Road Trip!

Tomorrow is the big day! All four girls and I are taking a road trip back home to Indiana. It seems strange, but I am more excited about going there than I was about going to Disney World last week. It has been almost a year since we moved and I am still very homesick, as are all the rest of my family. I think only the dog is happy here, and really, she is just happy anywhere we are. There are only 397 days left until we can make a clean break from here, and I just can't wait. My husband said something the other night as we were getting ready for bed. It was sort of funny, but sad at the same time, and I was feeling the same way. He said, "You know how when you are on a vacation, and you are getting toward the end of it and you are sort of looking forward to getting back home? Well, I was thinking that, and then I remembered what home we were going back to, and I wasn't so ready to go back." When we were boarding the airplane heading from Orlando to Dulles, I had forgotten that we weren't going home, home, we were going to the Virginia home, and I too, was feeling a little let down. I think this summer and the next school year will go fast as they all seem to do, and in no time, we will be looking toward finding a new home, back home and that will be one of the happiest days in my life!

Regulating Private Wells

I read an interesting article in our local "newspaper" this weekend. I put the word newspaper in quotes because this paper is not very professionally written, but is rather written by locals who include a lot of editorial comments mixed in with their "news" articles. Nevertheless, this article was regarding the regulation of the use of water by folks who have wells on their private (home) property. Out little town experienced quite a dry summer and fall last year, and so had to put some restrictions on the use of city water. There is a fellow living around here who has elected and re-elected to the Board of Supervisors for this Northern Virginia county. This fellow has been tossing around the idea of putting meters on private wells so that people who have them do not use more than their fair share of the water in this county. He seems to think it would help conserve water and make this town less desirable for further growth and development--something that apparently a powerful group of people here think is a good thing. This town is so anti-development, anti-progress, that they refuse (and have been refusing) to build a much needed new high school to alleviate the overcrowding of the local high school. So back to the well regulation, I don't think this idea is very good for anyone. Putting meters on private wells would not only cost the county a ton of money, but can you imgine trying to get access to some of these rural farms and homes? Who would determine how much water a family can/should use? My family of six certainly uses more water than the childless couple who lives behind us. We do more laundry and absolutely flush our toilets more often than those neighbors. Would this water regulation also put a limit on toilet flushing? It just seems like a crappy (no pun intended) solution to the water troubles this area is experiencing.