Wow. A word puzzle led me to discover Yma Sumac, 1932-2008, a Peruvian singer with a range of at least four and a half octaves. Listen to Yma Sumac sings Queen of the Night and Clair de Lune. I’d never heard of her before.
My Granny Smith Apple tree is covered in blossom. That’s good for the bees. 🐝
macOS Monterey Day. Version 12.0.1. 🎉
I like this Wind Turbine Wall idea:
Designed to be as aesthetically pleasing as it is functional, this “kinetic wall” is made up of an array of rotary blades that spin individually, driving a mini generator that creates electricity.
I love TextExpander. Used it for years. Setting up a new email address for the local Association. I type the trigger and now I can choose the old email address or the new. This is one of my most essential apps.
Apple Mail is OK, but I’ve sent emails from the wrong account because Mail chose the sender on my behalf. I need to be more in charge. This tip helps:
select a ‘dummy’ account for the default ‘from’ account, then disable that account
Source: Apple mail changing my ‘From:’ sender account
Dumb Mail!
A brilliant book by a favourite author: Unbreakable by Cari Hunter. 📚
Dr. Grace Kendal never stands a chance. The injured woman comes out of nowhere, bleeding heavily and holding a gun. Compelled to help her, Grace is dragged into Elin Breckenridge’s nightmare.
Short on sleep this morning, so my brain cells are groggy. Not convenient when I have a committee meeting for Waikawa Beach Ratepayers Association to attend, with a long agenda.
I’m slowly learning that as I get older my body is less able to handle sugar. At a friend’s birthday party last night I drank ~500 mls of Bundaberg Lemon Lime & Bitters. Then I was still awake at midnight. 😒 It didn’t help that I’m reading a great book just now…
Is this new in Find My? When I checked on Deb’s progress as she drove home last night I got a Live view where the blue dot moved in real time. Forgive the shaky camera please.
Darn it! Spent ages hunting for the ‘right’ sleeve for my new iPhone 13 Pro Max. Recalled years ago I had a nice sleeve from Pack and Smooch so ordered this beauty.
Then they emailed: NZ Post won’t accept it, so I had to cancel. 😒
Cannot find what I want in NZ.
I need to listen again to this invaluable 45 minute podcast: You Can’t Always Want What You Like
why our brains don’t encourage us to do things that we know we’ll enjoy … strategies to help us do more of the activities that will result in happier and healthier lives.
Five quail eggs in a box. Four of them, as usual, weigh 11 grams. The other one weighs 15 grams! Last time this happened the larger one was a double-yolker. 🐦
Sunset / moonrise straight out of the iPhone. 3x telephoto.
The other thing to arrive in the mail today was my new iPhone 13 Pro Max (blue). Setting it up between various other activities…
This was one of two good things to arrive in the mail this morning: Letter advising “no evidence of breast cancer” after a recent routine mammogram.
I want to include this photo in a (mainly birds 🤓) quiz. Trying to decide which one of these military helicopters it is. Hmmm, I’m thinking SH-2G(I) Seasprite.
Another excellent read from a favourite author: Fear on the Fens: (DI Nikki Galena Series Book 13) by Joy Ellis 📚
[they] must find a man who’s been missing for two decades and unravel the painful past of a broken family before anyone else dies.
… with their hands tied …
The dogs don’t like it when the grass in the dog yard gets too long. 🐶 It must tickle their bottoms or something and then they poop on the water tank, which I don’t want them to do. So it was time to tackle the long grass with the weedeater before today’s rain. Before; after.
I spotted this small yellowish-green bird on a flax spear but couldn’t make out what it was. I took a couple of photos through the window, but as soon as I opened the door for a better look it flew off. Greenfinch. 🐦
