We started the morning (after watering of course) setting up our new irrigation system; it was all going quite smoothly until we had a telephone call. It was Nick, Gary’s ‘friend’; he said “Can I ask you a massive favour?” that’s always a worrying start to a conversation. He said that Gary was at his quinta with food poisoning, and as he couldn’t drive him home (because his dog had surgery yesterday) could we come and pick him up.
When we got there Gary was lying on the ground (he looked dead); Nick was very brusque “Come on Gary, it’s time to go”, he wasn’t being in the least bit sympathetic. As we were driving back Gary said that he hated Nick and he wasn’t his friend anymore.
He is terribly thin, he eats only fruit and a handful of fat hen a day and then cycles 80k every other day to collect food. Brett tried to talk to him about his diet; he has no protein, fat or calcium in his diet but he won’t listen to our advice.
Back home; the irrigation system is a disappointment, there is still not enough pressure for a spray at the end of a hose – when we come back we’re going to attach a sprinkler systems to the water pump, but meantime we have to make do.
We assembled the pool this afternoon; it didn’t take long to fill it with our super water pump. It’s on a bit of a slope; so we have a deep end and shallow end! We got in .................. it was freezing, after all this is the water we’re using to keep our drinks cold; it definitely lowered our core temperature, it will be much warmer tomorrow (once the sun gets on it). It is good and will serve it’s purpose for this summer.
Hair washing (for me) is an experience; I use a bucket, with solar heated water (5L water bottles put out in the sun) for washing and conditioning; then the solar shower for rinsing – it works really well, and the water is plenty hot enough.
We checked on Gary; he had made a rapid recovery and says he’s going to cycle to Fundao tomorrow – so we can stop worrying about him!
Another beautiful sunset tonight.
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