You know that Winnie the Pooh story where Pooh disguises himself as a rain cloud in an attempt to fool the bees and steal their honey? And to help bolster his disguise he asks Christopher Robin to walk around holding an umbrella saying "tut tut, it looks like rain".
All day long I felt like saying "tut tut, looks like rain". And it did. It looked like rain all day long. But it never rained.
And right before dinner I decided that the only thing worse than a whole day that looks like rain is when you're in the midst of a severe drought and have a whole day that looks like rain but it doesn't ever rain!
Our province is dry. Really really dry. It didn't rain last rainy season. And now there is no water. The countryside is suffering. And the rumor is that our city will run out of water sometime in May if we continue at current usage rates and the rain does not fall.
Honestly, it hasn't really affected me much. Yet. But I am concerned about those in more rural areas. And Matt and I are trying to conserve water as much as possible. (Our girls never seem to consistently flush the toilet, so I guess you could say they are conserving water too!) I am still using our cloth diapers, but I think the next big conserve-water change will be to switch to disposables. Laundering cloth diapers uses a lot of water.
Mostly, I know that the need for rain is desperate. And today, in a drastic departure from our normal sunny skies, it looked like rain.
But it didn't rain.
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I really, really wish we could share some of our rain with you! You know from first-hand experience how much it rains here, and it hasn't really stopped. So, people in rural (and not so rural) areas here suffer from landslides that destroy homes and kill people, while meanwhile north of us you have a drought and desperately need water. Sometimes it's hard to understand why! Praying the rain falls soon!!!
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