Ants, ants everywhere and not a drop to drink

by Mama Mabel

As I was trying to catch up on my dish washing last night, our water pressure became more of a water trickle.  This has happened before so Coondog suggested I try again later.  We thought the hot water tank needed to fill and was sapping all the flow from the cold water.

I went about the nightly business of getting Ladybug to bed which she was in no rush to do.  I watched a video with hunky hubby so we could have a few uninterrupted minutes of vegging together (aren't we romantic?).  I got my jammies on.  Finally, just before I went to bed, I tried to run the water so I could brush my teeth.  The trickle became a drip then became nothing.  I quickly called Coondog in to investigate.

By process of elimination, Coondog determined the problem had to be at the pump so he went out to the well house at the front of our property.  Ants had swarmed the electronics and gummed up the works.  He blew most of them off and returned to the house for bug spray so I followed him back out to help.  Sadly, he doesn't appreciate my flashlight holding skills so I ended up watching him work.  After another trip back to the house for paper towels, cotton swabs and what I think was carburetor cleaning spray, the pump was as clean as it was going to get.  We gave the spray a little time to dry then I stood in our laundry room with that door and the front door open while he went out to the well house and yelled for me to flip the breaker.  Our plan was the he would watch as it came back on and yell his head off if one of the many flammable sprays we'd used caught on fire so I could shut the breaker back off.  Brilliant, right?  Thankfully, everything went smoothly from that point on.  I could hear the water heater filling and the faucet we'd left on in the tub start to flow.

What relief!  After imagining that either our well had run dry or our pump was irreparably broken, running water felt like a miracle.  Growing up in the city, I had never before experienced water not coming out of the pipes.  Even when we have had power outages this last year that shut down our pump, we had enough left in the pipes to run for a few minutes in an emergency.  I'm learning that nothing should be taken for granted but that God is big enough to provide everything we need.  What a great God I serve.