It rained heavily all of yesterday and all last night and I know that this morning there will be a large pool of water on our road where one of the drain covers gets clogged with leaves. There is nothing quite like the pleasure of clearing that blockage and watching the water drain quickly away. So what does that say about me or about the Dutch and their skill in managing water challenges? I have no idea.
Quite a number of years ago when we were still living in Walnut Grove and our property was being developed and churned up by excavators and we had a particularly heavy rainfall, I went out with my shovel and made little channels and ditches to release all the pooling water. One of the guys on the construction site came along and asked if I was Dutch. I said I was and he said he could tell by my efforts to control and move the water around. I have always loved doing that and can remember even as a child playing along the curbs releasing and pooling water behind little dams and floating little boats or sticks down the streams. Maybe every child loves that.
It rained heavily all of yesterday and all last night and I know that this morning there will be a large pool of water on our road where one of the drain covers gets clogged with leaves. There is nothing quite like the pleasure of clearing that blockage and watching the water drain quickly away. So what does that say about me or about the Dutch and their skill in managing water challenges? I have no idea.
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