Enjoyed, in spite of numerous typos: Unknown Victim (Gina Santoro Mysteries Book 1) by Kay Hadashi. 📚
Rookie Police Officer Gina Santoro … makes a career change … Now working in landscape management, she finds … a dead body on her front porch.
Hawai’i a bonus.
Last night I met that rare and elusive beast, 8 hours good sleep. 😴 It’s life-changing! 💪🏼
Tonight we visited our weekender neighbours. Amy, the vet assistant, brought Doodlebug, the rescue guinea pig to the beach for a holiday. I got a “wheek”. 😀 // @jean
Oh my! ❤️🔥Katharine Hepburn as a boy in 1935’s Sylvia Scarlett 🎥:
as she chops off her hair she declares, “I won’t be a girl. I won’t be weak, and I won’t be silly. I’ll be a boy, and rough, and hard. I won’t care what I do! Don’t worry, I’m ready for anything!”
Some folks are so desperate to get their vehicles onto the beach they’ll even drive through a high tide.
Well, today I achieved variety, with breakfast anyway. Someone accidentally switched the locations of ground chilli and cinnamon in the pantry and I didn’t look closely. Chilli on porridge is … interesting. 😆
This morning we’re heading out to a Waikanae Estuary Bird Tour. It’s only a 40 minute drive south.
Mik will show you where to find roosting shags, the oyster-catches, scaup, dabchicks, herons, banded dotterels, terns and many other species that may be on display.
I wasn’t entirely sure about Close to Her (Detective Sarah Burke mystery and suspense Book 1) by Elizabeth Gunn at first. Then I loved it and am ready to read more. 📚
Today I kayaked 2 Km upriver. It was sunny and peaceful. After watching some ‘how to paddle’ videos I think my paddling technique has improved a little. Never gone so far before. Tired now! 🛶
I’m learning a heap of useful info from the free videos from The Cornell Lab Bird Academy. Here’s one example: Inside Birding: Size & Shape.
If you want to learn more about birds this is great stuff! 🐦
I have a huge job ahead of me over the next unknown amount of time. I’ve been very poor at labelling the photos in my Apple Photos.app collection. I’ve now set up a Smart Album, just for last year to start with, and will work away on it a few images at a time. 📷
With temps in the high 20sC we took the for us unusual step of going down to the beach for a “swim”. For me that means jumping over waves. Our beach is so shallow we waded out maybe 30 metres or more and were still only thigh deep. Pretty splendid really.
It was a perfect sunset last night. I found I could even see the Makara Wind Farm (via binoculars) some 100 Km away. In the third photo most of the land on the horizon is the South Island or islands in Cook Strait.
I love that BBEdit can compare documents and I can selectively copy text between windows.
I have a lot to learn about taking photos of shags in trees. Just look at this dork though! 😆 🐦 Try zooming in.
This is for @Cheri. Deb and I both looked at this Facebook Post and couldn’t figure out at first why someone wanted to give away half a bathroom sponge…
[@Miraz](https://micro.blog/Miraz) I enjoy Britishisms, but eating a sponge sounds so bizarre to American ears!
I don’t post my daily selfies, but did on 01 January 2021. So here’s my New Year’s Day 2022 selfie. 😀 On the beach at dawn, waiting for sunrise to see in the new year.
I don’t do reviews, resolutions or plans these days — not sure I ever did really anyway. But this evening the thought popped into my head that I should make sure 2022 includes variety — it’s so easy to end up in a rut. So I guess that’s my word for 2022. Keep changing things up.
Every year a local couple mount a huge display of Christmas Lights on their house. The lights tell a story as Santa and elves move around delivering presents. Now others are putting up displays of lights too, like the tree at the village entrance. It’s fun to visit after dark.
