Jonas and I were the only ones at the transmitter site for morning devotions.    Lionel took a day off to watch his 3 year old daughter while his wife had to take care of some business.  Later in the day, Dave Pederson was there for a while and Ivan was painting.  Ivan has been painting the WEB power building to match the transmitter building.  Now he is repainting some of the transmitter building because it looks so faded.  That’s one thing we have noticed here–all the bright Caribbean colors fade to more pastel colors over time.

After checking emails, we ordered five relays and sockets to be included in the shipment that will be sent from Niles in a month or so.  We also attempted to order two contactors, but somehow the order did not appear to go through.  Rather than risking making a double order, we decided to wait a while in case an email confirmation for the order might have been delayed.

Jonas and I began installing more vacuum capacitors in the phasor room.  The total number of these capacitors that will be in the phasor room is about 50, not the 40 that I estimated earlier this week.  Six bolts hold each capacitor to their base plates and each one’s orientation must be verified using photos that Kintronic took at the factory.   Often it is necessary to sort through 40 or more photos to find the one that most clearly shows the right orientation that will allow the prefabricated connections to fit right.

Sometime during the morning, the special truck came and loaded the ‘rented’ container that brought the dummy load, back onto its trailer.  The shipping company should be taking the container and its trailer away shortly.

Had lunch at the duplex, as usual.  Rather than a PB&J sandwich (which is my standard request), Virginia made a toasted cheese sandwich.  Also had a small bag of cheddar Sun chips.  I then lay on the couch with my feet up for a 15 minute snooze before heading back to the site.  It is less than 1.5 miles from our duplex to the transmitter site.

On the way, I noticed that the salt ‘harvesting’ machine was close to the road, so decided to get some clearer photos.

Back at the site, I continued to install vacuum capacitors and by the end of the day 32 of about 50 were in place.  Tomorrow, Good Friday and Easter Monday are public holidays, so everyone has a four day weekend.  Since we only have a week left on Bonaire, I might try to continue doing some work tomorrow.

We made a quick trip to Van Der Tweel supermarket this evening to get more ingredients for making desserts for next week–two days now instead of just one.  Traffic was really heavy in town, probably due to the long weekend ahead.  No swim tonight because the beaches are also crowded because of the long weekend.

Supper tonight consisted of leftover spaghetti topped with grated cheese, lettuce with bacon and grated carrots.  Do you notice that the list of supper items is a lot shorter with the rest of the team gone?  For dessert later in the evening was a repeat of last night vanilla ice cream with chocolate topping on a sugar waffle.

Virginia has developed a rash of unknown origin on her upper arms.  It is amazing the variety of diagnoses from A to Z that she has received — allergy to the sun, or sun screen lotion, to zika virus.  [The zika virus has been on Bonaire] The rash seems to be spreading to her forearms.  This evening she is trying to contact our family doctor via Facebook for his diagnosis and advice.  What amazing times we live in!!

Since tomorrow is Good Friday, we decided not to turn on the alarm clock.