Water

When you're thirsty where do you go for a nice cold drink of H2O? The tap--either naked or filtered? A bottle of water from the grocery store? An outlet on your refrigerator filter? So many choices . . . permit me an opportunity to offer a little perspective here. We have many choices as well, but which would you choose????? The cistern (home to oh so much more than just water--i.e. frogs, spiders, cockroaches and their poop); the faucet (oh, piped in from the cistern and we've just layed that one out nicely); from a jerry can straight from the bore hole (not a bad option, but if you get to the bore hole and there is a line, it can be pretty murky); from our New Hope community water tower (treated and then collected in jerry cans and delivered to our door for a nominal fee) or from our own water filter which is where we pour the water from the water tower and filter it a final time.

The beloved jerry can pictured here.

We have not had much govt power lately and that is the power we need (generator is not strong enough) to pump water from our underground well to our community water tower where we collect it into jerry cans. In addition, because we have not had water tower water, but bore hole water, our home filter has become clogged with the murky sediment of the bore hole. Thus, our water is filtering VERY slowly and we found ourselves EXTREMELY thirsty tonight as the water was only trickling out of the tap.

I guess we could always just go to the kitchen faucet . . . never mind, we'd rather sleep thirsty.

This is a reminder to our friends in the West to count your blessings, water being just one of many!