Took my car through the carwash for what may be the first time in the 5 or 6 years I’ve owned it. The carwash and blow dry led me to the interesting discovery that one of the rear windows doesn’t go all the way up. The button will lower it but not raise it at all. 😒
Researchers explored Māori storytelling in spoken word, weaving and carving and found:
Polynesian narratives … include voyaging into Antarctic waters by Hui Te Rangiora … and his crew on the vessel Te Ivi o Atea, likely in the early seventh century
Once I finally got myself and the correct gear (nearly left the paddle behind) out on the river I really enjoyed it. I’d forgotten how serene it can be to paddle or float on a quiet river on a sunny day. My new neoprene gloves were excellent too.
I really have been meaning to take my kayak out again and today’s weather leaves me with no excuse. I see it’s been almost exactly a year since I last took it out. No wonder I’m finding it hard to actually organise myself.
Blue beach morning.
Ordered a tank of water as our rainwater tank is worryingly low. We need 30mm rain every week to cover our needs and forecast rain just keeps on not happening. Or decent rain is forecast and we get a dribble. Long-range forecast is for normal or drier than normal too. 💧
First time in my life, I cleaned my bike chain. It’s a messy business, but I think it went OK. 🚴🏼
Ooooh, multiple timers! Yay!
I use Siri quite a lot — on-device processing should be a big help. Siri quite often can’t help me when I’m out and about round here because of poor cellphone coverage.
Whew, sitting up in bed watching the WWDC 2021 Keynote. Sasha the dog is asleep on the bed. I’m realising just how very pongy she is‼️ 👃🏼Good thing the dogs are off to the groomers in a couple of days! 🐶
The 5 am start for the WWDC 2021 keynote is always a challenge. 🥱
We had an unusual event at Waikawa Beach this weekend: the launch of a Little Free Library created by a couple of members of the community. Here’s Anja giving a speech before cutting the ribbon. And that’s the back of me as I introduced Anja to the 40 or 50 folks who attended. 📚
Well, that was an interesting experiment. M1 MacBook Pro. I exported my Health data from iPhone. Then I opened the 1.7GB(!!!!) XML file into BBEdit. It took less than a minute to open and I can scroll up and down the 5,504,661 lines as though it’s some tiny daily diary entry.
A sea misty morning at the beach today.
This week’s delicious International Breakfast was Mandazi African Donuts. Although deep fried, they weren’t oily or greasy. They were perfect, in fact. Would be ideal if you invite folks for afternoon tea. Just prepare ahead of time as the dough has to rest for an hour.
My friend Anne writes cogently, coherently and interestingly about the Miss Silver mysteries by Patricia Wentworth. Some smart lit crit in there, and a most excellent quote from one about Hillary’s lunch. I wonder if I should try the books? I don’t much care for old-timey stuff…
Whew! A busy day doing various tasks for our local Waikawa Beach Ratepayers Association: emails, blog posts, some admin stuff, update the list of members, liaise with the Horowhenua District Council about a dumped trampoline — perfect for a cool, rainy day.
As I watch The Path to Happiness: What Chinese Philosophy Teaches us about the Good Life and learn about so many male thinkers I have a nagging wondering about how women might have framed differing approaches to the world. Did those men cook, clean, raise children?
Ha ha ha ha ha… The Mitchells vs. the Machines movie was weird, hilarious, bizarre, moving. I loved all the, I don’t even know what to call them, tech jokes, Apple winks, meme jokes. Very funny!
a dysfunctional family saves Earth from a robot uprising while on a road trip.
Look who I found while weeding. I think it must be a Brown Tree frog - Litoria ewingii:
They all have a white stripe along the jawline from the armpit, to at least, below the eye and sometimes to the end of the snout.
I didn’t think to turn it upside down. It was pretty small.
