I was licking salt from the rim of my glass when Asli told me that elderly pelicans are often blind. She claimed that the force generated from smacking the water during a dive (and the fact that this ... [+]
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When there is no water left, we'll leave. Until then, we ration what we pull from the well. Three-quarters of a bucket for drinking (a full one when the day gets above 90 degrees, which is happening more and more now), half a bucket for cleaning (the house, the dishes, our bodies) every three days, a quarter bucket for cooking. We measure our days in buckets.Adaline is in charge of the bucket. Sometimes it makes me hate her. But Mother has said Adaline is most exacting, the least prone to daydreaming. It was Adaline, after all, who marked the increments in blue paint.We had to say goodbye to t