Well Whinge

 

We’ve had two days of clouds and rain, and that’s lowered the temperature enough so that this was the first day since May, maybe, when we haven’t had to turn on the AC.

I hope that the rain is raising the water table.  We live in the country, and that means our water comes from a well.  Even at the best of times the water is hard, and we use a water softener to make it something we actually want to wash our stuff in.  Except that this year’s been so dry that the water table’s gone down, and our desperate little well pump is reduced to sucking up all this muck from the bottom of the well pipe and shooting it into the house.

I can live with water that isn’t exactly crystal-clear, I guess, but the crap in the water is jamming or blocking all the appliances that use H2O.  The water softener has been out of service more weeks than it’s been working.  The filters on the washing machine are so dirty that only a trickle of water is getting through.  (Yes, I can clean them.  I know.  It’s just another annoyance.)  I don’t know why the dishwasher continues to work— but then of course the dishes look a little dingy even after they’ve been cleaned.

So rain, you bastard sky!  Rain! I need a higher water table.

Today the Weather Service informed us that it looks as if next year is going to be a replay of this year— I guess in 2012 the East will drown again, while the Southwest burns— except that, with the water table low and the reservoirs drained by two years of drought, we may not have the water to put the fires out.

So . . . something else to look forward to.

Not to bring you down or anything.