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A slightly warmer evening it's 15 here at 9pm rather than the usual 8 at this time, probably a result of a bit of light cloud. (as evidenced by the lightest rain shower falling as I type).
We walked again this morning in the sun before heading to Maclean to do some shopping for Carl. Groceries etc, wine, pick up stale bread for the pig, enquire about his van and buy another battery for the solar electric fence controller. We also stopped for real coffee mmmmmm.
The car was ready so I got to work out how to drive it. It is Ford vanof the Austpost variety. It is a manual that has been converted to auto operation. There are three buttons on the dash, drive, neutral and reverse. When the van is in drive the computer operates the clutch and changes gear (it is still a manual transmission). It works surprisingly well although the changes are not as fast as an automatic transmission they are still pretty quick.
On our return Susan applied more varnish to the window frame surrounds while I had a lesson in how to tie the wire to hold down the clamps. I must admit it is one of the more difficult jobs I have done. The wire is fairly thick and is draw about 1/2 hard. The ties are done with double strands. Of course as you bend the wire it starts to harden. Then when you twist it bodgy joins either come apart or if you have put a notch in it, it breaks. Suffice to say it took me about 3 hours to fit 6 wires accompanied by some pithy epithets.
The quote of the day,
Susan, " I don't want to hear any more of that swearing"
Simon,"Well you better go inside then .....and take a beer from the fridge and put it in the freezer for me" However the east wall is straight and correctly aligned to the roof jamb and top plate. Tomorrow it will be tensioned and the wires tightened. Once I publish a picture it will all be clear as mud.
Misato cooked tea again tonight and also uploaded pictures to face book so at last we have some pictures for yesterdays blog.
cheers Simon
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