It was a very dry year. No rain for two months. One day I turned on the hose to fill the horse’s water tank and, after a short time, the water stopped. With a sinking feeling I knew that probably meant our well had gone dry.
I took a walk into the woods to check on the well house, a small building sitting at the juncture of several springs. All the springs leading to the house were dry. I checked the extended weather report: chance of rain on Saturday. It was now Monday. We had bottled water for drinking, but I would have to haul water from a neighbor for the horses. Could we take a chance and wait for rain hoping it would be enough to replenish our water supply?
After considering my options overnight I awoke Tuesday morning with the conviction that it was time to have a well drilled. Last year we had problems when the water level got too low, now we were totally out of water with no guarantee about when we might get enough precipitation to restore running water.
Here is where the story takes an interesting turn. I have been practicing Law of Attraction for more than a year. After all this time it has become pretty ingrained. Rather than panic about our immediate crisis, I was able to remain calm and trust that the universe would work things out just right. (A huge step forward as last year when we had well problems I was a nervous wreck. We ended up being without water for nearly two weeks and there was no way I wanted to go through that again.)
I recalled a conversation with a neighbor about wells some months earlier. He had mentioned a company that did great work. It could not just be coincidence that I had had this conversation and was then able to call and get that company’s name. (Funny, my neighbor didn’t remember at all and really had to scratch his head to come up with the name, Ziegler’s Well Drilling of Newfoundland.)
Next I placed a call to Ziegler’s. I spoke with Terry who said he could stop by in 10 minutes or so. No arguments here!! After a brief conversation and a ball-park estimate, we struck a deal and he said he’d send a crew to begin drilling that afternoon. He would also arrange for an electrician and backhoe. When Law of Attraction kicks in it really kicks in! By 1 pm a big rig pulled in and went to work.
The noise from the driller was no fun at all, but after four hours they hit a good, solid, vein of water, 225 feet, all but 50 was bedrock. That made the drilling more challenging, but saved us a lot of money as they didn’t need to run pipe through the rock portion. Things were moving along with remarkable efficiency.
The next morning, Wednesday, the backhoe arrived and created a trench to run the piping. Shortly after came the electrician. He had originally thought we’d need a new circuit panel as we were maxed out, but incredibly, he found there were some wires no longer in use and he was able to complete the work for $90 instead of the $650 estimated. (As a bonus he discovered live wires that could have killed someone and removed them.) The bill for the backhoe was also substantially lower than estimated. As I said earlier, when it kicks in, Law of Attraction doesn’t mess around!
By 11 am Wednesday I had running water in the house. I had only needed to haul two loads of 40 gallons each to keep the horse tank filled. (Huge thanks to our generous neighbors who shared their water during the drought.) Today I filled the tank from our brand new well!!!
The final bill for everything was less than the lower estimated range for just the well. We now have better water pressure, colder water, a supply that should serve us through future droughts, and it’s pure. The water test came back with the comment that it’s so pure it even smells like water!
As these events were unfolding I just had to marvel at the incredible efficiency of Law of Attraction. It was a night and day difference from when I fussed and stressed over no water last year versus remaining calm and allowing the pieces to come together this year. As each bill came in less than expected I was reminded over and over again just how powerful these principles are. “What we resist persists.”
