Somehow the big load of firewood looks pretty small once it’s stacked in the firewood shed. We bought from the usual place, but this might be some of the best we’ve ever had. 🔥
A former MP tells: I wake in the night shaking
We can argue that women should be safe to walk streets at night, go into men’s hotel rooms, visit doctors, without fear of being sexually assaulted, but that’s never going to happen. There will always be sexual predators
My job for this afternoon and tomorrow is to store 4 cubic metres of firewood — a mix of pine, macrocarpa and douglas fir — in the firewood shed. Half an hour today got about a third of it. The rest tomorrow.
This praying mantis was on the garage door today. Apparently this isn’t the native mantis, but an invasive South African mantis. 🐜
Ugh, this wind drives me crazy. Mid-40s Kph speed, and gusts up to as much as 79 Kph! The noise alone is annoying, and then the house shakes. Tomorrow’s forecast has more of the same. 💨
This year I’ve read and pretty much enjoyed the Nichelle Clarke Crime Thrillers, books 1 to 6, by Lyndee Walker. 📚 They had their moments though and I took a few breaks during reading. Each story was different but they felt a little ‘samey’. The shoes annoyed me heaps.
I love so much that I can write text on my Mac, copy, and then paste on my iPhone without any other steps in the middle. Makes it so much easier to add a photo to Micro.Blog on my phone, sort out the text on a real computer, and then finish posting from the phone. 💗
Over the last few weeks I’ve watched Seasons 1 to 3 of One Day at a Time (2017 TV series). 📺 I’ve really enjoyed it. It’s been funny and touching. I’ve loved getting to see affirming stories about a teenage lesbian and her “Sydnificant” Other, and a non-white family. 👍
Less than 2mm when they hatch, sunfish can grow to more than three metres long, four metres tall and weigh over 2,000kg, which is roughly equivalent to a large hippo … they have the biggest growth increase of any animal. They increase in weight 600 million times.
ROFLMAO 🤣: Breaking: there is one new case of a disgraced politician in New Zealand. Toby Manhire writes hilariously on our rash of politicians in disgrace. Meanwhile, in Covid-19 news: we have no community transmission; new cases now come solely from newly arrived folks.
At sunset the the horses come out to play on the beach.
My wishlist for Micro.Blog:
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a way to load new posts but keep my place in the timeline. Every morning I have endless scrolling to see what folks posted overnight.
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default to the aspect ratio of an included photo, not to square.
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let the Mac app upload videos and sound files.
The high-pitched Riroriro or Grey Warbler at start and end, ducks and magpies. Sorry about the background which is either or both of slight wind and the nearby sea. 🐦 I’ve never actually seen a Riroriro as far as I know — only heard them.
The weather forecaster reminded us that it snowed on 15 August 2011 in Wellington (extremely rare). We lived in Wellington then, at the top of Mt Victoria. This was the view from the lounge to the south (over Cook Strait) that day.
Next step on the Kindle: find the books I have read and remove from the device. Then finish or remove the books I’ve read only part of. Then start the unstarted books. Some are worthy books I theoretically want to read, but maybe I don’t really… 📚
My Kindle’s a mess. My bad habit is to start a sample book and just stop in the middle because I don’t like the book. Or I read to the end and am unsure if I want to buy the book. Some samples I haven’t even started. The samples accumulate like dust. Today I deleted all samples.
This Micro Monday I suggest @garciabuxton , Catholic, wife, mom, editrix. Ex-newsperson. Californian by birth, Midwesterner by choice. Sometimes posts Gratuitous Kitten Photos.
So thrilled to have @jsonbecker on board at @Custom . 😁 He’s underway adding useful info for Plug-In developers! Building Micro.blog Custom Themes That Work with Plug-ins
The beach was so calm when we went down just after sunrise. I took a brief video looking southwest to Kāpiti Island and another looking north to Mt Ruapehu. Note the sun just touching the waves.
Was outside early and spotted Jupiter and Saturn in the west. Also took this photo (L to R) of Pleiades, Taurus, Venus, Orion, Sirius. Orion’s belt by tip of flax spear. Northern folks note Orion’s head is near horizon, sword goes upwards. Lights of Levin on horizon. ✨
