Happy Swiss National Day
August ‘Deluded Custodians’ Challenge
There are several water troughs in our little village. One of my favorites has a line of rubber duckies engaging in a favorite Swiss past time. Talking. Endloser regen. Endlessly talking. Meine Ohren bluten. My ears are bleeding. Alles gut. Es okie dokie.
Here’s where the synchronicity kicks in. I’m sending tons of photos to the family in hell-on-earth Calzoncillos, where they’ve had a horrendous heat wave this summer. The day after I sent one of the duckie pics, my son said he found a rubber duckie in the street in front of their house. Coincidence? I think not. There are very few rubber duckies en Calzoncillos.
by Eve Muyanja
Water is not scarce but it’s hard to get. Every day I carry two ten-litre Jerry cans to the village well. It’s about four hundred meters from home so it’s not too far. In fact, our house is the nearest to…
