Another warm night and wake up temperatures in the mid-teens. After breakfast we were both doing our “internet checking” when it started to rain and disaster struck! The internet went down(ish). It would allow us to connect for about 15 seconds, then kick us off for a few minutes. This was not good, what else could we possibly do when it is wet outside and a WiFi free zone inside. Lyn had the quick answer to that one, go shopping!
It was grocery shopping day anyway, plus Lyn had a 40% off coupon for JoAnn fabrics AND it was seniors day at JoAnn fabrics which gave her 20% off everything, even stuff bought with the 40% off coupon.
Some time later we made it back to the trailer. Unfortunately the WiFi was still misbehaving.
After lunch it was very humid and the temperature rose to 26°C, the humidex brought it up to 30°C. Lyn sat outside crocheting and I decided to adjust the antenna I put up yesterday. One of the neighbours came over and spent some time talking to Lyn about crocheting, and I just got funny looks from passers by when they saw me on the roof fighting a metal monstrosity.
The picture below shows the trailer with 6 antennas. A satellite dish, my shortwave antenna, two little antennas on the top of the steps, one TV antenna and the WiFi antenna on top of the TV one.
We later braved the humidity and the gathering black clouds and headed off for our walk. We dropped in at the office to collect even more mail and to report the WiFi problem. Evidently we were the only ones to report it. Back at the trailer I got a phone call from the WiFi company asking for details of the problem and a promise that it would be fixed in 20 minutes or the guy would call me back…. yeah right! Well, twenty minutes later it was fixed AND the guy called back, are you reading this Bell ⁄ Rogers?
Well we never got the thunderstorms that were forecast, but cooler (not cold) weather is on its way.