Friday / wedding day

We arrived at the library to see that the carpenter had taken down the dividing wall and was busy taking nails out to reuse the wood. We also had a door removed from a back room to use in securing the storage area. I was able to hold one piece of wood but that was it they really want to do this themselves. We have decided that the electrical system is so unreliable that we are going to disconnect the house from the "grid" and make it totally solar. We will be able to use existing switches and wire which will make it easier to run them as the wiring is in the concrete walls. We had to "drill" a hole through one wall for a new circuit but since the tools are not yet here the "drill" was a man on his knees with a chisel hammer and pipe. The circuit we ran will be in plastic conduits and the "knock outs" are done by heating a metal bar int he fire and pushing it through. The building outside has been painted yellow, green and white and it really stands out.

We headed off to the wedding of Steve and Edith we were treated like royalty, announced by the MC as the guests from Canada and when it came time to eat we were served right after the bride ad groom. There was lots of colour with the ladies dresses and decorations. The music was done between speeches but it did start at 2 and end at 6 in a very hot outdoor setting. They served a buffet of rice, sweet potato and beef.