Water Hours and clean laundry

We are on water hours. 

This means, we are unable to make enough potable water to maintain a certain percentage on the ship.

We have set shower hours and are not able to do our own laundry. We have to send it down to the ship's laundry service. 

During the RAS, we took on water and today, the best gift occurred. I got to do my own laundry.

The smell of the fabric softener... clean sheets... it does not take much to brighten up this sailor's day.