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Ramblings from Charles Marshburn: GOTETH! Digging for water

Progress report - shoveling as hard as she can, now down 4 inches and no water and fortunately, no oil. It smells - on effort to get good sweet water from a well. Bona fide Pettitt's Fork of Russell Creek sage shares new wisdom on water witching, his husbandly generosity, his request not to tell Dr. Giles about his one-in-each-hand mint julep technique not seen on the cooking shows. A Warning to PC ladies: Maitus caedere is a crime in law and in Ten Commandments, and encouraging it could make one an arrestible, incarceratible lodger in a penal institution near you. - Best to mutter those thoughts under your breath, lest ye be on record. DISCLAIMERr for those who don't get it: This is HUMOR, not NEWS.
Response to: Charles Marshburn asketh, and geteth, expert water well advice from Pam Dailey.

By Charles Marshburn

Thanks to Pamela for some great ideas! I bought my wife a new shovel to cross with her old one, "Witching" you know,and although she wasn't overly excited, I offered her the chance to strike water.

I know! I am too good to her.



Well, I moved my lawn chair close to where she had chosen to dig her well and sent her inside for another mint julep.

I figured since she would probably be involved in digging for awhile, I might need one for both hands.

I would never ask her to stop digging to go and get me another!

I hope you don't let Dr Giles know about the mint juleps, because he is determined that I be a diabetic.

I couldn't stand disappointing him.

The well is now down to almost four inches and still no water.

With my luck, my wife will probably hit oil and my neighbor doesn't like the smell of that stuff.

His son says oil smells like money, but I never thought money smelled!

The wife says I tend to ramble in my writngs, but I've never noticed that.

I'll keep you up to date on the progress of the well.

Right now I need my first nap of the day and she needs to weed the garden.


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