Jesse switched us over from the ditch to the well, though he says the tank’s not filling as well as he’d like, whatever that means. So we gotta go easy on the water for a while, not do too much laundry at once, etc. Oh, those rural hassles, but it sure beats city life! It’s nice to be able to drink the water again too, and to have cleaner water in the toilet. That ditch water made the toilet pretty yucky and cleaning it was a bitch.

He’s going to finish the porch roof next week because he’s going back to work which I was glad to hear so long as the dogs don’t become a problem. Tom says he thinks someone will be with them and that someone was there today because he was talking on a two-way radio.

It turns out that when we tried to call him, it was the wrong number. So the guy’s not as aloof as we thought he was.

But now the pressure’s on once again to keep a schedule cuz of him having to come down here. Once this well thing is finally working right and the roof’s done, are we going to be able to go more than two weeks without seeing him down here? I sure hope so!

Most importantly, I hope Tom finds another job before they get the chance to force him to take more unpaid days off or go out of business altogether! Last year’s little tragedy has left me so traumatized, and so worried about our security.