Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Living with electricity again!

Greetings from hot and sunny Sierra Leone, where the tilting of the earth from winter to summer in the Northern Hemisphere means we have very direct sunlight overhead most days, and so our solar power collectors are happy and productive! We have two of our three triads up and running (the third is not up yet due to time constraints for Randy, no system problems, just only so much he can do in a week!)

January had us without any external power... that was a throw back to the days of living in Beira! But then we got one triad up, and TECT has had lots of expensive work done on the ancient generator, so we are back to living with electricity off our battery bank... it is so nice! You just don't know how much three hours of power means until you do not have even that! By early February he got the second triad up and collecting all that good sunlight, and so we are actually able to connect up to the internet and use a fan to cool off our computer!

I will try to send this, updating from here in Jui has not been possible before, but we will be trying to use this website more now that the power situation is better. We trust you are having fun watching the world head into spring up North... we are eager for the rains but know that means reduced power collection, so everything has a down side to it!

Blessings on you as you live to be a blessing to others! Toni for three Fennigs in SL, for now!

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