No rain overnight... Puttered around the nursery this morning, potting up peanut cuttings, rounding up a few more 2 gallon pots and potting on more Malabar chestnuts. Moved some more mulch from the mega stack... made a brew of Melia leaves. Set off f0r the quarry again to get some more cinders, having used up most of the supply on the guadua holes.
Filled up on biodiesel and was heading for the library to return "the Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" when I realised that the temp gauge was dead. Popped the hood outside the library but couldn't see any loose connections. Took the video in and wandered around in quite a tizzy. Why wouldn't the fan come on? I borrowed a book about making craft with bamboo, even though it kind of looks pretty poor, and then walked over to do some banking and think on the car. Decided to get some wire and hook the fan up mainline to the battery so that it ran constantly. Having set that up I headed over to Aloha Otto and there the guy helped me discover that the sender had become disconnected. For some reason I thought the fan switch was the temp sender... So I wasted some time, but at least I didn't waste my truck...
Oh I found a good soaker hose also!
Restocked the nursery with cinders and compost and organised pots and trays ready to rock on with peanut production. Took more peanut cuttings. Made an organic fertiliser nmix for the guadua holes, divided it up into 9 pots and distributed them to their relative positions. Potted up some comfrey root cuttings that had struck. Harvested some bananas.
Saw Donalds trenching work to divert runoff from his "banana republic".
Lorinda solar cooked taro's and sweet potato's. Very yummy.