Keeping Clean

It's been a week of living in the woods. Without a well washing can be tricky. We have a dish/hand washing station outside at a table. A jug with a tap, hand soap and dish soap, wash bin and drying rack. We heat the water on the stove for dishes or a washcloth bath. We get water out of the rain barrel for this. 

We have a solar shower for after dark showers. The water is hardly warm but it's been in the high 80s with 70% humidity. It's very cold so you have to soap down and rinse fast. 

I have only washed my hair once a week and I do this at the truck stop. It's $8.00 for a private shower. Totally worth it.

We haul in water from town for drinking and coffee/ tea. We also have a Berkey water filter. (Never know if we have to haul water from river.)

Finally, we drive 7mins north to a lake and jump in to rinse sweat off mid day.