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Author's program note. Today you will turn on the water tap in your home or office over and over again; just how many times you will not bother to consider. The water is there... it is easily accessible... you can have as much as you want as often as you want.
But this most assuredly is not the case for Barbara Buegeler, her husband David, and their arid acres in West Texas. Water, for them, is a constant concern; one they ponder about during the day and which they dream about, still pondering, at night. This is their story... a story of fortitude, commitment, and, yes, of a love that binds them to the land that defines them. It is a story every worker on the land will know and which every urban dweller, folks like me, should know... but do not... and so I write today as much for myself as for you.
For the incidental music for today's article, I have selected Dimitri Tiomkin's soaring score from the 1956 film classic "Giant." Go to any search engine and listen... but remember this: the music you listen to accompanies a work of fiction. What follows here is a work of fact.
A statistic that defines all.
A West Texas ranch like Barbara Buegeler's, where cattle are raised mostly for breeding, just a few for meat, needs at least 20 inches of rain each year. When these rains come, each drop a benediction to the earth and its momentary proprietors, all is well. People like Barbara, though they wouldn't like their neighbors to know, greet the rain when it comes as congregants in God's own cathedral. The water falls from on high and, before touching the good earth, enabling everything that follows, they are happily drenched and grateful. Water is everything here... and they greet it accordingly, with pure joy -- and relief -- in their hearts. Only those who have ever been without can so exult and the prayers that come involuntarily are not just words... but profound gratitude. These are the people of the land... and they know what is important.
These are now the people of drought and this is a story of resolution, faith, of fear and apprehension... but most of all, of abiding commitment. Meet Barbara Buegeler and her husband, both 67 years old.
The Buegelers have for over 30 years ranched west of San Saba (dubbed "Pecan Capital of the World"), at the edge of Hill Country, just where West Texas begins. It is a place that, for them, transcends mere beauty. It is "something of a heaven on earth," they say and which their decades of commitment confirm. It is a place where they wake up early to greet the dawn, grateful for the decision they made so long ago in their human lives, but just the shortest instant in the life of the land they own in law.... but whose acres in fact own them; again a fact which every land dweller knows and no urban dweller near or far away ever really comprehends.
These acres, always waiting for the rain, bring forth fruit in plenty and the pecans for which this place is famous. Here there have been good years... even great years... but since the summer of 2010 there has been drought, day after day when the rains have not come, just a few tantalizing drops. Local folks scan the skies, looking for portents in the clouds and hot breezes and have turned inward as they wait for what they and the land must have.
The rain stopped and the searing winds commenced.
Prosperity in West Texas is the result of a formula, conceived by Nature, known to all the people of the land. There must be just so much water, just so much sunshine, and the land must supply just the right cocktail of essential nutrients. Changes are neither desirable nor welcome, for changes spell problems and problems, over a particular period of time, spell catastrophe for the land and all its inhabitants, man and beast.
Beginning in mid-May 2011 the great heat began. No one thought much of it at the time; great heat is a regular feature of this land.... but as this heat continued day by day, inhabitants knew that this was the heat they fear and respect... for this is the heat that brings drought and all its well-known miseries. These predictable miseries marched smartly in as the daily temperatures rose, as high as 118 degrees, never lower than an even 100. And what the sun delivered by day, it left a hefty residue by night, when the land and every inhabitant still perspired... and knew the relief would come, had to come, but when?
Water tanks never dry before, dry now. And still no relief in sight...
How bad is it? So bad that three ponds which were never bone dry in these 30 years are now completely dry, no drop to be seen, even by accident. And this meant, for the first time, too, the need to haul water from the fire station in the town of San Saba, lest the drought on the land carry off its parched inhabitants. For lack of water the land and everything on it dies, no matter how inured to drought they may be... and this reality is known to all.
Hauling water.
Anyone who has ever carried liquids home from the grocery store, knows only too well the heft of water and how difficult it is to move. Imagine, then, the need to haul every drop needed by plants, animals and humans... and to know that to stop means death and desolation. Thus, no one thinks twice about the task; it is necessary, and so must be done.
In San Saba each tank is filled to its 525 gallon capacity. Two such tanks are carried on a gooseneck trailer; another truck, this one driven by Barbara, hauls 325 gallons more. To maintain life (and hope) the Buegelers must make three trips a day (each trip 1 1/2 hours) three times a week. In each trip they haul 1,375 gallons. Home, the water moves by gravity flow and pump to fill the storage tanks, a time-consuming, laborious and absolutely essential process which cannot be missed, skipped, forgotten or complained of. It is all an inescapable process on which the land depends.
And as it is with water, so it is with everything else, too.
The animals, bereft of grass, must have all food and water promptly delivered by their human servitors... or they will perish under the blazing sun. Hay is non-existent and must be delivered... at prices that rise with the temperature. Many bales are needed each week; the prices now $110-175 for each, a worrying rise of up to $50 per bale. But this, too, is necessary, life in its delivery; death without.
And there is worse, far worse, to report.
Good neighbors and friends of so many years now broke; selling what little is left, dreams gone, now of the land no more. Towns you never heard of like Goldthwaite dried up, no water there at all. Eighteen hour days are now the norm as thirty years of work come down to the back breaking reality of food and water, unrelenting labor. And around them wildfires start and surge amidst the dry trees and foliage and worse expected, as Winter is prime season for these fires which jump and play -- and destroy.
Then just the other day a thing so small to the rest of us, so crucial to the Buegelers and their neighbors... some rain, 6 inches, not enough, but God's pledge there would be succor and better times. And so Barbara and David, made thus more hopeful, went out to feed the 22 baby calves and their mothers. And thought that despite all, theirs was still a paradise, the right place to find serenity and even the God who did not forget them after all.
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About the Author
Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Dt. Jeffrey Lant is also the author of 18 best-selling business books. Republished with author's permission by Christopher Hessman <a href="http://ProvenAutomatedBiz.com">http://ProvenAutomatedBiz.com</a>. Check out Commission Commando -> http://www.ProvenAutomatedBiz.com/?rd=nn5cTGlx
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