Hi Everyone!!  If you are a regular reader, you may remember that our well pump broke about 6 months ago and we have been relying on rain-water since then.  Thankfully we have had rain water without much of a hitch since we live in the district of Belize with the highest rainfall.  Coupled with hope, prayers and chorusing with the frogs, water has not been an issue….well, until recently.  It has been so dry for 14  days now (this dryness is sooooo rare for this region and we are not in dry season) we are down to about half of  a 550 gallon tank only so we are on Red Alert!!  Bucket Washes and no showers.

The saga continues…

Early yesterday morning, Gnome noticed water dripping out of a hole in our water tank (our rainwater tank).  Remember, there is no water in the well-pump tank.  He went over to have a better look and discovered that a nail from the water tower had punctured through the base of the tank and we were fast losing our precious water.  With Gnome swiftness, he used a hose-pipe to transfer the water into the empty well tank.  Phew!!  Thank-you Gnome for noticing…because if he had not noticed the dripping water, we would have no water left by the end of the day.

 

Okay, so we need rain. And we are looking at the weather report and there are no indications of rain.  We are now looking further afield for hopeful signs through frog ribbitting, rain hawks, the man in the shop down the road and whatever takes our fancy.

Still no signs.  Arrrrghhhh!!!

We still hope.  The man in the shop said,

“It no look like it rain but sometime it come from nowhere!”

In anticipation,  Gnome has patched up the water tank to receive rainwater.

Anyone know a good Rain Dance?  Munchkin and Gnome are prepared to Boogey On Down!!

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