Miraz Jordan

When I planted flaxes beside the driveway I made a big mistake, not thinking about how massive they'd get. From time to time I trim them. Before and after shots of one bush.

We had a stack of (very heavy) concrete pavers that we kept when our rental property no longer needed them.

This week, in preparing our house for sale, I finally moved them into two spots: in front of the shed and in front of the tunnelhouse. 😅

Well, 7 years on Micro.Blog. My move in 2018 away from WordPress was a very good decision. I love this Micro.Blog community and the bloggers and creators who make it such an excellent place to blog. Thank you all.

For the last few years I've tried to post something at least once per day. 😁

Before we can sell our house there's a heap of tasks to do. In the last couple of days I've been trimming flaxes. The zendo has been revealed!

Trimming flaxes is very hard work! Cutting the leaves with a specialised flax knife is easy, but it's a lot of work to dispose of the waste.

Today we tried out the new restaurant Jamboree at Tatum, where I ate a pretty good:

Korean fried chicken
Served with steam rice, seaweed salad, pickel daikon.

The building and grounds have an interesting history.

The freshly renovated venue is a bit lacking in character, but the food was good.

Today was pizza day.

I mainly enjoyed the movie Good Grief:

follows a man mourning the loss of his husband as his two best friends help him on his journey of grief and acceptance.

There was a bit in the middle where it felt rather bogged down, but it was a pleasing exploration of love, friendship and difficulties.

In today's news — smoke is smoky. Large vegetation fire at Whangārei Heads triggers emergency response | RNZ News:

A large amount of smoke can be seen at Whangārei Heads. A resident in the area says it is smoky.

Over Christmas and New Year our fridge freezer started leaking water and storing up ice below the freezer drawer.

After we tried various troubleshooting suggestions without success, today the service person examined it and declared the drain blocked and frozen solid. Power off for a couple of days so it can thaw and drain.

Luckily we have an extra freezer in the garage, and a chilli bin with ice packs is looking after the vulnerable fridge items.

Today's grocery shop is cancelled. 😁

I enjoyed watching the kids movie Luck 🎥 :

Set in the Land of Luck, the story follows the unluckiest person, Sam Greenfield, as she must unite with a talking black cat named Bob to turn her luck around.

Favorite scene: Sam was chasing someone but had to wait for a whole fleet of cyclists to pass — on recumbent bikes.

Bob the cat was fun too.

With this dreary weather the Tararua Range can be quite moody.

Something I learned when we sold our Wellington house — there were a million clean-up things to do, so by and large I didn't work from a plan, but just grabbed an item and did it.

Tomorrow an estate agent is visiting for an initial talk so we're focussed on making the house look tidy and clean.

I really enjoyed The Six Triple Eight:

based on the 2019 magazine article "Fighting a Two-Front War", by Kevin M. Hymel, on the contributions of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, an all-Black and all-female battalion, in World War II.

Very moving and well worth watching. 🎥

Deb made shortbread biscuits today and they are delicious! The recipe for Shortbread Cookies says:

Homemade shortbread cookies trumps Walkers!!

And I think I agree! Walkers have been my favourites, but perhaps no longer. Yum!