T Stands for Mary on the Prairie Makes Distilled Water

with a little bit of help from Himself as Mr. Wizard.

This past month grocery shopping has been a bit of a challenge. Some items on the shelves have been completely bare like bread or still are completely bare like toilet paper. 

At the beginning of this month, we were having a difficult time finding distilled water. Himself needs distilled water for his CPAP machine that helps him to breathe at night. He has Sleep Apnea so without the machine he stops breathing several times during the night.

Now bread I can bake (and I've whined this before) as long as I can find flour and yeast. So I asked Mr. Wizard how difficult would it be to make distilled water. Not difficult at all. You would just need a bucket with a smaller bucket filled with water and placed inside the larger bucket. Tent some plastic wrap over the bucket with the ends inside the bucket. Then you just let the whole thing sit in the sun.

Ok. So Himself cleaned out one of the new blue buckets formerly filled with water to flush the toilet in case of a power outage. I had a plastic, Tupperware canister no longer needed to hold a 5 lb. bag of flour as I got new canisters. So I filled the smaller canister with water and placed it inside the bucket.

The plastic wrap wasn't wide enough to fit over the bucket, but I had a clear, plastic trash bag and used the handle to prop it up. The idea is that the sun will cause a green house effect, the water in the bucket will evaporate, condense on the plastic and roll down the sides into the big bucket where it is distilled water.

Distilled water is water that has been heated and has had minerals removed through the process. Like when you boil a pot of water  with a lid on the pot. The droplets that form on the lid is distilled water.

So with 15 days of rain, the bucket was moved into the sun room where it can get sunlight if the sun every comes out.

My drink reference for the post is water. Water, water everywhere and so far a tablespoon of distilled water to drink. Though why anyone would want to drink distilled water with its flat taste is beyond me.

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