Soo… we had our first real frost of the year. Mid-May seems a bit early. 🤷🏻♀️ Temperature bottomed out around -1.8C. Paddocks next door show the white coating.
I enjoyed reading A Cold Day for Murder: A Cozy Mystery (Lost in Alaska Book 1) by Leigh Mayberry and am embarking on the next in series.
Numerous language oddities (missing words, wrong words) but with no info about the author I’m thinking maybe it’s an Alaskan thing? 📚
Ordered Airtags. After a week or two they were picked up by the courier in China. Nothing, nothing, nothing. 5 days later they’re in Auckland. Probably be with me by noon Monday. Now to find or make a decent case.
Concerned when I watched The Flash S07E09. One of the bad-guys, giving people nightmares, had a fullface tattoo. The original screenshot was way too dark, but with huge overexposure it’s visible. Thing is, it very much resembles Māori tā moko. It’s cultural misappropriation!
Brain-explody: Comparing the world’s most well known locations with NZ’s latitude | WeatherWatch.
(Using latitude co-ordinates only)
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Well known international locations on a map of NZ.
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How close are you to the South Pole and Tropics compared to other well known places?
Already got back the results of my routine blood tests. All good apparently. ✔️
This is an excellent time of year for taking photos of the neighbour’s gorgeous horse.
The farmer next door runs hundreds of cows, and 4 sheep. Sometimes random animals also turn up — one year it was a Kunekune pig. This year it seems to be a deer. It looks fairly young.
I hoped the doctor would remove a small annoying sebaceous cyst for me today, but instead she checked it and made an appointment two weeks away for the removal. Then she sent me for routine blood tests because it’s been a while, apparently. Right next door, and only a brief wait.
Uh oh, I take that back. Now the 2016 MacBook Pro can’t load Amazon.com either…
Hmmm, currently my M1 MacBook Pro refuses to load Amazon.com despite extensive troubleshooting. 2016 MacBook Pro though has no problem with it. Still investigating… (I had thought I’d sell this old Mac, but now I’m not so sure…)
This was enjoyable 📚: Frightfully Fortune (Miss Fortune Mysteries Book 20)
a dead man gallops through the park on a black stallion and slides to a decapitated stop right in front of Swamp Team 3… another festival is about to be turned on its head
I think the series is fading.
I’m unhappy when I spot random bits of plastic, rope or other stuff on our beach, but we have nothing like this level of pollution: The Beach Where Lego Keeps Washing Up. Apparently studies have shown Lego in a marine environment could last 1300 years!
💪🏼 ♀ Motherhood on the Battlefield of Death | The Order of the Good Death:
For Mesoamerican people childbirth was considered a form of battle, therefore, women who gave birth were revered as heroes and great warriors.
On 05 May I posted about a neighbouring property for sale: Waikawa Beach For Sale: 146 Strathnaver Drive. When we drove past this afternoon it had a Sold sign on it. 5 days. Not bad.
Korean Banchan
Our International Breakfast this week was Korean Banchan — Steamed White Rice, Gyeran Jjim, Sigumchi Namul, Pan-Fried Tofu with Dipping Sauce, miso soup. We invited neighbours to share with us. It was very filling and tasty.
Predicted tracks for the LongMarch5B CZ-5B rocket body reentry are narrowing down. Our house is right under one of them (blue line). 09 May 2021 03:26 ± 2 hours UTC. So, that’ll be this afternoon for us.
The Aerospace Corporation tweet
Sunrise at about 7.00 this morning was a very intense red.
Pausing by the river to sit in the sun and fresh air for a bit.
I enjoyed Dying Bad (DI Sarah Quinn Mystery Book 3) by Maureen Carter. I especially like the way the lead character abbreviates and makes more or less oblique references to cliches and idioms. 📚
[unsatisfactory answer] ‘Ok.’ If you want a thing doing. ‘I’ll listen to the tape…’
