Friday, February 19, 2016

A busy day.

When 'The Quarterdeck' was being readied for our stay, we'd made up our minds to go as green as possible while choosing our power requirements. So, even though we'd my friend help us get the state electricity board's supply with a new set of posts and lines, exclusively for the building, the option to use solar energy was kept open.

Though it was available at acceptable costs, we weren't enthused by the 'refractive' model that used a maze of hollowed glass tubes because the preference was for the swanky array of photo voltaic cells that looked neat and elegant. The problem was that there weren't many vendors, in the vicinity, dealing with it and the costs, prohibitive! Hence, the project was shelved at that point of time.

A small solar panel, however, provides dusk-to-dawn light at our courtyard. Since hot water wasn't a serious requirement for us, for bathing purposes, that system was also left unattended except for an online water heater for mom's washroom because hot water was a must for her. Over a period of time, many of our guests had pointed out to us this deficiency and therefore, today, I'd a geyser installed that catered to the requirements of the remaining two washrooms.

The show room that we'd gone to pick up the small water storage heater from, didn't welcome plastic money and to avoid an embarrassing situation, my electrician bought the item on his surety - he picks up his requirements regularly from the vendor and hence, has this cosy arrangement picking up a commission in the process, perhaps!

The installation was timely because my aunt, along with her daughter and family had fetched up in the evening. My cousin was coming in for the first time and for her, the hot water was a must! My mom was damn cross with them for fetching up late but it was nice hosting them.

Lekha and her assistant, Preetha, had worked hard to get a swanky supper on the table.


Tailpiece.

Suresh, my cousin's husband and a chief engineer in the merchant marine, has to get back to Thiruvananthapuram tomorrow as he goes for another deployment at sea, on Sunday. They gave us a lovely Raja Ravi Varma painting on arrival! Damn cute of them!! They go back after a morning 'darshan' of the good Lord.

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