Some of you may have heard that Texas is in a drought. The Austin area, where I live, is well on it's way to scoring the newest drought on record since the 1960's. Many of the surrounding areas have already instituted water restrictions and we are all doing what we can to conserve. This means, that while our front lawn is small enough to be watered twice a week, our back yard is completely dead. We also had to pull all our flowers from the front since they burned up in July and were unsalvageable. If today hits 100 degrees, which it's expected to do, that will make a record breaking 89 days of triple-digit-heat this year.
Naturally, this means that we haven't been getting our cars washed. It's wasteful, and against the restrictions, to wash them ourselves, plus we felt that it wasn't right to take them in so someone else can waste water on something so unnecessary. As a result, our cars looked dusty and sad. Which explains why Elijah was so excited about the small rain shower we had last night.
This is how our cars get washed - drought style:
See how creative and conservationally minded we Okies are?
Linking this up with those wild and crazy
iPhone Photo Phun gals:
