Our visiting friends have now left on the next stage of their motorcycle tour. These two bikes looked pretty good in our garage though.
After the tide had gone down and the heavy rain stopped my friend with the tractor took the old picnic table onto the beach and along to where the south track off Reay Mackay Grove meets the sand. We put the table in place, but it needs a little levelling tomorrow. Job done 👍
We inherited a picnic table but never use it — we have another better one. A neighbour has an ancient tractor he uses to take his boat to the beach. Today he loaded the table (and me) on the tractor tray so we can put it by the beach for the public. High tide thwarted us though…
Phew, short on sleep, and with visiting friends to consider, I forgot to take a suitable photo of Lake Papaitonga when we had a brief walk there today. It was pretty in the bush and the view over the lake was pleasant. A nice 20 minute walk.
Whew, with visitors arriving shortly, my room has had its most thorough clean in ages. I even pulled furniture out to vacuum and wet mop behind. And I cleaned the insides of the windows! (Outsides are high and tricky.) Plus all my usual junk has been put away. Quite nice really.
Ahh, photos… Here’s one reason the food at Ha’atafu Resort in Tonga was fabulous: staff caught fresh fish in the morning. We all ate together at a long table at 7 pm. The owners even made me special versions of the food because of my allergy to onion, spring onion and chives.
I had totally misremembered this photo taken in 2012 at Ha’atafu Resort in Tonga. This may be the best solution for avoiding screen glare and device shutdown while reading in the sun. 😀 📚
If travel ever happens again, Ha’atafu Resort is fabulous — a dozen guests, amazing food.
Folks, @cheri’s Kat Voyzey series is one of my favourites and now there’s the Kat Voyzey Flash Sale. The first book is even free!
a coworker is murdered at a Seattle hospital, an unlikely sleuth emerges from the HR department. Kat Voyzey won’t rest until she gets justice
Here are Oshi and Sasha after grooming. Oshi wasn’t being cooperative again. Check out the before. 🐶
With my computer screen full of unwanted horizontal lines, it’s hard to see photos properly. However, if you think this tree is out of focus, it’s not. It’s a NZ native called a Rimu.
rimu has weeping branchlets, but these become long, drooping branches when the tree matures.
Yesterday the Kohitere Forest walk fitted perfectly into my afternoon. Finding the address to start from was super hard: it’s on the left a few metres past the Makahika Outdoor Pursuit Centre at 865 Gladstone Road, Levin. 6.57 Km walk, ~1.75 hours. A mix of pines and native trees.
On today’s agenda: getting a filling in a top left tooth and part one of a crown at top right, at the back. 🦷 $$$$ 🥵 Ugh, visits to the dentist get harder every time.
Near the top of the hill I have a phone signal. Here I turn around whether I reached the top or not. 1 hour back to the car after I’ve had lunch. Not a bad lunch spot.
I want user-centred guides to trails: you want a 1 hour easy walk? Try Walk X. A steep walk needing superfit? Try Walk Q. Don’t have a mountain bike? Here are the bike trails for you…
Probably anyone old enough to remember computer manuals will recall the earliest versions: File menu - New, makes a new doc; Save, saves the doc; Open, opens the doc etc etc. Useless as a manual. My attempts to find bike rides and walks are meeting the same block: About Walk A…
Thanks to all for the affirmations on my Micro.Blog third anniversary. 😊 This is truly a wonderful community and my decision to move my blogging here was indeed the right one. Thanks for reading.
Apparently this is my 3 year anniversary of posting on Micro.Blog. What a good choice that was! Thanks On This Day for the clue. // @cleverdevil
A while back the Council erected (needless and incorrect) speed signs nearby then removed the signs but left the posts. Now some wag has added a smiley face to one and an intriguing clock face to the other. The clock face shows a map of the world and the words “Tick Tock”.
Whew. That 20 minute drive home from the supermarket took me around 4.25 hours thanks to the road being closed. I spent a chunk of the time in the Library after turning back to Levin. After the road opened it took me about 1.25 hours because traffic was all backed up.