On the way home one of my favourite things about living in the country: I had to stop and wait for a herd of cows to cross the road. Paddock on one side; milking shed on the other. Actually, the cow cockie stopped the cows and let me pass. I would have been just as happy to wait.
My dentist office has this handy X-ray machine stowed against the wall.
Today I had a crown put on one tooth — a very quick visit, with only a little discomfort from this second part of the procedure.
Apart from my normal backup external hard drive, I’ve accumulated 4 drives over the years which contain assorted uncatalogued stuff, often duplicated. Arrrgh! 😫 I want to use one to archive most of the stuff from my old MacBook Pro.
Now using ls -aR > file.txt to help.
Ferries cross the notorious waters of Cook Strait between Aotearoa New Zealand’s North and South Islands. In 1978 at age 15 Meda McKenzie swam across in 12 hours. Her brother:
The amount of energy you use as a swimmer is astronomical … [because you can’t stop and rest]
This is not the right time of year (🌞😎) to find muddy things in Aotearoa New Zealand, so for today’s photo prompt this portion of Mud Cake will have to do.
Unfortunately people bring trail bikes and quad bikes onto the beach and they like to do ‘donuts’. It seems the sand scarabs have been getting ideas…
It takes ages but I’ve got time… I like setting up a new Mac afresh as it gives me the chance to reevaluate settings and apps, and even what files I need. Do I really need work I did in 2010 at my fingertips, or could it just be archived? Going minimal…
Ricotta Pancakes
Inspired by @flish cooking meals from different countries and wanting a weekly ‘date’ with Deb, we’re having an International Breakfast together once a week. Today we enjoyed Italian Ricotta Pancakes which were light and tasty. We added lemon juice. We were ‘in Florence’ this morning.
This year is … different. I haven’t seen or heard a frog in our garden for a while. A Southern Bell Frog, Litoria raniformis, would often jump out from something when I was gardening or weedeating or shifting stuff around. Where are they all this year? I hope they return.
After exhausting myself washing down the east side of our house I was craving a strong brew of gunpowder green tea.
Clean wall on the left half and dirty on the right.
“Sport" is pretty much the antonym of “Miraz”, but once in a while I take my kayak a little way up Waikawa Stream. That’s the closest I ever get to sport.
It’s hilarious that my body shape happens to make me look ‘sporty’ so people often make wrong assumptions about me.
I was worried I’d been too heavy handed with the marmite on my sandwich, but it worked out OK in the end. White bread with butter, marmite, lettuce (home grown), tomatoes (home grown), parsley (home grown), ham and cream cheese.
Given how much time it spends on my lap, and the care and attention I lavish on it, I think it’s fair to claim my MacBook Pro as one of my most treasured pets.
The new 13” MacBook Pro with M1 processor arrived this morning! How clean the screen is!
I’ve been using the Atkinson Hyperlegible Font | Braille Institute for a while now and really like it:
it focuses on letterform distinction to increase character recognition, ultimately improving readability. We are making it free for anyone to use!
A new mid-winter public holiday for Aotearoa New Zealand: Matariki holiday date announced:
The first annual Matariki public holiday will be celebrated on Friday, June 24, 2022
The reappearance of the Matariki stars in our sky each year marks the beginning of a new year
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I’m finding Season 2 of Batwoman much less gross than Season 1 and am enjoying the play of attitudes towards an ordinary parolee vs superhero. I like the notion that we can all be superheroes if we want to and get a bit of help.
Two sides of the stick. This fine girl was on our front door at dawn. Quite long — I didn’t measure, but perhaps a hand span or length.
My Japanese Quail are fantastic layers. With at least 12 hours of daylight they each lay one egg every day. Impossible to get 2 birds and 2 eggs in one photo, so this post has 3 ‘layers’ of photo. 😀
This morning’s inversion layer looked pretty good moments before sunrise.
Can animals really predict earthquakes?
data showed that the animals were unusually restless hours (up to 20 hours!) before earthquakes occurred and the closer the animals were to the epicentre of the earthquake, the earlier they started behaving strangely.
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