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What do you guys say? Yea, don’t expect mangoes when you plant papayas.
So, this weekend was really exciting. Had a chance to visit our village with brothers. The most enthusiastic part, of course, a bathe in the traditional tubewell. No matter how advance technology has gone through, no mater what stylish wadding pools you’ve – if you’ve once been under the sheer burst of cool water being pushed from the heart of earth and then pressuring your skin, you’ll be blown out of your mind and would forget modern swimming deluge. If don’t know what it is, it’s just a modified form of a motor water-well pump with a small or large housing reservoir built out of it to hold water for a while but having adjusted drainages that keep water fresh while it flows off to fields to irrigate them, which of course is main purpose of having any pump in village fields.

Ours is just in the middle of mango trees’ garden and it makes the whole adventure quite more fascinating than fun, it sounds The borehole of well is more than 150 feet and seeing it from top makes your vision a bit dizzy and you can fall off right into it if you’re seeing by bending yourself. I’m afraid of heights but that doesn’t mean I may also be afraid of depths (holly shame-o, lol) but that’s exactly this level of depth does. It’s illusionary. So, I had to sit down, pull my hand above this 20′ diameter of wide-open hole and take a snap from there, lol But that’s not much scary if you go down by downstairs’ side. Pump that throws water up is a 4HP.

There’s small sort of control room out of it that’s closed most of the times unless there’s a problem. In summer it runs all day usually! Then there’s when fun begins. When you put your head under full speed blowing water, you get your ears and nose full of water. As water in reservoir was full up to my neck and above all its floor was slippery, I really cannot withstand compelling force of blazingly cold water and fell off couple of times. Hilarious but funny as hell! Check out rest of the snaps, while I try to find out a way of eating these mangoes floating on icy water in this bucket. You really don’t get mangoes if you seed papayas !!!