I escaped the cleaning, the boxes, and the furniture arranging and ventured out for a few hours:) The 4-year drought continues, and it is obvious all around me. The village itself has a lei water system, using water channeled from the mountains along a series of canals to private homes and public spaces. So, some of the village has lush green manicured lawns and gardens and the others, like mine, have none! I will in due course become a water harvester. Today I have water tank being installed and later I will learn how to harvest water from the road above my property so that when it does rain, I will conserve and preserve as much of the runoff as possible. (more about this idea later🫣)

I traveled along a dusty farm road and came upon two completely empty dams – pans – that have clearly in times past, been full and sustained their own microenvironment. Things used to flourish and or survive, but now all there is is death and decay! So incredibly sad. Hopefully, this year the drought will break!