Been pondering of late . . .
I can remember as a kid,
drinking the water out of our
family cistern. Every so often,
my dad would clean it out and
proper guys would come and
fill it up again. But, before they
came . . .
One of the things I recall . . .
the frogs dad would pull out
and throw up over the edge
as he cleaned out the cistern.
Rather gives me the willies
to even think about it. Did so
at the time, but for entirely
different reasons. Yikes!
I also remember the bathings;
mom first, the cleanest of our
bunch. I would follow and my
bro after. Dad, a masonry brick
contractor, would be the last . . .
all of us using the same water.
Again, the term yikes comes to
mind!
Today, we do not drink out of
the sink, as we did in yesteryear.
We drink bottled water . . . not
only filling the recycle bins to
the max, but somehow wasting
water, plastic . . . etc.
Living in a 130 year old cabin
with unpalatable water, I have
to buy drinking water from the
local health food store. Still, I
make a proper effort to use and
reuse all the gallon bottles of
water for a full year . . .
Somehow, my guilt is not
unrequited! Go figure . . .
ever so thirsty
water water everywhere
and not a drop to drink
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