On Sunday, Ruth Crowie had invited us for lunch today at 2:30 so I stayed in town. The Stavropouloses arrived back from their long weekend with their children and grandchildren yesterday afternoon, so I met with Steve at 8am to compare notes on the MW transmission line design. Steve had found a copy of the drawings that I made in 1980 and we discussed some of the details not obvious from the drawings. I was able to then pass this additional information on to Mike Sabin and others that were inquiring about it.

Ruth Crowie lives on the other side of Manzini, so our drive to her place took us through downtown.

Ruth’s son Calvin and his wife Jacquie brought some pizza, chicken, salad, cold drinks and cake for lunch. They both are looking after Ruth these days. Ruth turned 85 years old yesterday. Calvin and Jacquie live on the Crowie farm east of Manzini. Calvin runs the farm and Jacquie does freelance accounting for several companies. It is tax time now, so she is quite busy. We spent a good portion of the afternoon conversing about church, reminiscing about the past and had a great time.

Since we were in town, we stopped by Pick-N-Pay for a few items before returning home.