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Thursday, May 2, 2013

Buckets

And now, a guest blog, from Mark:

Plastic buckets have become an important part of our lives. 

We wash clothes in buckets.  One bucket is for the washing and two more are for the double rinsing.  In the dry season we hang the clothes out to dry, where they are immediately covered with dust, and then dry quickly.  In the rainy season we hang clothes out to dry, the daily rains come, and we rush around to bring the clothes inside where we find places to hang them.  In a couple of days they are still wet, so we wear them anyway.

We bathe from a bucket.  A little hot water from the stove mixed with the cold natural water makes a refreshing bucket of bathwater.

We store water in buckets.  Fortunately, we are among the lucky ones who have water from an indoor tap.  Unfortunately, frequently the water to our tap in the house is turned off so we use the water stored in our buckets.

We purify water in buckets.  A chemical purifying process is taking place in our buckets right now, making our water safe to drink.

We appreciate and use our ten plastic buckets every day.

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