Well...

We are praying for A LOT rain in the desert!  This week our water table has been too low, so we haven't been able to pump water out of our normal well.  We, thankfully, have a new well, but it hasn't been working.  It became my task to be forceful enough to make sure that the company who installed the pump came out to fix it.  I called on Wednesday.  They came out today.  Three guys pulled up in a big truck and got right to work.  They had done this a million times before.  I took notes.

I stood in the hot sun and watched as they wired the pump started it up and was hopeful that the water would come.  It did.  But only a little bit.  After an hour of watching some water come out of a pipe, we went up the hill to see if the water was working up there.  It wasn't.  The one-horse power pump wasn't able to get the water from 300 feet below the surface to a football field uphill.  Sad day!

We walked back to the well feeling discouraged and came upon a surprise.  The pipe that was under the cement was pumping water through a crack in the cement and had proceeded to flood the area around the well.  There was our water pressure!  Now, to dig up that pipe!  A heavy wrench did the trick for a while, but a pickax decided to show up to finish.  The men found the first gash in the pipe, fixed it and turned the pump back on--more flooding.  Two dime sized holes and a ten foot pipe later, we turned the pump back on to find that, yes, we will have water again.  Not all the way up to the top house, but at least to most of Canaan!  Praise the Lord!

Well...oh well....oh well...makes for a long day in the sun which means a sunburned and tired Cassie.  Praise the Lord for even the struggles we go through....for they will make us stronger!