Liquid Refreshment…

The season being what it is, D&L prefer to spend the mornings with their horses while it’s still and relatively cool, so the Monday water runs have been knocked back a bit. Neighbor D took one look at the gigantic pile of water bottles I was loading into his truck and said, “I’m going first this time.” At the dispenser, that is. Normally I go first so I can do my grocery shopping while he fills his family’s bottles, but today my time at the dispenser was going to pretty much take up all my available time at the store.

Thanks to this weekend’s care packages I can now store just shy of 40 gallons of filtered drinking water! Since LB is – alas – no longer with me he’s no longer partaking, and sloshing and spoiling, so I’m back to averaging a little over a gallon a day in summer. Even without rationing that’s a month’s supply of the good stuff. I gifted one of the new bottles to D&L as thanks for their having let me have the one we found in the big town about 50 miles away a few weeks ago, and loaded all the new ones except one big one in the back of Ian’s cave as reserve. Edward sent a flat 5-gallon container with a spigot that I’m hoping to somehow incorporate into the Lair, which would stop me from having to constantly pick up big heavy bottles every time I need to pour water into a tea kettle.

Also one of those new bottles had an envelope taped to it containing pieces of this strange green paper that I exchanged in town for gasoline and beer! What an intriguing concept.

Thanks, guys.