Winter Sucks.

I'm so tired. It has been SO stinking cold here this week. Our pump froze up last night and we had no water today. I couldn't take a shower, so I stayed home and worked from here. I spent a good part of the day getting water from the creek, heating it on the stove and hauling it to the barn for the horses and goats, as well as trying to get the water running again.
After Tosh got home tonight, we bundled up and trudged down through the snow to see if we could figure it out. It was dark and cold, but we discovered that there wasn't any insulation on the pipe right at the well. We used a torch and a space heater and somehow managed to thaw it enough to get it running.
We have a bleach injection system on our tank to kill the sulphur in our well water. It had been running when the pump wasn't, so when Tosh jumped in the shower afterwards, he got an immediate and full shot of bleach in his face. It burned his eyes and skin badly and we had to pour bottled water over him. It was awful. The poor guy is working two jobs...and he has to come home to that. I'm so sick of the mud...and the snow...and the trees falling down...and this damnable COLD.