There were four present for the transmitter site devotions this morning — Kevin, Lionel, Ivan and I.

 I continued installation of the interconnecting copper tubing in the phasor room.  Dave Pederson came a little later and assisted.  There was a 12 foot length of about 8 inch diameter coaxial feedline which was too heavy to handle by myself.  So we installed this first.  We asked Ivan to assist as it had to be carefully maneuvered into place between various coils and capacitors.

After that was done, Dave assisted with the rest of the connecting pieces.  With his help, all the connections were completed by time for lunch.

At the duplex, I had my PB&J sandwich, while Virginia had ham and cheese, plus an applesauce cup each.  We shared a small bag of Funyuns (onion flavored rings) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funyuns  This was followed by a 15 minute snooze with my feet elevated.  It really does help the swelling of my feet and ankles.

After lunch and in the air conditioned 100kw transmitter hall, I had a long discussion with Dave Pederson on a variety of technical subjects and one, not so technical subject.  There are quite a few wasps around the transmitter site and they love to build their nests in holes, especially in bolt holes.   This was also true in Swaziland.  Anyway, Dave discovered wasps were investigating the two conduits (for blower power and control wirings) that end flush with the side of the dummy load.  We haven’t wired the dummy load yet so these conduits are empty and a very inviting place for wasps.  These have temporarily been covered with tape to keep the wasps out.

Virginia used the mission pickup to do some shopping in town this afternoon.  [She has excelled in relearning to shift a manual transmission.   Maybe she will now be willing to drive our pickup at home!]  She was concerned about all the people from the cruise ship being in town, but I told here that the supermarkets away from the piers would not be a primary destination for tourists.

After the meeting with Dave, I then did some catching up with with my emails and other correspondence for the rest of the afternoon.   Virginia was waiting to take me home at 4:30 pm.

We decided to eat supper before swimming this evening.  Virginia made a pepperoni and hamburger pizza.  We only ate half of it, so it will be leftovers for lunch tomorrow!  We also had lettuce with grated carrots and sunflower seeds.

We had Bachelor Beach all to ourselves this evening.  Waves were larger than normal.  Not sure why–maybe it was from the wake of the cruise ship leaving the island?  One couple drove up to the beach to get photos of the sunset.  It was overcast today, but we got a brief glimpse of the sun as it was going down.  No ‘green flash’ this evening again, because of clouds very low on the horizon.  The rough water caused us to shorten our normal cool-down swim some.