Busy, Busy, Busy!

Already Monday has been a busy day for me.  As a result of putting a 'brew on' automatically means I have two subsequent chores to get done, bottle washing and bottling. The brew went on on Thursday and usually needs to be bottled under a week later.  At this stage I have earmarked Wednesday for the bottling day.  Therefore 30+ bottles need to be washed and dried.

So today was a bottle washing day.  I can now do a bottle washing of at least 30 bottles in under an hour.  That includes setting up, doing the washing and putting stuff away.  So by around 8:15 this morning my washed bottles were sitting on the bottle tree drying in the sunshine.

We have discovered a shortcoming in having the cheaper power rate connected for the pool filter.  Any peak time during the day, power on that circuit is disconnected for an hour or so each morning and for 3 or 4 hours each night between say 4:30 pm and 8:30pm.  So if we wish to sit under the new shelter during the evening we have no light available to us until well after 8pm.

We need some sort of lighting so yesterday I bought what is called a 'Shed Light" from Bunnings. It is a solar light and runs 10 small LED's which provide ample light for just sitting around after dark.  So I installed that as well this morning.

Looks interesting doesn't it?

My friend who was having problems with connecting to TeleChoice had his problems sorted out this morning.  The lack of knowledge of some of the young staff at the Telstra Shop was amazing.  No it won't work in that phone, the phone is locked etc were all absolute rubbish.  It turned out the phone was faulty.  Once the faulty phone was replaced with a new one, the activated TeleChoice sim card was inserted and the phone restarted it worked perfectly!

At one stage they were going to sell him a a $35 Telstra Plan with about half the calls allowance he had with TeleChoice.  He is a happy chap right now and enjoying his new inexpensive phone on a wonderfully generous $20 per month phone plan and connected to the Telstra network!

Another 13k bike ride this morning followed by a glorious swim in the pool.  We have some heavy looking clouds rolling in from time to time today and another promise of thunder storms tomorrow.  They may just be right this time!