We have two water tanks. One is to hold fresh water for showering, drinking and washing pots and pans. After the water is used, it is contained until we get to a place where we can dump it out and fill up with fresh water. This used water is referred to as gray water in the RV world. Some of the water is diverted into a secondary water tank used to prime the pump to flush the toilet. This used water, after being used, is delicately referred to as black water.
Sunday, we filled up our tanks with water, went to church and after service was over we came out to find we had no water in our secondary tank to use for bathroom duties. I looked under the RV and it looked like it was raining. The secondary tank was doing its impression of a sieve.
Oh what to do, what to do! But of course…head for Wal-Mart, the place of great bargains and all night bathroom facilities. Lord, help us think through this dilemma.
We decided to “improvise” as best we could, get a good nights sleep, walk in the morning and look at the tank to see if we could apply some LocTite to the leaks as soon as the sun came out and everything dried out.
Monday morning was a beautiful day for walking; cool, overcast and the sky was bursting with the magnificence of God. We walked about four and a half miles and it started to thunder and rain…then it cleared. Walked about three miles and it really poured! There was a little town just a few miles ahead of us and so we drove in to see if there was any chance of getting some water inside our RV instead of just all over it. The rain was on and off. We stopped at the Christian Church of Caney and met a very helpful woman named Darlene. She told us where the outside faucet was and, in between showers, we filled up our the primary tank.
Now the way our system is currently working, we can carry water and take a shower but can’t transfer it t the secondary tank to use the bathroom facilities. Looks like there may be porta-potti in our future!
Right now it is storming like crazy outside and we have water everywhere…sort of.
1 comment:
Nick and Lucy - when you said that someone had donated a GMC motorhome to you, I said to myself "Oh, no!"
I had a 1978 Palm Beach that leaked around the windows, generator never worked properly, air bags wouldn't hold air even after being replaced, blew an engine in Chicago and was towed home to Ohio, etc. I understand the "fun" you are having with the GMC!
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