We are sitting here alone at Dan's place, which is a kind of strange feeling after being surrounded by people all fortnight.
Today was Dan's last day and in typical Dan fashion things had to be finished off. This generally involves Dan doing lot of rushing around trailing people behind him. He is the first to admit this saying today "this place is a lot more relaxed when I am not here"
Today's main task was to invert the water tank over the pole frame constructed this week. This was always going to be problematic with the number of people here today, not so much because of the weight but the sheer size and lift height required. We did manage to get the tank up there but it would not drop mainly because the frame was built for a 3.6 metre tank which was in fact 3.4 metres. Dan was a bit embarrassed by this since he did the measuring. However after some chainsaw work, some pushing of poles and whole lot of cursing, sweating and grunting the tank was fitted!
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| Ok so it's up there now it just needs to drop |
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| That tank angle doesn't look good |
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| This picture was posed after we had given up, note tank height, Dan, Kurt, and Michael |
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| Same picture with Susan and Harley |
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| In position! note the crew staggering home up the hill |
It was then just a matter of packing up for those leaving. We did help a bit and they finally managed to depart just after 2. They said there goodbyes leaving us as the sole residents for a couple more days. We took the opportunity to walk around the block back to our camp and found some nice areas we hadn't seen before. We then headed to town for a real coffee. We also had a stroll over to the library. Returning to camp it was back to the reality of scrubbing the dirt from our washing. I took the opportunity to dismantle our gas water heater to find out what senses the water flow as it turns off the gas too readily for my liking. After much ado I found a three wire non contact sensor which was not really what I was expecting. I reassembled the heater adding a lead to what I believe is the sensor wire so i can measure it's output with a view to modifying it.
It was after sunset when we headed back up to the kitchen to have tea. We have the luxury of 240 volts from the solar via a lead poked out of the locked building.
Tomorrow we are heading up the road to claim an offered shower from Mandy and then to Kenilworth for a look around.
It is jolly chilly tonight especially since we don't have the wood fire lit.
night folks
Simon
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