Scalped! / Update on Shower

Got tired of my unruly mop so yesterday afternoon I scalped myself. I'll sure have to remember to wear the hat Frann gave me for sure now though! (At least until the hair grows back out some.) I was also getting tired of the scraggly beard to so.... This morning I lost most of it.

Now anyone that watches this blog should know what I look like now in case they see me in person.  I was in the legion early yesterday at the beckoning of Nick because he was cooking Fajitas there and wanted me to eat. One younger guy was in there and introduced him self and that was before all the scalping. When I went back in there later yesterday the same guy was in there and introduced himself all over again thinking I was someone else. He did ask if he knew me though and I said yes from this morning. He said he thought I must have had a brother or something because I looked familiar. ;)

BTW if any of you ever wonder why my head is always tilted... Well about 20 something years ago I had surgery on my neck and the good surgeon fused part of my neck vertebra together. He screwed up and my head has been leaning every since.

And on another note I'd picked up some water hose quick connects at Harbor freight in Odessa and intended to add them to the pump so I could easily move the pump between the water tank and the shower (All depending on where I needed it at the time.) Unfortunately like a lot of crap gotten from HF they were very lousy quality and didn't work out at all because they leaked like a sieve. Now the pump is dedicated to the shower again because its a lot of work to move it back to the water tank now. At least this time I have it pumping good again so can have my nice warm showers in the afternoon or evening. I waited until 7:00 PM yesterday for a shower to give the water a little time to cool down some. It turned out to be just right. From now on though I'll make sure the shower tank is FULL before taking a shower though. I hate soap in my eyes when the water runs out unexpectedly!

BTW its already 98 degrees here now @ 12:00 PM and is supposed to top out at 103, but it was 105 again here yesterday and I figure it may top that today.

Update on Shower

I just refilled the shower tank to find that I used 7 gallons of water for the last shower. Evidently I fixed the pump setup too good because before I only used 3 1/2 to 4 gallons. 7 is way too much so it looks like I'm going to have to put a restrictor of some kind in the suction side to slow it down. I'm still planning to convert the old trailer I got to build a storage out of in to a shower / dressing room and possibly add a commode to try and get one of the septic systems put in. Just don't know when I'll get around to that? If I get that done then it will probably be added on to... to the east with a small cabin so the facilities will be connected to the cabin.  It will have a gravity feed shower with the gray water going to water plants and the commode will be piped to the septic system. That will mainly be used for guests only because the It'll Du does fine for me.