Hey @macgenie Pheromones Defeat Death Ray! was an excellent episode of Voyager Revisited. I’m not sure I fully appreciated Bride of Chaotica when I watched it and may not have seen it twice. I’ll remedy that soon. 😀
Given up on trying to sleep while the house shakes and the wind roars. I was having weird dreams when I did sleep anyway. Trembling dogs on the bed with me. Spring storms!
Heh, watching (and laughing heaps) the black comedy Avenue 5 📺:
On board the interplanetary cruise ship a momentary loss of artificial gravity … sends the vessel a few degrees off course. It’s estimated it will take the ship 3 years to return to Earth
It stars Hugh Laurie.
Apparently today’s grooming session has caused Sasha to feel a little blurry. 🐶
Decades ago mum mentioned something from her childhood called a “flower lee pone”. She couldn’t recall more about it. ❓❓Mystery solved today courtesy of a crossword: “flower Epergne”:
An epergne may be used … as a designer object to hold candles, flowers or ornaments
Tomorrow is grooming day for the dogs so today Oshi and Sasha had their ears and tail brushed. ‘Before’ photo. 🐶
It is an absolute mystery to me why I read Driftwood and Death (Innisstead Sands Cozy Mysteries Book 1) to the end and why I didn’t get my money back. Unbelievably silly! 📚
No author info to be found — a 10 year old perhaps?
Last night we enjoyed Netflix ☛ Enola Holmes: 🎬
…the youngest sibling in the famous Holmes family. … a free-wheeling, strong-willed, and boundary-pushing young woman … extremely intelligent, observant, and insightful, and she defies the social norms for women of the time.
We visited Wellington for a friend’s birthday brunch. One thing I do not miss at all is battling the wind to simply make progress walking along the street.
Grrr, logic failure! For the last two weeks I’ve been gradually moving dog meal times in readiness for Sunday’s change to Daylight Savings Time. We’ll put the clocks forward 1 hour. I’ve been moving their mealtimes in the other direction. 🕒 🤯
Pizza for lunch!
The river at the footbridge was muddy, full and swiftly flowing after the last few days rain in the hills. Volume up for the birds.
So cool! Track tohorā southern right whales on their journeys.
this particular population of tohorā have recovered well from whaling from the early 1800s when numbers plummeted to as low as 40 from an estimated 30,000. By 2009, the population had recovered to around 2000.
Cool: The Loop of Life coffin
is grown from mycelium, the root network of mushrooms. … hay or hemp is placed in a wooden box-shaped mold. Fungus is added, and watered … Within a week you have a solid box that … breaks down quickly and stimulates the decomposition of the body
Darn it, I finished reading Hanging Falls: A Timber Creek K-9 Mystery by Margaret Mizushima. 📚
An excellent read!
Sometimes I hate reading a really good book such as Hanging Falls: A Timber Creek K-9 Mystery by Margaret Mizushima. 📚
The more I read, the closer I am to finishing… Then what?
officer Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner Robo stumble upon a body floating at the edge of a lake.
Clockwork quail. In 2018 and 2019 my Coturnix quail laid their first egg for the season on 21 September. Today, 21 September 2020, they kept the trend going.
They require 12 hours of daylight to lay, which we achieved yesterday with equilux. Clever girls! 🐦
If I were in a different country I might worry… A military helicopter came from the north (where the base is) did a slow circuit north of the village then went away. Then it came back, did two slow, low laps of our house, then went away again. Weird.
I couldn’t really get close enough and only had my iPhone with me, but that white speck around middle photo is a Royal Spoonbill. So glad to see it as I thought perhaps the spoonbills had abandoned us.
Our View of Space Is Becoming Blurrier
the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope … sits in the Atacama desert [which] has warmed by 1.5 °C over the last four decades.
this causes turbulence within the dome, which degrades the image quality and causes blurring.