Ahhh… the joy of a shower

The other day NEPA (electricity) was shining brightly in all the homes around ours, but not in ours. Something was broken in our NEPA connection. On the one hand this is really no big deal, we are used to it. And we have our backups, we have a small and large generator. The generators work well, but one thing generators cannot do is run anything with a heating element. And this means when we are living off the generators we have no hot water. So the other day with no NEPA, we had not hot water. Oh I was able to wash up with a ‘sink-shower’ but it is not the same as standing under a stream of flowing warm water… ahhh.

Well Mark (our fix-it guy) came the next day and fixed our NEPA connection and sometime during the day as we worked NEPA came on for a little while, and as NEPA flowed the water in our water tanks heated. When I came home, I learned that NEPA had been on and my first thought… you guessed it, a SHOWER. And that is just what I did. Before dinner, before visiting and catching up with everyone about their day, I took a delightful hot shower… suds-ing my dirty, sweat-covered body. Ahhh it felt great, a simple pleasure after a long day.

Back home I rarely, if ever, react joyfully to a shower. But on this trip, little things that I take for granted back home often come to me as a gift, a blessing, a joy. Ahhh the joy of a shower.