Water

This country has wonderful water facilities in most places. Even though the water varies from location to location, it is still typically sanitized, clean, fresh water.

We are on Ocracoke. The water public water here has always had a....different scent. We have chosen over the years to purchase battled water for coffee because it tastes better; but we have cooked in Ocarocke's public water.

Not so this trip and the second week last summer when we stayed in this house. The public utilities here on Ocracoke reached maximum capacity some years ago. This means that all new houses must get their water from some other source. Some house have water shipped in and stored in tanks. The owners of this house chose to have non-potable water.

Last summer we got used to it because the house is so spacious and nice. This trip has pretty much been the same except when I opened the dishwasher the first time we wased dishes, it all smelled like fish. Subsequently, the dishwasher broke.

Then one morning Gravity came up and asked if Ian's and my showers smelled like fish. "No, It just had the usual briny smell and soapy feel." But the day before yesterday and yesterday, my shower has had the fish smell. Esh's shower is either still okay or he has lost his sense of smell.

Last night, when doing a load of laundry, I thought I would go down and check on it in the washer. the water in the washing machine was brownish! Yuk. But....our clothes are coming out cleaner! The gray layer that used to be permanently at the bottom of Esh's socks is disappearing......Wonders never cease!