Wellhouse Complete!

We needed to paint the wellhouse, cut a hole in the center of the casing cap, take all the wiring apart, thread everything through the hole, and put it all back together again. For proper insanity creds, it was essential to do this on the hottest day we could arrange for.

Today was the day!
Here's the really ugly cap installation, which if you ignore all the clutter you can imagine is now complete. M is re-wiring the controller in the background.

We put the final coat of paint on the roof first, so it was plenty dry enough by the time we finished the rest of the building to put the solar panel back on.

That's the completed controller panel.

Connect the last wire on the panel, and AGUA! Fritz and Little Bear, who had accompanied us to the site and spent the next two hours panting in the shade while we painted and puttered, were happy about this part. Not long before we were done Fritz remembered that there was supposed to be water there, and was quite put out to find none. He was digging in the channel the stream had cut over the past week, wondering where the hell the water was.

Next we trench for the water pipe, make a bed for the cistern, move the cistern into place, and lay pipe!