Happy Birthday

One must be dedicated to go to Van Stadens even on one’s birthday. Of course I planned to take it easy and ‘just quickly’ put a joiner in the pipe where we made a temporary repair before going to Cape Town

The exercise was easy enough, take rocks off, cut pipe, let water run out and join. Never mind that I got soaked in the process, it was a warm day anyway.

Just next to the pipeline on the neighbours property they have begun harvesting bluegums and they’ve made an almighty mess and and access road along part of the River Walk and down the hill.

Goodman wasn’t even aware of it but he was rather shocked when he went and had a look.

To make matters worse, not long after the pipe was fixed Jenny reported a loss of pressure again and I found that the logging tractor had reversed over our pipe and broken it in a few places. That didn’t make me a happy chappie but there was no alternative but to go out and fix that too. Thank goodness for the foresight to have some spares in the Fovs room.

On a positive note we eventually managed to convince David (in charge of the veggie garden) that his problem was an airlock and all was sorted after installing a release valve on the dam wall behind the braai.

So, as usual, the relaxing day turned out to be a hectic one.