Well drilling is a little slow right now

I posted earlier that the rains have returned and that means people are busy in their fields plowing, planting, weeding, and harvesting. The well drilling naturally slows way down during planting and harvesting times because people need to be in their gardens tending to the food they will eat and/or sell. This year has been atypical in that the water well drilling has been slow all year. The drought and resulting famine brought the well clubs to a halt as there was little enough food in the home and what little food there was could not be used to feed a 10-neighbor well drilling team. Where we drilled 120 water wells last year, we've only drilled 17 this year. Things are looking up though. Starting Monday we have 2 new well clubs that we will begin working alongside training. There are 8 other well clubs waiting on a free drilling rig and trainers so that they can also begin. We only have about 2 months left before we need to head back to America for baby #4, but it should be a busy 2 months full of well drilling and farming. I'm hopeful these well clubs will hit the ground running and we can add another 30 to 40 water wells before the year is out.