwasher, put in the soap,
lock the door, turn the knob and/or press buttons, and the machine
automatically cleans the dishes.
However, in our home, washing dishes takes on a whole new meaning. Water has to be hauled in the house, and boiled
on the stove. The boiling water is then
put into two plastic bins, with a little squirt of soap in the wash bin. What do I mean by wash bin? Well we don’t have a sink yet, so the dishes
get washed on the dining room table in two bins – wash bin and rinse bin – then
placed into the drying rack. Then
everything has to be put away. Doing
this several times a day gets a bit old, but it will just make me appreciate an
actual working sink, and do I dare to even dream - a dishwasher someday.
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