Saturday 31 July 2010

Awake: 5:54am    Temp 56    sleep 5+45    sunny    overnight @ Nicktown.

I skipped the KK meeting this morning but Kathy attended. I invited my 1st cousin Flossie (Florentz) to dowse my # 1 well for iron & pure water...& to find out at what level the iron is seeping out from?

This well is (110) ft deep & usually the pump is lowered to about (10) ft from the bottom of the well. Florentz couldn't get a reading of which water flow was @ what level, the pure or the iron, so I used his bundle of string tied to a rock, & attached a small metal can above the rock, lowered the rock & the metal cup & submerged both. Then pulled them both up & that metal can was filled with pure water. So I theorized that if I raised the water pump about (25) ft higher from the bottom of the well, maybe I could get more pure water out of the well in lieu of the iron water. Florence said it would be worth a try.

Meanwhile, he asked me to not talk to him for awhile so he could concentrate on using his dowsing rods & find another better well with little iron. He probably spent a good (45-50) min & finally told me: there are a lot of different water flows on your property but I could not pick out one that has little iron in it, so you'll have to depend on your pump # 2 for now until the commercially filtered water is brought into your property maybe next yr. I thanked Flossie for his efforts & then reported this to Kathy.  

After that dowsing experience, I was energized to start pulling the (100) ft deep pump & tubing lines up & lay them out to begin the shorting process. That was, until I found out: that pump & electrical wiring & tubing all weighed a bit more than I expected. With Kathy's help, we brought up the tubing about (25) ft., & tied it securely for now.

Still looking for something to bring pain & suffering to myself, I started mowing the grass; that was until I fiddled with the self driving mechanism. That took about (40) min of my time. It was close to 4:00pm when I really started mowing & I didn't finish until about 8:00pm.

Around 5:00pm, a small distraction took about an hr of my time: Kathy opened the door & told me that something was wrong with the electricity in our motorhome. When I stepped inside, there sure was something wrong: lights on our Silver Leaf Electronics read-out were flashing "red & green," my battery pack was reading "low" & not charging & the air conditioning automatically shut down.

I won't explain my fumbling troubleshooting process but I will admit that I caused the problem. It seems that when I shut off the pump #1 electricity, I also shut off our 50 amp power for the motorhome & it instantly switched to battery power. Kathy didn't realize it & I was outside mowing. The batteries powered the air conditioning for @ least (1.5) hrs & then dropped off & whatever else she was using also lost power. Switching on the correct outside circuit breaker brought everything back to normal save for the battery charging; that took quite a long time due to a regulated slow charge setup.

Dinner: Sirloin steak, a small baked potato, broccoli, cauliflower, mixed fruit & cherries.

Late evening movie: "The Courtship of Eddie's Father." We watched ½.

Lights out: 11:29pm.