The holiday weekend was over, so back to the workweek routine! This morning there were nearly 20 persons at morning devotions. Eleven crew members came from Logos Hope to help for the day. I think there were 6 young men and 5 young ladies. I wasn’t involved in assigning or supervising tasks, but I know the girls did extensive cleaning of the four antenna tuning units (huts) at the base of each of the four towers. One also vacuumed the phasor room that I had been working in. A couple of the fellows worked on repairing barbed wire fences around the perimeter of the property. Over the past few weeks, donkeys have managed to find access. Two of fellows mounted LED floodlights on the outside of the building and hooked them up to the wires that were run last week. Some others worked on framing a ceiling in a small room off the new lab. Virginia said there was another girl that worked in the office.
My first task was sorting out the orientation of six capacitors in the phasor room for best arrangement of their copper grounding straps, then using the concrete anchors installed yesterday to bolt them to the floor.. After that was done, I began connecting the copper pipes in the center of each inductor (coil) that connects to its tap.
With the Logos Hope crew here, lunch was brought in by Vera and Virginia. Pizza was the main dish. There was also cole slaw and various drinks — cool and hot. Virginia made brownies with walnuts for dessert. They set up four tables in the large tool room with real flower centerpieces. One of the fellows from the crew commented, “Flowers! Not used to real ones.” I counted about 25 people present for lunch at 12:30 pm, which included several from the office. It was nice, but I missed my short nap today!
After lunch, the crane arrived to set the dummy load into place. Jonas and I had marked its foundation this morning to show exactly where it should be set. The huge crane lifted the 2 ton dummy load up and over the WEB building, then set it into place.
After this was done, I finished connecting the rest of the approximately 20 inductor taps in the phasor room, then I connected a couple of interconnecting pipes. At the end of the day, arrangements were made with Lionel to solder-braze the rest of the copper ground straps in the phasor room tomorrow. I said ‘good bye’ to Jonas as he and his family plan to leave on the Logos Hope tomorrow headed for Aruba. They plan to fly back on Saturday morning and we are not sure we’ll see them before our flight leaves that afternoon.
Virginia caught a ride into town with Vera after clearing up after lunch. She asked me to pick her up between 4:45 and 5:00 at Gio’s. So that is where we met at about 4:55 pm. I convinced her to go with me to the webcam bench to have our ‘photo’ captured on the 5:00 hour. Proof that we really are still on Bonaire!!
From there, we came back to the duplex for supper. We had leftover nasi goreng AGAIN– the fourth and final meal from our $10.50 Chinese carryout.
We also had salad with grated carrots and bits of real bacon and finished off the last of the watermelon.
We went for a swim, just before sunset. Earlier, we had noticed there was hardly anyone at Bachelors Beach, but when we arrived about 6:30 there were quite a few people setting on the ledge above the beach to watch the sunset–maybe to see the ‘green flash’. http://earthsky.org/earth/can-i-see-a-green-flash We watched the sun setting while also immersed in the coolness of the water. There was a haze near the horizon today, so it was obvious no green flash would be seen today. Those setting on the ledge left when it became obvious the sunset would not be visible.
Later in the evening we had triple chocolate ice cream on a sugar waffle for desert and a glass of iced tea.
Because I did not rest with my feet up today, my feet seem more swollen tonight. Would appreciate your prayers that the swelling does not get worse. Thanks for praying, Virginia’s rash is getting a lot better.