Well Water!!!

10/23/06 - 2nd Day. After Lunch. Today we went and got the first water from the new well on brother David's property. Danielle and I drove up to the well with our water containers and it took 1 hour and 10 minutes to fill 7 containers. It is slow because the current well pump (a 12 volt pump designed for solar applications) only pumps less than a gallon a minute. But the upside is that we didn't have to drive anywhere and the water was virtually free. For right now I just hooked the pump wires up to the truck battery and the water starts running. PRAISE GOD for water! I think the fellas and I are going to start on a hand-dug well in the next couple of weeks. I know that brother David and the other folks who are in the midst of getting ready to move down are all very excited about having water on the property.

Our training with the calves continues, and I look forward to building a cart for Pita that we will use to carry the water containers back and forth.

We are still working on the root cellar, and I will try to get some more pictures for you up pretty soon. Right now it sounds like Danielle is grinding grain for fresh bread, and we are looking forward to maybe some rain over the next couple of days. This morning was cold. It was about 37 here at the ranch when we woke up this morning. Today it has warmed up nicely, and currently it is over 70. I love autumn.

Tonight, Lord willing, we will have the impromptu sermon we were supposed to have last night. I hope to have the one on Mary and Martha put up on BiblicalAgrarianism.com in the next couple of hours.

Your servant in Christ Jesus,

Michael Bunker