Sometimes dead animals wash up on our beach (3 goats right now) and I report them to the Council. I only just discovered that in Apple Maps (and GMaps) I can mark a location and then tap on the marker, swipe up far enough and see the GPS co-ordinates.
Found this in a folder labelled screenshots. Date: 14 June 2011. Obviously the dogs had just been groomed. I’m so impressed by Oshi’s posture, sitting up, being a good boy. And Sasha looking at the camera too. 🐶
And of course I should have waited to take that photo of the snowy peaks of the Tararuas. Sunset…
The Tararua peaks were dusted with snow overnight.
“Just bite together normally and hold for 2 minutes.” Except, after 45 minutes in the dentist chair and with half my face numb, my lower jaw aching from holding my mouth open, I no longer know what a ‘normal bite’ is. In 2 weeks I’ll have another crown, but not the good kind… 👑
It was very chilly overnight so Sasha and Oshi had to huddle up for warmth. 🐶
In English we put spaces between words. It turns out, we have 6th century Irish monks to thank for that. Listen to The Allusionist, Episode 9, The Space Between for the details. The podcast episode is only 10 minutes long, and extremely interesting.
Over several sessions I watched Jupiter Ascending (2 hours). It’s about a woman, set in space. It’s massively overblown, weird, creative. Chases, explosions etc. Not terrible. Jupiter sure ascends a lot: ladders, pillars, whatever… Fave subtitle: “both continue screaming”.
Car crash at the corner on 30 July 2019
Two cars crashed on the highway at Manakau, near the intersection of Waikawa Beach Rd, about 8.40am on Tuesday
The crash blocked the northbound lane of SH1 for about an hour.
Started watching the Netflix series, Another Life:
… follows the story of an astronaut and a space crew, who are on a mission to investigate the origins of an alien artifact that mysteriously appeared on Earth.
Good to see Katee Sackhoff in the lead. I’ll be watching more.
In the last couple of weeks I seem to have got behind on everything. I’m finally starting to sort that out, for indoors stuff anyway. The rainy weather helps.
Bukbukbukbuk. Why are the pheasants doing their earthquake warning? … shake shake. Oh.
The sea was fairly calm this morning, but still quite noisy. This video is not too long after sunrise, looking southwest to Kāpiti Island. Volume up a bit!
Today was quail moving day. Flop obliged with a photo. 🐦
Today we went with friends to Foxton Estuary, where, unlike last time, there were few birds. A white-faced heron came very close though (cropped iPhone shot). And a huge flock of maybe 100 Canada Geese arrived (volume UP).
Came home after dinner out having left the bathroom window open and a light on in the house. Found this large insect on the wall. From the tip of one extremity to the other she was as long as my middle finger from tip to knuckle.
Thanks to @odd who identified it as a Tipuloidea or Cranefly.
Good grief! I just sent out our Waikawa Beach Ratepayers Association monthly Newsletter by Buttondown for the first time (switched from Mailchimp, thanks to recommendations here). It was so easy. Thank you to all those who discussed it.
Whew. Second day in a row where I’ve been sitting in the midday sun listening to a podcast and woken up when it finished. 💤💤💤
The diggers next door have moved to behind our house. They’re now ~140 metres away. Our house shakes several times an hour while they work. Maybe that’s because of the 6 metre piles that support our house? I don’t notice it as much sitting as when I was in bed, thank goodness.
Well, that woke me up!
Light earthquake occurred 15 km north-west of Levin: www.geonet.org.nz/earthquak…
