It's been nearly a week without water in our town. Lots of rain, but no water in the house. Rumor has it that it is sabotage. Someone or some group may have it in for the Mayor. They say it will be back today. Everyone here says "IF" it gets done today. They are the experts, for me to think that it will arrive, and everything back to normal is probably a mistake. Trying to get my head around this. Say what you mean and do what you say are concepts not fully integrated here it seems. I might consider this a Sicilian Lie. My neighbors know enough not to trust what is told them, so I defer to their experience.
With so much bottled water dedicated to keeping clean, sometimes I just don't have enough to drink. But wow those mandarine oranges are fast becoming juice...mm mm.
Sicilian housekeeping and the bella figura -pathologies in my opinion- are being challenged as folks go without showers, matted down hair , dirty fingernails, and dishes pile up in the sink..... How do they tolerate it. No easy feat for my neighbors. Hard for me, but not as much as for they, whose pride and Sicilianness is all wrapped up in a clean house .
at 8:34am, as I write this post, the gurgling starts. Immediately I fill all the empty bottles in the house.
Ahh, the dishes, a shower, and then to the shop.
It is has been a hard week, no customers, and we are not as clean as we would like to be. But we are doing well. We realized early in the week that our customers were likely opting for rotisserie chicken instead of our spiedini.
It's odd, I usually drink a lot of water, and earlier in the week, I noticed that I just wasn't, but that I needed to. Since I have a water filter that I brought from the States I try to use it instead of buying water in plastic bottles. But oddly I was not drinking much water.
I learned also that people are getting sick, they are calling it a flu, but who knows? There is also rumor that e.coli got into the water supply, that the lines were crossed, and this is why they shut it all down.
I have been called upon by friends here to provide homeopathy for the "flu". We stared with osciloccinum, and that has worked. But could it be that the water is making folks sick?
Intuition. Thank you! -I am not sick.
The butchershop had water all week. The butcher told me that below his building there is practically a well, it is full of water. The old man who lives there, and had the shop for 45 years, had plenty of water. What does he know?
Precautions that I marvel at, it seems are the response to failings of public services, and acts of God, and climate idiosyncracies that I am just learning about.
And as such, I have not yet conquered the casalinga (housekeeping) here. Perhaps the pathology as I call it, the obsession with cleanliness is a response to the conditions of life here that I am still struggling with.
Stone houses and no centralized heating, which means less dust in the winter, but no matter how much you iron, the clothes get damp just being in the house. It is unpleasant, and is something I really need a solution for. If I can I probably should find some of those bags that absorb humidity.
I miss Home Depot.
Okay time to do the casa linga--sounds like a dance, right? I guess it is.
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