Crikey! I’m often overwhelmed with 1 acre and no cows. Chatted with our neighbour: he looks after 800 acres, 350 milking cows, a bunch of other stock, and it’s just him! Good news is he’ll be doing weed control by us soon. Too much gorse and lupin!
Some mornings, when you live next to a beef and dairy farm, you wake up to find two young steers tromping around in your yard.
The first video episode of Lingthusiasm was really interesting: Why do we gesture when we talk?. I had no idea there was so much to gesturing. If you’re interested in language you should give Lingthusiasm a try. It’s been audio only up till now.
Whew, I’m still completing the move of my Love Waikawa Beach community focused website to Micro.blog from its previous WordPress home, but if you enjoy photos from around our beach take a look. Especially look at: Birds, Beach Creatures, River Creatures, Frogs and Insects.
Scientists Discover Signs of New Neurons Developing Even in Adult Brains
Human beings grow new brain cells throughout their late adult life, a new study shows, even continuing when people are approaching their 90s.
Note: the oldest person studied was 87.
The Gender Spectrum Collection: Stock Photos Beyond the Binary
The Gender Spectrum Collection is a stock photo library featuring images of trans and non-binary models that go beyond the clichés.
Via Anna Rothschild.
Oh, turns out there were only 23 videos in the whole playlist. Unfortunately it didn’t cover including images (I really want to be able to use a header image). Excellent tutorial though and I definitely recommend it. Needs slight familiarity with Terminal, HTML, CSS.
I’ve been watching the Introduction to Hugo videos from Mike Dane and am up to #22. They’re really good. Problems so far:
typos (mine)
working in the wrong folder / directory
files from previous videos ‘interfering’.
I don’t yet understand the hierarchy of folders.
Sometimes the dogs and I are lucky and we have the 10 Km of beach between Ōtaki and Kuku all to ourselves. To be honest: I think I saw a couple of dots 2 km away north of the river mouth, but that could have just been driftwood.
Yesterday with cleaning, dog walking, mowing, mulching, planting, watering I did 300% of my daily move goal. Today I’m only too aware!
Returning from the beach, we saw these excellent textured clouds in the east.
I don’t want to lose my rights, but at the end of the day, this is actually not about a part of society losing its rights. It’s about the whole of society maintaining their freedom.
— Founder of Swazi Outdoor Apparel, who has high profile in hunting, fishing on gun law changes.
A start on customising a Micro.Blog theme
I want to customise the theme for my Micro.Blog hosted Love Waikawa Beach community website. This has set me on the track of first, several hours of head-bashing, and second, learning about Hugo and themes.
Here’s what I’ve found so far, that seems useful. It may help others who want to follow this path.
Micro.Blog is based on the Hugo blogging system.
Start with Manton’s 7 minute Micro.blog custom themes video.
Then move on to the Introduction to Hugo videos from Mike Dane.
Handy reference: Hugo’s Directory Structure Explained by Jake Wiesler.
Following the instructions in Mike’s videos I’ve installed Homebrew on my Mac and then installed Hugo. Next up I’ll download a theme and set to work.
Note: way back in 2006 I’d learned so much about WordPress and its predecessor B2 that I ended up teaming up with Maria Langer to write the first English-language book about WordPress: WordPress 2: Visual QuickStart Guide, Peachpit Press, Jun 29, 2006, by Maria Langer and Miraz Jordan.
That gives me the confidence to think I can learn about Hugo and use what I’ve learned in some productive way.
Are you a weapon? Pat yourself down. Another excellent cartoon from Sharon Murdoch subsequent to the Christchurch NZ shooting attack that killed or injured 100 people at mosques on 15 March 2019.
Why Time moves faster as we age
Days seemed to last longer in your youth because the young mind receives more images during one day than the same mind in old age.
We live at the beach so things rust and degrade quickly. That includes items like the cheap toilet roll holder that fell apart a week or two ago. Today I removed the clamp thing that had held it and installed a bamboo replacement. That shouldn’t degrade.
It’s been ages since I went for a bike ride, but today seemed like a good day for it. Here’s my bike at the all-purpose entrance to the beach (ie vehicles, horses), with a plethora of warning signs. Kāpiti Island in the background.
1881 … Crown troops invaded … Parihaka and decimated the village.
1864, Crown troops set fire to a whare karakia (church) in Rangiaowhia during morning prayer, incinerating non-combatants, including tamariki (children) and kaumātua (elders).
There were a couple of really noisy magpies by the house this evening. This one sat on a driftwood sculpture. Meanwhile my 17 year old cat, Aphra, was just hanging out nearby.
Wow, a group of 3 low-flying Hercules aircraft just passed overhead, all trailing smoke. Someone else got this quick video: www.facebook.com/charlie.s… One photo with my zoom lens and Fuji X-T2, the other with iPhone 7.
