The view from Villa Straylight: evening temperature inversion

The evening temperature inversion:

 

 

Evening Temperature Inversion at The Troutbeck School

 

Evening Temperature Inversion at The Troutbeck School

 

Evening Temperature Inversion at The Troutbeck School

 

 

And, the morning temperature inversion:

Morning Temperature Inversion at The Troutbeck School

 

Morning Temperature Inversion at The Troutbeck School

 

Morning Temperature Inversion at The Troutbeck School

 

 

Hurler delivering stones over the trenches and into the building site

Tractor power being used to deliver stones for building the foundations:

 

Hurler crossing the first foundation trench

 

Up to the second, internal, trench

 

We want the stones right here!

 

On target

 

A drivers eye view

 

 

The drivers eye view

Don’t worry there was a large boulder below the wheel!

 

The largest we have ever moved!

 

ROAR!

Walliser käseschnitte

Before Easter we experimented with making our own Walliser käseschnitte. Of course this required a lot of experimentation and tasting!

 

Walliser käseschnitte cooking under the grate

 

Walliser käseschnitte fresh from the fire and ready to eat!

 

Walliser käseschnitte at its best!

 

 

Some of our previous versions from the electric grill:

 

Making Walliser käseschnitte at home

 

Eating Walliser käseschnitte at home

 

Making more Walliser käseschnitte

We build our own Fogão a Lenha cooking stove

Just completed building our first Fogão a Lenha – i.e. Brazilian wood burning cooking stove. With a hint of the rocket mass heater / stove thrown in.

 

Our finished Fogão a Lenha with chimney over on the right in the corner

 

Three pots on the Fogão a Lenha

 

 

Flames showing that heat and smoke are drawn along the stove to the chimney

 

Didymus the builder

 

Boiling 20L of water

 

Boiling 20L of water

 

Wheel drums form the rings

 

Learning how to position the wok

 

 

To allow maximum heat!

 

Fire from the entranceway can be felt on the third ring in – drawn along by the draught from the chimney.

 

We like it!

 

 

Upgrading to a 50 KVA transformer

The ‘Davies and Daughters Towing Company’ just helped out ZESA and collected a nice heavy 3 phase 50 KVA transformer using the flat bed trailer. Then hauled it up and swapped it out with the 10 KVA unit.

 

Re-securing the transforming to the trailer part way through a bumpy ride

 

On site and waiting patiently until the old one is lowered down

 

ZESA starting to remove the old 10 KVA transformer

 

Arcing horns on the 50 KVA oil immersion transformer

 

Pulling up the new transformer onto a newly created platform

This thing weighs in somewhere around 550 kg including windings and oil.

Pulling up the new transformer onto a newly created platform

 

Thank you ZESA!

Dentistry for horses! Time for Joey

Time for the big boy – Joey –  and true to form for big strong men he needed one and a half ‘wee drams’ before being willing to submit to the dentist!

 

Yes I am old and long in the tooth!

 

And I am not going through with this willingly either!

 

not one bit!

 

But with a dentist this good what can I do?

 

Just look at me!

 

Even the school children get in on the procedure

 

This is the last thing any young stallion wishes to ever see!

 

The twitch being demonstrated

 

Friends taking Joey’s pulse

 

Friends taking Joey’s pulse