We live in the desert. Normally our town gets water for 2 hours every morning. For most families, this means that they fill up barrels in their house to use for the rest of the day. We are very grateful that we have the luxury of a water tank on the roof. We almost never notice that our water service isn't "normal."Today, however, we're noticing. For some reason, no one on our street got water yesterday morning. Our tank ran dry while I was washing dishes at 11 or so. Water doesn't come on Sundays, so we're holding out for Monday morning. That will be almost 48 hours without water.
What does no water mean, you ask...
- no showers
- dishes piled high
- limited cooking options
- doggies drinking bottled water
- no toilet flushing
- brushing teeth with bottled water
- no laundry
- no hand washing
It's really not the end of the world, but the flies in the kitchen (which is more or less open to the great outdoors) are getting thick. We're marching forward and hoping our deodorant holds out.
UPDATE: We just found out that there's no water coming tomorrow either, in celebration of Immaculate Conception Day! Oh dear. I'm wondering how I'm going to get the sweet potato stains from lunch off my hands. Tim's wondering how Jesus was immaculately conceived on Dec. 8 and born 17 days later.
Hang in there, you guys...Your light and momentary afflictions are achieving for you an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.
PS-I think the term "Immaculate Conception" actually refers to the Catholic doctrine that Mary was conceived/born without sin, not that Jesus was conceived "immaculately." That would account for the 17 day gap. :) Which doesn't make the holiday any less problematic b/c they're basically celebrating that someone else besides Jesus was sinless! Um, yeah.
Mary thanks's for the information before I make an idiot of myself down here as well.
I still have one question. Does this mean that Mary was born on December 8th?