Even though Clif and I are retired, we follow a work-week schedule because our eldest daughter Dee, who lives with us, has a traditional forty-hour a-week job. We arrange our schedule to match hers so that we can eat together and go to the movies on Saturday and Sunday. Therefore, after a free and easy weekend, Monday always comes with a bit of a thud
This Monday’s thud hit us a little harder. We woke up to find that our hot water heater had stopped working. No hot water for showers or for doing dishes. No hot water period.
It could be worse, and indeed it has been. We still have cold water, and we can flush our toilets. (Trust me, this is no small thing.) However, not having water has thrown a bit of crimp into our usual routine.
Therefore, this week’s post is shorter than usual as my husband and I tend to this and that. But hot water or not, the gardens are thriving, and a couple of pictures of green and growing plants seems like a good place to end.
Notes From the Hinterland 
Sorry to hear about the hot water trouble! I hope it’s sorted out soon.
Isn’t it good that the garden doesn’t need hot water? 😊
After looking at your fern images, I have got a small fern for my balcony.🪴
Oh, nice that you have a fern on your balcony.
Hope your hot water is restored soon.
Many thanks! It is restored.
Sorry about the water heater. Ours died a few years back and I was shocked at what it cost us in labor to replace. Hope you’re friends with a plumber. 😉
I’m jealous of your ferns and lupine. We’re too sunny for ferns and every time I try to grow lupine the woodchucks nibble it right down to the ground.
Thanks, Rivergirl! But no lupine here. Not enough sun. I wonder what reminded you of it.
Your second photo, of the ferns. The leaves behind the rocks look just like lupine.
No hot water is not fun. There are instant-on hot water heaters, some are propane, some are electric. The electric ones sound interesting.
Your gardens look beautiful, Laurie!
Snafus are so not fun. After our trip, we were faced with low water pressure, the solution at least was simple, but still not cheap! Hope yours is an easy fix. Your gardens look very lush!
Not fun at all! But we are making do, as one does. 😉 yes, the gardens are looking very lush. A great way to start the season. I hope yours are too.
It’s always those things you don’t expect that make us deviate from our routines and annoy us to no end!
So true! Life is like that.
Hope everything is up and running soon 🙂
Thanks, June!
I hope the situation is corrected pronto.
Thanks! So do I.
Oh dear! As you know, I am no stranger to domestic troubles, so I feel for you. I also cross my fingers that it is a simple fix. Best of luck.
Thanks, Quercus! Getting someone to come take a look at the water heater is the first hurdle.
🙂 One small job to a tradesman but one big job if you have no water . . .
You bet!
🙂
Trust you have a friendly and prompt plumber not charging an arm-and-a-leg close by . . . the greenery looks happy!
Fingers crossed!
After our wedding, my husband and I borrowed a friend’s beach cottage for a brief honeymoon (we took a longer one later). When we got there, the gas was out. No stove, no hot water for showers etc. We managed, with a coffeemaker and an electric skillet and chilly showers. It’s kind of a fun memory–our first weekend of marriage, and we made do! (Yesterday would have been our 30th anniversary, so I savor those sweet memories.)
Yes, a very sweet memory!
I hope that the hot water is a solvable problem. It is one of those things that you take for granted until you don’t have it.
Isn’t that the truth! It’s only been one day and it feels much longer.
No hot water makes a person sad. Also cold. I hope you are able to get a new one soon.
What is the plant in the last photo, not the ferns, but the other plant, with longish rounded leaf/petals in a circle?
Not much fun! The plant with the white flowers is sweet woodruff. Does well in my shady garden.
Ever since my sailing days, I’ve kept a solar shower bag like the ones used on boats. It worked great at the cabin in the hill country when the wood stove wasn’t being used to heat water, and I keep one now for times when, for example, hurricanes take out the power for days and days. I hope you don’t have to resort to such, and get things fixed up quickly, but solar showers are an option — and kind of fun!
When you live on the edge of the woods, there aren’t many sunny spots for a solar shower. 😉 Sponge baths it will be until the problem is fixed.
Dish water can be heated up other ways, showers not so much. Here’s hoping Tuesday brings you a plan for hot water. I actually replaced my Rinnai on demand hot water last year. Costs can give you indigestion, but let’s face it, we can’t get along without hot water.
So true! Hot water is an essential. I think it might be a while.
May you get it back soon
Fingers and toes crossed!
I do hope you get hot water soon. Such a pain to not have it!
Yup, a real pain!
Beautiful garden! And so artistically presented. I hope hot water returns soon. And yes, like you I do appreciate running water, even if we have to heat it up to wash dishes!
Oh, thanks so much! Being able to flush the toilets is a decided plus. 😉
I do hope you get your hot water fixed soon. Last time we lost ours I was midway through washing my hair in the shower
What a time for you to lose hot water! Still no hot water. I think it might be a while.
I like how you’ve rearranged your schedules to coincide with your daughter’s.
Oh goodness…I do hope the hot water situation has been handled. We’re on a well, so when we lose power, we lose water, and that happens several times a year. It’s never fun.
I love that your schedules are all lined up. What a lovely decision to make 🙂
We now have hot water. Yay! We have a well, too, so we know from sad experience what happens when the power goes out.
Since our schedules are so flexible, it seemed only fitting to adapt to hers.
I hope your hot water is back on again, Laurie. It’s easy to forget how much we rely on these services / appliances until something goes wrong. Fingers crossed it’s all sorted now!
We get so used to having hot water in the taps that its absence is hard. I hope it gets sorted quickly. I find I still think in terms of the working week too!
The hot water is back! Thank goodness. Meant to mention in my blog, but I forgot. 😉
Your garden is lovely and so green. I hope the situation with the hot water heater is solved. I understand that it has to be challenging.
I hope your hot water and your routines are quickly restored Laurie 🙏 and the ferns in your garden look so beautiful 💚🌿 xxx
Only went a couple of days without hot water! Thank goodness. As far as the garden goes…I do love ferns.
Your garden looks great. Hope you get y9ur water back soon.
Many thanks! The hot water is back. All is good.
Hope the hot water sitch has resolved itself … glad you were able to enjoy the garden despite the hitch. I guess the plants wouldn’t miss the hot water!
I hope you got your hot water situation resolved quickly and without fanfare. Your garden is looking lush and refreshed.