Clean water-- no fooling.

April fool's day around here always lends itself to our fair share of pranks. I had a rubber snake in my bed--- truly not funny.

There are a couple of things we do not joke about--- clean water and baseball. We are Texas Rangers fans, but I would say that our oldest is a Texas Rangers fanatic. The absence of Rangers games was one of his biggest issues with our moving. We checked all the radio stations to see if he could hear the game--nope. Then we tried the Fox SW channel again (we have checked it everyday since arriving to Colorado and it has not been a part of our channel line-up), and the game was on!!!!! I found out later it was on ESPN too, but we didn't know that at the time. That little face lit up and he started jumping for joy... literally. Then he got to see his favorite player hit a lead off home run. No matter the outcome of the game, the season has started with a bang and their number one fan was pumped up.

Speaking of pumps, another serious thing in this house is water. Clean water is still in the works, but we are getting close. The water man is still working on pipes and pumps, but the cistern is repaired and filled with city water. It has no color. It has no odor. It is beautiful. Our hot water heater is so corroded that the hot water still stinks, but we have a new one in the basement waiting for the plumber to come tomorrow or Monday to install now that the water is clean. We are almost there.

I have been calling our repairman the "water man", but he is actually more of a "water pump system specialist". Now, the man who brought us 2000 gallons of city water to put in our cistern this morning is really the water man. His business card actually says, "The Water Man"-very funny. No matter their titles, I am very thankful for both of them.

It has been a long 19 days of using bottled water, and I plan to get a long and hot shower and to shave my legs and condition my hair...twice. I plan to use more than one gallon--- but I hope I use less than 2000.

Ezekiel 36:25a "I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean."