Looking back on it, I found myself second guessing my Bessie decision. I wondered if it would have been better to have kept the sweet cow alive. Then we could have built a cart for her and had her haul the water for us rather than using the truck. She could have tanked up on water while at the pond and then brought the rest of our water back with her, no gasoline necessary. But it was too late now, and it would have been yet another drain on our already meager water supply. To hedge our bets when it came to staying liquid, we decided to make more scouting missions, expanding our search radius in hopes of finding other creeks, ponds, lakes, or springs. Unfortunately, we had absolutely no luck. Any streams we found were dry. And the one pond we came across was so muck-filled and nasty looking that we figured it would be more trouble getting any useable amount of clean water from it than it was worth. Plus, it was out in the middle of a field with no easy way to get a vehicle to it. Five days after finding it, it was completely dry anyway. Looking at the map, there were several larger lakes and a river around 15 to 20 miles from Olsten, but getting there and back would rapidly diminish our available fuel supply.
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