Hello! It is a lovely, sunny day and there have been no night rains for two days. We are crossing our fingers and hoping that we get another run of dry days. If we do, Gnome will be digging…digging holes for fence posts to fence the geese out of our house area; the geese are getting messy, rowdy and noisy and our previous unfinished walls (tyres and concrete blocks) have not worked since they can jump. There will also be more digging for grey water ponds to the back for a banana and plantain area. Once the ground is dry, we will have to mow again with the brush-mower; however, we do have a slight problem because the v-belt has broken. I am sure if we lived anywhere else, this would not be an issue but finding a 50 inch belt in Toledo is proving difficult…we went to the Farmstore last week…they had v-belts sizes in 62″ or 67″ or 102″ AND there was the usual palava!! This time, there were no lengths written on the v-belt packaging and we had to try measuring loops with a straight ruler. Needless to say, we never found the right size and Gnome walked out of store muttering something about “Belize-Rigging again.”
Oh and I have to tell you about Saturday morning!! It was our town day so we had a leisurely morning at home and didn’t think anything at all about the continuous rains the night before. Well, it does rain most of the time! When we got to the Jacinto junction which joins onto the Highway to Punta Gorda, there was a parked truck, lots of people and the dory was out!! Yes, we were flooded at the junction once again! The water looked deep so we decided to wait. After a while, a young guy drove down in a Missionary bus and offered to drive in front of us and as he said, “…part the waters…” We thought that it sounded like a good idea so we followed…
There were a few issues….arghhh!! Firstly, the bus went as slow as a snail across the water and instead of “parting the water” it was pushing water towards our truck causing a lot of resistance. Usually, Gnome can control the acceleration to get out of the water quickly but this time, we were forced to go at a sluggish pace. There were some crazy moments with deep forward and sidey-way dippy movements. It was sooo Scary!! I was praying all the way through but I still felt confident because Gnome looked like he was handling it in his usual cool, debonair manner.
It was a bit of “touch and go” at moments but we managed to pull through. I think there was a lesson in that…never go behind a bus in a flood!! I said to Gnome…
“…wow, you were sooo cool!!”
Gnome replied,
“…what??? My leg was shaking all the way!!!”
(Well, I guess I was looking at his face…not his leg!! Ha-Ha 🙂 )
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