pray for gas

These four blue gas tanks are empty.

We have one more that is on "yellow"..... almost at "red" - which means empty.

Normally these blue gas tanks are connected to the water heater, the dryer, the stove and the BBQ.

What that means, if you are good at deducing, is that we have one gas tank left, with only an itty-bitty bit of gas left in it, with which to heat water, dry clothes and cook food.

And each time we want to do one of these things, we have to disconnect this tank, carry its heaviness to the appropriate connection, reconnect it and pray that there is enough gas to get through the "job".

We would like God to do one of those widow with the oil and Elijah (or is it Elisha?) jobs and just keep that tank going.

Actually, we would rather have God do one of those "have the gas people be able to get gas somewhere and bring full gas tanks here" jobs. That would be even better.

So yes, for some reason, the people who sell gas don't have any. Its been several days now. And it just so happens that we were running low on several of our tanks.

Usually they come around several times a day, honking their horns, and you run out, flag them down and buy a full tank of gas from them (and give them the empty). Not sure what is happening or why, but apparently they are out of gas.

Now we can most certainly go without drying our clothes - we did that in Costa Rica anyway. And there is something quite fresh and lovely about hanging clothes out to dry.

And I suppose if worse comes to worse, we can cook our food on our little outdoor fire pit thing.

But the shower thing - that is a tough one.

The water is freezing!!!!! As in very very cold. Not sure if it snow melt from Cotopaxi or one of the other two volcanos we are surrounded by, but it is very chilly.

So not fun.

It would be nice if we could harness up the newest addition to our family:

She has plenty of gas to go around.

And it don't smell like flowers either!

How is it, exactly, that such a little, cute ball of fluff can put out so much nasty stench?