The city, while working on the light rail, shut down our water for over 12 hours this weekend. This seems to happen every 3-4 months. We got a vague doorhanger earlier in the week that said “Your water will be shut off SATURDAY 10 p.m.-12 noon. We didn’t know which 10 p.m. or which noon it was talking about, so we took pains to not be home or use water during those times on Saturday. We left the house by 8 a.m. that day anyway. It didn’t get turned off in the evening or early that morning, so we thought maybe they did their work from 7-noon and were done with it.

However, they were not done with it.

In fact, they shut off the water from 10:30 p.m. to almost 4 p.m. today, which is way too long when we are hosting church in the morning. Especially when the toilets don’t flush.

So, although we haven’t been camping in a while, it sure feels like we have been.