We are blessed.
I am back in a world now where better-than-Dasani water comes out of the spigot for absolute free. I was buying a case of Dasani a week in Florida.
When I lived there, they had this gallon bottled Carolina Mountain Water for $1.29 a gallon (gas was under a dollar a gallon in those days, so it was way more expensive than gas... which has never been cheap!)
It comes out of the Nantahala National Forest, 3,600 feet above sea level, Carolina Mountain Water is bottled in a plant nestled in lands totally free of the worrisome ground water pollutants common in our country's municipal and private water sources. That water is the best. Go to the link here and see for yourself: Carolina Mountain Water
What is neat about their water, however, is that the same 'aquifer' that supplies this Carolina Mountain Water (said to be near Cashier's Mountain) is said to be the same one that supplies me up here on Tom Cat Ridge in the Southern end of Virginia! It tastes absolutely IDENTICAL to Carolina Mountain Water!
I find the waterbed to be the perfect temperature and soon I shall descend into its watery warmth for the night. I have missed my bed most of all. When one sleeps in a waterbed, every other bed feels like you are sleeping on the absolute floor. I awoke this morning in a very nice Comfort Inn in Walterboro, South Carolina ... some few miles away from Charleston and Fort Sumter... and I felt like I had been been beaten with a phone book and a rubber hose. The bed at the condo was also a difficult transition for me, one which I did not fully make while I was there, despite the use of pillow top mattress cover. No, I am glad to have access to my water and to my sleep once again. And like the vampyre, I too must also sleep upon my native Virginia waters at night!
But first, a bath in my massive tub full of this same perfect water... and then on to bed. Living on showers and swimming in salt water every day is nice, but it does tend to do a number on one's skin. Nothing sleeps like full motion water... I am such a Scorpio.
