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Don’t you forget about me (Don’t don’t don’t don’t)

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This is the sign that reminds us not to turn on the water pump. See the little x over his sad little eye?

In my version of the song, Simple Minds are singing from the point of view of the screen that goes over the opening in our water cistern. The screen is singing to me that I should not forget about it. But like the brat pack breakfast clubbers surely did ten or so years later, all was forgotten.  

What’s the worst that could possibly happen if you leave the screen off your water cistern? Something could crawl in it, drown, and die. Guess what happened to our screen-free water cistern? Did you guess that something crawled in it, drowned, and died? You’re close! The correct answer is TWO! Two things crawled in it and died! Twice the fun! Twice the ick!

Just so you’ll consider standing near enough to speak to me should we ever meet on the street, I won’t tell you that before we discovered two drowned mousies in our water supply, I took an oblivious, unknowing shower. Oops, I just told you anyway. Darn. But at least I didn’t tell you that during that shower I opened my mouth. Shoot! Oh well. I won’t take it personally should you run screaming from me and my most-likely-plague-ridden body.

We will put up with a lot of odd things in our water supply out here in the Wastes, dust and dirt and even a bit of algae. Plus the things we don’t see but are most likely in there, such as owl poop from the roof that the rainwater washes down. But we draw the line at carcass water.

So now the cistern that was so joyfully nearly filled up by the last rainstorm is currently being emptied on trees and plants living within the radius of the garden hose that is attached to it. Bye bye rainwater.

We’re back to taking showers with drinking water from our 5 gallon water bottles. It’s ten million times more pleasant taking Dr. Bronner’s/washcloth showers in summer than it is in winter. But still. All that water gone gone gone. The man in the truck will haul water to us sometime this week after Brandon has had a chance to clean out the empty cistern.

Oh little water cistern screen, I won’t won’t won’t won’t forget about you. Ever, ever again.


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