Today was a bit hotter than it has been recently at around 30C but we made it even hotter by burning off the trees we cut down yesterday. Amazingly they burnt pretty well considering they were green. We burnt about a cord of good firewood, but what are you gonna do...
But, also we had a bit of cool today by turning on the fridge for the first time. Nothing like a nice cool glass of lemonade (they call the fruit something like kola and they are are bit like a cross between, lemon, lime and mandarin), and a nice chilled fruit salad. You'd think with all the fruit it would be easy to get a fruit salad but it seems if you want a decent fruit salad here you have to make it yourself. Could have done with some pineapple, but. At the moment I'm just running the chest freezer with an external thermostat to run it at 4C and will monitor power before running it as a fridge and freezer.
Sherri and Larry who live on a yacht near Ano beach also called by with a nice cold homebrew stout, so it's been a refreshing day.
There was an 8.2 magnitude earthquake about half way between Fiji and us. It shook for more than 30 seconds here and there have been a few long aftershakes since. Fortunately no major tsunami because our island is not very high.
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