Funds are tight this year so I’ll be closing down my separate lovewaikawabeach.nz blog as the domain name and Micro.Blog sub expire. Things I used to post over there will now go in a Waikawa Beach category on miraz.me .
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I made a big mistake this morning: with my phone beside the dog food bowls I played a podcast episode while I organised food. Sasha got a fit of the terrors. She was looking up and around, shaking, and couldn’t eat because she was so upset. I won’t do that again! 🐶 Old dogs…
🤯🤯🤯🤯 Aaaargh! Internet / computer networking is utterly beyond my capabilities. The more I read how-to’s and reviews of products the more my head explodes. I tried the free option of moving the modem closer to the dead spot. No go. Phone hotspotting may be the best option.
Russian Sweet Cheese Pancakes Syrniki
This weeks International Breakfast (at lunchtime) was Russian Sweet Cheese Pancakes Syrniki (Made with Curd Cheese), which we made with Ricotta, because that’s what we could buy.
Not bad for a first try.
Cool 4-minute video: Why Real Explosions Don’t Look Like Movie Explosions.
The whole article is an easy and interesting read, but especially:
I’m glad I didn’t give up 10 years ago to fit someone else’s idea of what a scientist should be like. And I’m glad people are finally starting to realise how important communication is, especially when it comes to science. I’m just sad it took a pandemic.
It seems late in the season for it, but we finally have Monarch Butterfly caterpillars on our Swan Plants.
On the property just past our neighbours there’s building work happening. I suspect they’re laying a concrete floor today. This is the first building in a new subdivision of six houses.
Excellent! Lucy Lawless bringing My Life Is Murder local spin-off to TVNZ
a contemporary mystery drama with a compelling female lead who is passionate about two things: discovering the secrets and hidden agendas behind the most baffling of crimes and perfecting her sourdough.
We watched the amazing and very moving documentary Sherpa:
explores some of the Sherpa culture and their spiritual relationship with [Everest], as well as the heavy work and risks Sherpas take in making multiple ascents to … make the climb possible for foreign climbers.
This very long read is riveting and thought-provoking: Deliverance From 27,000 Feet.
5 Sherpas surrounded the frozen corpse. They swung axes at the body’s edges, trying to pry it from its icy tomb. They knocked chunks of snow from the body … pieces skittered down the mountain.
Yesterday Waikawa Beach was under a Beach and Marine Threat Warning, while parts of the northeast of Aotearoa New Zealand were under a Tsunami Warning.
Still, this Tsunami Alert sign popped up at the main entrance to the beach.
I’ve signed up for a free crossword puzzle creating class as mentioned at Puzzle 25: Animal Crackers. Not until April, but should be interesting.
At the start of Fortune Funhouse (Miss Fortune Mysteries Book 19) by Jana DeLeon I thought some plot tropes were wearing thin. However, this proved another enjoyable read with a tricky solution. 📚
a man is murdered in the funhouse and Emmaline LeBlanc is knocked unconscious
My neighbour took this photo of Sasha and Oshi. 🐶
This map from RadioNZ shows better where the three quakes have been. We only felt the first, but there are tsunami and coastal inundation warnings for almost the whole country from the later two.
Shaky times: the first earthquake around 0230 today was offshore New Zealand. Since then though have been two more huge earthquakes much further away but still in our region, by the Kermadecs. There are tsunami warnings along northern and eastern coasts. Map
That far away shake certainly woke us all up! It started with long light shaking then wound up to long strong shaking. In the morning I need to check the cupboards in case things fell over. Nearly got out of bed for it!
A power cut last week led our Belling 60cm Freestanding Double Oven to misbehave: clock blinked, hob worked, top oven worked. The bottom oven though wouldn’t do anything. Troubleshooting section of the manual led us to an electrician … who came out and set the clock time. 😫
