by Adam Dawson
My parents and 3-year-old nephew were visiting us during the holiday weekend, and it was nice to work together to make meals at home and spend some time thrift shopping and rehabbing furniture! A very thrifty weekend indeed.
But Tuesday after the long weekend brought its own unwelcome news. This morning, Emily alerted me that the water had gone out from all the faucets in the house. We called the well service and after a diagnostic call, they informed us that the water level in the well had dropped too low and the well wasn’t producing water. Our well ran dry! Texas is in its 3rd year of a historically severe drought, and the issue just became drastically real to us. Thankfully we have a large storage tank and can have water trucked in.
But after the well diagnostic call and the water delivery today, we’re out about $200 already, and we haven’t begun to fix the problem yet. Hopefully they can lower the pump deeper in the well (several hundred dollars), but if that doesn’t work, drilling a new well will be thousands and thousands of dollars.
To top it off, the tenants’ washer and dryer went out, so that’s going to set us back a few hundred more. Our nascent emergency fund is going to take a huge hit this month and we’re praying we don’t need a new well drilled – that would likely put us deeper in debt. Oh to be debt free and able to withstand financial shocks! One day!
So join us if you will for the Texas Rain Dance!
