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. 🐦
It’s duckling season. 😀
One reason I’m looking forward to an extremely high Covid vaccination rate in Aotearoa New Zealand is so the flood of [everything] encouraging people to get vaccinated can stop. So many articles, posts, memes, campaigns, news reports, ads, emails etc etc etc.
Mysteries featuring black lesbians, with a touch of romance, are few and far between. Smoke Before Fire by A.M. McKnight 📚
I give this developing author a pass on the many typos, but the price should be half what it is on a lightweight book. Considering reading more by McKnight.
Yay, Apple are finally thinking about shipping me the iPhone I ordered a month ago. Selling some shares to cover the cost. Bought Applecare for this one too since it’s both so expensive and so droppable.
Today I was rung by someone from LINZ who asked if I could put the broken marker post I reported yesterday back in the ground.
When I dug into the hole I could see the post had been snapped off. There is a building site opposite and I suspect a truck ran it over.
Way back in February 2017 I noticed small white posts appearing around the place — as in the background of this selfie. The closeup shows more of the post. Turned out they are Geodetic Survey Marker indicator posts. Today I reported one that had come adrift.
Another excellent read: What They Knew: (Detective Clare Mackay 4) by Marion Todd 📚:
there’s a strong chance that there’s a killer on the loose in St Andrews.
Clare and her team will have to look past the obvious conclusions and delve deeper into the lives of the victims
3 am: Sasha 🐶, on my bed: I need to go out … Ohh noo, it’s raining out there … back on the bed instead. I’m awake, read, settle back to sleep at 4 am.
4.01 am: Sasha 🐶, on my bed: I really need to go out. I go out, in the rain, to guide her. Never did get back to sleep. 🥱🥱
Heh: Bird of the Year: Bats join the competition
Including the mammals in the Bird of the Year competition is certainly setting the bat amongst the pigeons, so to speak
The long-tailed bat, pekapeka-tou-roa, is one of two native bat species in New Zealand