It Has Cooled Off!

It started with a few spits of rain on Wednesday evening followed by another couple of heavy showers.  Rain totals weren't anything startling though, around 6 mls or so.

Thursday morning was overcast and still.  Soon however a very strong southerly buster cooler change came in.  The wind blew like crazy (which you would have seen if you watched the golf on TV from the Gold Coast).  The pool was full of refuse, I am guessing the rubbish blew in from houses a couple of blocks away rather than just next door.

We rolled up the sun blinds the wind was so strong!  Then we had a couple of showers of rain during Thursday and the wind continued to blow a gale.  The temperature was around the mid 20's.  This morning (Friday) the pool is back to 24°!

Needless to say I didn't bike ride yesterday or this morning.

The guy I called to fix the air conditioner arrived yesterday.  He picked the fault in one!  It was a Gecko (a small lizard that gets into everything in this part of the world) that had shorted the power and blew the fuse in the air conditioner unit itself.  Photo left.

The fuse was replaced and the air con flicked into life again.  No cost at all to us.

I have the beer cooling in the Waeco portable fridge on Thursday and it sure was doing a great job.  A bottle of my beer was frozen, so effective had been the repair!  If only that were true.  The Waeco is back for repair again.  The guy believes it may be something other than the thermostat which they replaced two years ago causing the fridge just to cool and continue cooling.  I await with baited breath for what went wrong!

Then the wind picked up again blowing the blinds off the velcro strips I used to anchor them as per the photo above.

So this morning (Friday) after dropping the Waeco off again I was off to buy some more new 'reusable' velcro strips.  The older ones had lost quite a bit of their sticking power.  The new ones are holding OK at the moment.

I did get the final brew for 2015 on this morning as well.  This will be the last one I will do before heading to Melbourne on Tuesday week.  It should start bubbling this afternoon I hope!  Washing and bottling will occur throughout next week!

Our area where we live is going ahead in leaps and bounds with huge residential developments planned for the south of Caloundra.  The increase in population is having an effect on the number of cars on the road and increasing traffic. So yesterday the Community Association met with the Chief Advisor to the State Government's Minister for Transport and Main Roads on the issue at her office in Maroochydore.

So while I interviewed the advisor, Trish shopped at the huge "The Plaza" shopping centre in Maroochydore.  You can read about what happened at the meeting HERE.  I put this report on the BeCA website this morning.

After the meeting, Trish and I adjourned to the Alex Headland Surf Club for a few drinks and dinner.  Very pleasant it all was as well!

And last but by no means least, Trishs' new $185 phone arrived from China yesterday.  We have a hassle at this stage because her current phone uses a 'mini' sim while the new phone uses a larger sized card.  Trish is hoping to pick up a sim card adapter so she can put her mini sim into the new phone.

Regretfully we tossed away the adapters we had or we have stored them 'somewhere' at home.  Despite turning the place upside down last night we couldn't find them.  Hopefully she will come across one today in Caloundra.

So it has been a bit hectic the last few days.