Troubles

Troubles was Originally Posted on April 25, 2009 by lavarock

I tested the last part of my water system, only to find that the valve at the top tanks, which allows draining them, is not working. I changed out the manual valves for electronic one, only to find that the electronic one up there has too little pressure to fully open. SIGH! I will probably have to make it a manual valve for now.

Still the plants sit on the ground, unplanted. Soon, soon they will be in.

The pump uses a relay to pull in the 220 volts. I moved that relay to the house side of the wire so that when the pump is not running, the wire inbetween is not powered. This would be the same as using a faucet at the house to turn off a hose, rather than leaving water in a hose and using the sprayer at the end to only control the water.

Some areas of the islands got lots of rain, we here in captain Cook did not.

I was hoping to make it to my 40th High School reunion at the end of the month, but have to stay here to get the plants in. When they finally get planted, I will celebrate big time! I think it will be pizza and beer at the Kona Brewing Company. I have to tell you that they have the best pizza I have ever had in my life!

We have more snow on Mauna Kea and even had some thunder and lightning down at sea level.

I have to get my laundry done and will be heading into town early in the morning. I work part time up there and Saturday is a big day for check-ins and check-outs. Perhaps I can hawk a bit of coffee to the outbound visitors. They HAVE to take some kind of gifts back home

As I was typing the last comments, I was so tempted… so very tempted…. we do check-ins and check-outs, and even check-on out guests. Howvere we don’t check-off anything because as you know, check-off was on Star Trek (OUCH!)

Aloha for now!