Interesting: Trying to Keep Aging Neurons Healthy and Growing:
That set me on a tentative and then growing effort to become creative in the ways I approached ordinary elements of my daily living. Now this was something quite different.
Unknown Baby Girl, a short story by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, is very powerful. As always from this author, a superbly written story. Read for free before 11 April 2022. 📚
I enjoyed These Little Lies (Detective Inspector Siv Drummond Book 1) by Gretta Mulrooney 📚. A new police procedural series from a British author I like:
Detective Inspector Siv Drummond is looking for a fresh start. What she gets is two dead bodies.
Deb, leaving for work, told me to get out of bed and look at the sunrise. it was worth it. 😎
Deb and I enjoyed Dream Horse 🎬 :
the true story of Dream Alliance, an unlikely race horse bred by Welsh bartender Jan Vokes. With very little money and no experience, Jan convinces her neighbours to chip in their earnings … The group’s investment pays off…
I like to do my beach walks at dawn, when the sun just catches the tips of the waves.
We see some excellent sights from our lounge window, like the two Air Force Hercules aircraft that just flew past really low. Air Force marks 85 years of service to New Zealand.
Another in a series I enjoy: Close to Death by Elizabeth Gunn 📚.
Detective Sarah Burke is called out to a mass shooting in a quiet residential street … it’s nothing she can’t handle.
That’s until one of the ‘dead’ bodies wakes up. At least now Sarah has a suspect.
Scenes from this morning’s dawn walk.
A hard but powerful read: This is How You Died | The Order of the Good Death:
A physician who worked on the frontline during the Covid-19 pandemic addresses an auditorium she imagines is full of her patients who died.
My first attempt at a Chocolate Mini Loaf Cake, which thought it was maybe a volcano! Tasted good though!
I can’t believe how many times I need to correct a Post or Reply after publishing. Thank you so much @manton for making it easy to do that! 🙌🏼
A big walk for Sasha 🐶 these days is to go all the way to the speedsigns, 500 metres away. On our early morning walk today we rounded a bend in the road to see this beautifully lit scene. Behind those dunes is the sea.
Ready for some feelgood, with dogs?
the dogs had to learn about 80 new behaviors before they [could] get their paws on the wheel of an actual car. … little things … like desensitising them to seatbelts …
The day the dogs drove. Video: Driving Dogs. Skip to 3 mins on vid 2. 🐶
An even better morning display today at 0644: low in the eastern sky a crescent Moon, right beside mighty Jupiter. Arrayed above them, Venus, Saturn and Mars. My photos don’t do them justice. ☽🪐
To keep an eye on the sky, Stellarium Web Online Star Map is very useful.
This is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s smallest birds, often heard but seldom seen. I got lucky a few months back. Riroriro, Grey Warbler 🐦 :
Length: 11 cm; Weight: 5.5 - 6.5 grams
I had Keen shoes that were new many years ago, were demoted to dog walking several years ago and finally to gardening. This year they fell to bits. For gardening I’ve now replaced them with Hard Yakka Women’s 3056 work boots. They should be great, but I don’t want to dirty them!
This is bizarre: it’s not quite 5 am, pitch dark and I’ve been hearing a loud motorbike roaring around for 5 minutes or more. They may be on the beach — we hear it clearly from here — but why would someone be hooning on the beach in the dark? I guess dawn will reveal all. 🏍
I had low expectations for what turned out to be an excellent book. Murder on Port Meadow (Oxford Dog Walker Crime Thrillers Book 1) by Annie Dalton with Maria Dalton 📚 drew me in immediately and held me engrossed to the end. I’ve bought Book 2.
Has Apple Maps always had this? Just today I discovered Guides, and that I can add places to a Guide I’ve created. Very handy for a trip to Palmerston North. It syncs from my Mac to my iPhone too. Now, if only it would sync to the car’s GPS…
