{"id":1501,"date":"2014-01-11T21:06:51","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T05:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.PeaceCrops.net\/CSA\/?p=1501"},"modified":"2014-01-11T21:06:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T05:06:51","slug":"who-knew-our-house-has-jeffries-tubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.PeaceCrops.net\/CSA\/who-knew-our-house-has-jeffries-tubes\/","title":{"rendered":"Who knew our house has Jeffries tubes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"crawlspace\"<\/a>I just got home from a 10-hour plumbing extravaganza. I spent most of the time on my back in the crawlspace beneath the house, cutting \u00a0and glueing together sanitary plumbing. I felt like I was in the Jeffries tubes<\/a> on the USS Enterprise. I’m grateful that I am of relatively small build, and also that I am still fairly slim and limber. There is about 16 inches between the bottom of the joists and the earth below, so there was a lot of commando crawling, flailing wildly for tools, and banging my head into the structure above. Yes, I am sore. I must make sure to do a thorough job, though, as I am certain I will not want to go down there to fix things when I am in my sixties.<\/p>\n

But, I am really close to done, which is exciting. Sometime next week, it will be\u00a0technically<\/em> possible to bathe in our tub. Though, with no supply plumbing yet, you’d have to heat the water on the stove and pour it into the tub with a bucket. Just like Guatemala! I mentioned this to Emily as a joke. She did not take it as a joke; she wants a bath very badly. So maybe we will have a post in the future about bathing in a house that is all exposed structure and tools lying around.<\/p>\n

This afternoon I also\u00a0got to experience one of the benefits of having an off-the-grid home. We had a fierce storm today, and as I was driving back from the cottage, I had to stop for a utility crew that was blocking most of the highway as they worked to remove a large fallen tree that was lying in the roadway, well tangled up in some power lines it had pulled down. I assume my neighbors were without power, but I hadn’t noticed. The worklights and saw and drill and so forth had been going all day without missing a beat.<\/p>\n\n\n