Yesterday I hiked Sledge Track, an hour’s drive away. I found it harder than the claimed “easy walk”, doing the 5 Km out-and-back to the Swing Bridge in 2 hours, plus several rests. It’s a shady walk through bush beside a river. I’d do it again.
Terrible photo, but it was what I could get. I thought 2 rabbits were playing in the lane way ahead of me. Then I realised one was too long in the body, had something in its mouth, wasn’t moving like a rabbit. I think it was a ferret, a terrible pest in Aotearoa New Zealand.
And another view of the day before sunrise.
Look at this gorgeous morning — 20 minutes before sunrise.
Bored now.
My little buddy Leo. 🐈
Applescript to tidy Black Ink crossword app windows:
tell application "Black Ink"
set baseFrame to bounds of window 1
repeat with thisWindow in windows
set bounds of thisWindow to baseFrame
end repeat
end tell
-- script by Daniel Jalkut, 15 January 2023
Just one reason @danielpunkass is a favourite app developer — I emailed asking for a way to tidy up Black Ink crossword windows scattered all over my screen. Minutes later Daniel sent a great Applescript solution. 😀
After a few hours the baling machine comes along, sweeps up the cut grass, then rolls it into big round bales, wraps them up and poops them out every couple of hundred metres.
Today the farmer next door was spinning the mowed grass into piles ready for baling.
As usual I was concerned when I went out that Sasha would be stressed. I came home to this! 🐶💤
I’m so ‘something’ that my neighbour has now seen the extremely cryptic and Nationally Critical Matuku-hūrepo, Australasian Bittern at our local lake 3 times, yet I haven’t seen it even once. She gave me permission to post her 2 iPhone photos from a couple of days ago. 🐦
This article is chock full of useful info for all users: The real secrets of iOS and accessibility.
The farmer next door is mowing today.
I missed the focus on this but still wanted to post this adult and two baby Oystercatchers. 🐦
Heh, followed a link on a webpage to this address: https://b-ok.cc (I’ve added invisible characters to ‘break’ it here) and got to this FBI Seized notice.
Whew, I’ve struggled my way through Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Translated (in 1862) by George Long. The language is dense so it’s hard going. I’d love to see a modern feminist translation. I’ve clipped a number of pithy remarks though. 📚
This post from 11 January 2022 took me by surprise today:
It’s a year since I ordered my M1 MacBook Pro.
I was just thinking yesterday how much I love this Mac. 2 years on and battery life is still phenomenal.
This rather ruffled looking baby bird stumbled across the deck and took refuge in the passionfruit. 🐦
These days when Sasha eats she spreads biscuits all over the floor. 🐶
Just found this printed photo in the archives. When I was a teen back in the late 60’s and early 70s I begged my parents to get us a Miniature Poodle. This was Andre. Of course I was in charge of walks etc. 🐶
