Whatever You Want Honey

Yes. I can be full of useless facts that seemly amount to nothing when taken in, but provide to be useful when the situation warrants it.

Problem:
The hot water lasts for 4 minutes in the morning.

Solution:
Alternate taking showers with my wife every other day. (Thank goodness for deodorant and baby powder [for me not her, she smells like wildflowers all the time ]). On the days I take a shower, I give my son a shower before I get mine. Otherwise, this would be the attitude I would get.

Let me explain. We have no water heater. We live in an old building with the hot water supplied through the furnace’s boiler. When the weather is hot, the furnace tends to not kick on. So, it needs to be manually switched on. It heats for about 30 minutes which provides about 4 minutes of hot water. When it is cold outside (50 degrees or below) the water stays nice and hot for hours (not really, but you get the point).

Problem:
It rains for 64 hours straight and the dog smells, well… like a wet dog.

Solution:
Dog shampoo works in the rain too. It just doesn’t come out as easy unless you stand directly under the broken downspout.

The dog has been stinking for a while and the fact that we only have a stand up shower makes it difficult to bathe the dog properly. I didn’t actually bathe her outside though. Although, in theory, you could. Nor do I have a broken downspout. I took her to my mom’s house and gave her a good scrub down there. She smells much better!

Problem:
I just found out that our tap water is not as good as it could be.

Solution:
Add a pinch of sea salt to 1 gallon of drinking water to add electrolytes and make the water work better in your body.

I just read somewhere that adding a pinch of Sea Salt turns your water from plain old water into a veritable electrolyte factory. Not as salty as a Sports Drink. Actually, I couldn’t taste the salt at all. Aside from that, it slightly improved the taste of the water. It made it taste more like… water. I know, that sounds like a Doofus remark, but really, it didn’t have the “from the spigot” taste to it. Hho’da thunk?

- D