Timezones! (I assume.) I diligently posted at least once each day for #mbaug photo challenge, and used that tag so I could easily collect the posts. MarsEdit shows 1 post (or more) per day. A Micro.Blog Search though shows something else — ‘incorrect’ dates. Timezones?
// @help
Another excellent read: Tracking Game: A Timber Creek K-9 Mystery by Margaret Mizushima. 📚
Two brutal murders, a menacing band of poachers, and a fearsome creature on the loose in the mountains plunge Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner Robo into a sinister vortex.
The fingers of the sea.
For Micro Monday let me recommend @GeneticJen who is writing a magificent must-read series on Women in tech history. So far:
- Margaret Hamilton
- Grace Hopper
- the ENIAC programmers
- Katherine Johnson
- the women of Bletchley Park
- Hedy Lamarr
As always with love it is inexplicable. I just love Spain. The 4 weeks we spent travelling there in 2015 were too brief. I also love waterfalls. The Fervenza do Ézaro waterfall is between Santiago de Compostela and Fisterre in Spain.
On 04 November 2012 we made a wonderful discovery: an empty section at Waikawa Beach. By mid-January 2013 it belonged to us and we’ve been living here 5 or 6 years now. That pile of bricks is where our house now stands.
I very much enjoyed Pretty Little Horses (an Abby Maxon mystery novel) by Annie Reed. 📚 Gripping ending kept me up late reading.
The copy editor needs a better eye though for quite a few trivial annoyances, such as missing words (esp. ‘the’) or ‘the' instead of ‘to’ etc.
Enjoyed Gators and Garters (A Miss Fortune Mystery Book 18) by Jana Deleon. 📚 This story felt more like hanging out with old friends. Didn’t have quite the zing of previous books.
Ida Belle’s wedding to Walter—but the caterer goes missing
Maybe the series has run its course?
Living here is great for my emotions. Today’s special boost: the black swan pair with the five thriving cygnets.
This is what Aotearoa New Zealand wants:
man who carried out mosque attacks in Christchurch on 15 March 2019 … sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of ever leaving jail. … pleaded guilty to 51 counts of murder, 40 of attempted murder, and one of a terrorist act.
In 2008 I visited Hawai’i briefly and took a guided tour up Mauna Kea to visit the observatories. I had no idea at the time that it is sacred indigenous land. I hope the indigenous people can overcome the plans to build more telescopes, desecrating their land.
International Day of the Dog 2020, you say. 🐶 Importing some old photos and just found this, appropriately. On High Street in Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand (2009, before the huge earthquake of 2011): Corgis on High, a public artwork. I hope they’re still there.
‘Yod dropping’! How do you pronounce emu?
the evolution of emu to EE-mooh was an example of yod dropping.
some words ending in that /u/ vowel in English (e.g. “blue”, “rude”) were once pronounced with a palatal — /rjud, blju/ — but are now not. This … is yod dropping"
Cool: Auckland Zoo welcomes first rhino birth in 20 years
The baby girl rhino was born on August 14 and is the first child of 30-year-old southern white rhino, Jamila.
… after a 16-month pregnancy, with the newborn tipping the scales at a healthy 65 kilograms.
A superb 8 minute doco: Wahine Warrior about a woman who learned to hunt to feed herself and kids and now is teaching other women.
Reinventing herself to help other wahine escape the same life of welfare and abuse, she enriches them with hunting skills to live off the land.
When Olive 🐈 was about 3 years old her owners, our next door neighbours, moved overseas and she came to live with us. Here she is in December 2003. I learned the value of persistence from Olive. She was relentless in pursuing her goals. It would drive me bonkers!
In early October 2011 we spent a weekend in Melbourne, Australia. It's a lovely city, as cities go. I loved this art work: Three Businessmen Who Brought Their Own Lunch: Batman, Swanston And Hoddle.
(Been looking for my Melbourne photos for days…)
Good news on Oshi’s eye 🐶: the ulcer is down to about 20% of the surface. Previous photo from a couple of weeks ago it was about 75%. The vet also commented that Oshi seems more with it than last time. We continue with eye drops. so glad he’s coming right.