HangMyHat

Kati Neni won’t be receiving that phonecall afterall!!
New Well – Check
Water in said well – Check
Pumping rate of water in said well – 10 lts per minute!! Check Check Check!!!!
Am I going crazy or am I going crazy!!!!

Kati Neni (aunt Kati) has a special skill-set.  This septuagenarian can find an underground source of water with the aid of a very simplified gizmo – two protruding metal sticks with handles.

This is how the mumbo jumbo works.  Neni holds them in her hands with a firm grasp and walks on the property where you are trying to find water.  The sticks stay unmoving in her hands until they “sense” the water – then they sway gently to and fro, until they finally “locate” the exact source of the water, at which point they go berserk moving every which way, in every direction.  Et Voila!  You have to dig to a depth recommended by Kati Neni and there you have it, your very own bird bath!

Gabor & I have tried to fruitlessly revive the old well at SargaHaz.  It was time to move on and look for a new source of water on our land.  Our friendly neighbours (they’re moving to the hills from Eastern Hungary and are in process of building a house, digging a well etc,  just like us) recommended Kati Neni and her super-duper powers.  Gabor drove to her village, asked around, found her eventually – she was away on a water trail for some other fellow, and drove her down to SargaHaz.

Out came the specialised stickeroos, mad they went when Kati Neni walked around the KiwiHaz (the rundown structure that does nothing except prop up our Kiwi Trees) and there made Kati Neni her prophecy – “Dig 20m deep at this spot and you shall have your water and your well.”  Might I add that Kati Neni has never, not once failed at this job………….

Or so she says. 42m deep and counting, we’ve managed to find the water, but we still don’t know if it is a never-ending source – plus “the walls” caved into this hole which means the water we’ve located is a thick slushy sandy concoction, suitable for:

• Nothing. 

We have to dig still deeper – into our pockets that is, to “pump” out this sludge, clear out the path for the water, and see if it all works.   I know I don’t want to be the first one to break it down to Kati Neni that her gizmos are probably beyond retirement age and have called it a day. 

So, how about a little faith in the unknown.  Gabor has some guys working on the water pumping, well bottom clearing project and we shall soon find out if Kati Neni and her spindly wonders work for real.

Till then, its Water Water everywhere, but not a drop to drink!

The Goya visited the Kovacs-Berry household on the 3rd of July with a beautiful baby girl in tow!  Antara Kovacs-Berry is here to stay!  Gabor & I are loving our forage into parenthood and we couldn’t have wished for a more perfect creation.  The hills are resonating with the joyful coos of Antara and oohs and aahs that accompany her wherever she goes.  And our small household is  finally a home.