Well Drilling and Dowsers

Yesterday, we went up to our vineyard to check our water gauge to see how much water the recent storm brought us. We were delighted to see that we received 2 inches of rain which fell slowly, but consistently during the overnight hours on Tuesday evening into Wednesday morning. That broke a long string of rain free days since July 4th when the remains of hurricane Arthur gave us 1.5-inches of rain. We have come to the realization that relying on Mother Nature is too risky so we have taken steps to provide our young vines with a consistent source of water via a drilled well.
So, when we received the July/August issue of Vineyard and Winery Management, I read with interest, the cover story called Witch Way Down: The Divine Search for Ground Water. This article is right up our alley because we are at a point where we will be meeting with the company representative that will be drilling our well. The article is about finding sources of water through dowsing or "divination", a combination of human intuition and supernatural inspiration. I finished reading the article and thought that I need to find a willow stick so that I could test my dowsing powers, but my husband poo-pooed the idea. I didn't think too much more about dowsing until a timely email from Cameron Roucher, the vineyard manager at Rathfinny Estate in Sussex, strongly suggested that we look for a dowser! Calling all dowsers in or around Connecticut!