Not a Drop to Drink

This past weekend we had an advisory to not drink water--in our municipality, and several more to the west. I was idly facebooking about it (and receiving expert-level advice from a Betty whose mother is a city water engineer) when it occurred to me that if I didn't go to the grocery store now, they'd run out of water! I got there just in time.

Now my cats will be so addicted to San Benedetto water from the glaciers of the Dolomites, they'll never want to go back to tap water.

Anyway, as I was zipping down the hill to the store, with my ipod and rubber boots and empty backpack, I thought about this bit from "Wear Sunscreen" :

Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying
is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing
bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things
that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you
at 4pm on some idle Tuesday.

Which also reminds me of the expression: Worry is a fast getaway on a wooden horse.

This thing, that the real troubles in life will blindside you, is pretty true in my experience. And the things I've really fretted over, they usually worked out okay. I tried to keep that in mind over the weekend.

(By the way, the advisory was lifted Sunday. So we're still stocked and ready for the next emergency!)