Tuesday
Today is the day…I hung out on the roof for a short time. As we close in on getting our massive solar system up and running, Mike and Courage spent a large chunk of the day on the roof wiring up the solar panels.
I climbed up the scaffolding to have a look – this is the view from the scaffolding…
I sat on the parapet and took a couple of photos. This is Mike doing some of the connecting…
The view is pretty spectacular…
Once all the connections had been done, they were able to test how much electricity was being generated.
Each solar array (there are three of them) provides 4 units of electricity each hour for about 5 hours of the day. That makes 60 units of electricity available each sunny. Mike still has to set each invertor up to take the load and then we can start using it. That may happen tomorrow.
Quite early this morning, Mike and I went to the beach. The wind had dropped overnight and we joined a whole lot of the locals enjoying a swim. The water was amazing. We then walked to Pick n Pay and bought fresh rolls. We got the timing right this morning. On the way back along the cat walk, with the tide high, I couldn’t resist having another swim in the rock pool. It’s so fun in that one. I’ll be doing that again for sure. It’s been a gorgeous day and one to throw the doors wide open and enjoy the outside coming in. I also did the fruit for another Christmas cake.
So it’s been a productive day. I worked this morning and am about to take Courage and Ruth home. Tomorrow evening the family arrive.
We are hearing of more positive cases of Covid in our city. If it continues as it is, we’ll cross the million case mark in a couple of weeks. What strange times we are living in.
Covid numbers in the Western Cape – – 3057 new cases over the last 24 hours.
Covid 19 stats – South Africa –
- Friday 24th July – 13944 new cases (maximum we had in a day)– 250 deaths
- Sun 13 Dec – 7999 new cases – 170 deaths (761,011 recoveries/ 76,677 active)
- Mon 14 Dec – 5163 new cases – 175 deaths (762,746 recoveries/79,930 active)
- Tue 15 Dec – 7552 new cases – 210 deaths (764,977 recoveries/ 85,041 active)
- Wed 16 Dec – 10008 new cases – 166 deaths (774,585 recoveries/85,275 active)
- Thu 17 Dec – 9,126 new cases – 184 deaths (780,313 recoveries/ 88,489 active)
- Fri 18 Dec – 8725 new cases – 274 deaths (783,818 recoveries/ 93,435 active)
- Sat 19 Dec – 10,939 new cases – 254 deaths (787,782 recoveries/ 100,156 active)
- Sun 20 Dec – 9,445 new cases – 152 deaths (793,914 recoveries/ 103,317 active)
- Mon 21 Dec – 8789 new cases – 216 deaths (796,346 recoveries/ 109,458 active)
Total cases: 930,711 Total deaths: 24,907
Psalm 100:5
The Lord is good and His love endures forever; His faithfulness continues through all generations.
We trust the Lord.
The best is yet to come.
Keep the smile going.
God bless you.
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂