Yesterday’s late afternoon trip to the beach netted me these 3 iPhone photos:
- Shining sea with boat in the distance.
- Driftwood and dark clouds.
- View East from the beach track: dunes, houses, dark clouds. Our house is behind the closest dunes.
I’m so much enjoying The Orville TV show. I forget I’m not watching Star Trek. In the latest ep I was expecting a last-second beam out, but hey, it’s not Star Trek. Season One was fun. Season Two has matured nicely. Not too heavy, but still thought provoking.
One more on NZ history, at Kindle Loc 2625:
Contact [with] foreigners began with Abel Tasman in 1642, but so briefly, and then with such a long pause, that it really began again with the first voyage of Captain James Cook in 1769.
Source: Tangata Whenua: A History.
I’m reading Tangata Whenua: A History to learn more about the history of Aotearoa New Zealand. 📚 I may cite snippets, such as this one at Kindle Loc 661:
The best estimate for New Zealand … was colonisation in the period 1230–1280 AD.
So people have been here ~800 years.
A very interesting 5 minute video: Why are All Voice Assistants Female?
So why are all voice assistants female then? There’s science behind it, but there is also just a lot of bias behind it too.
It’s still International Women’s Day somewhere, right?
I have too many domain names, too many websites and too many email addresses. That’s bad for the bank balance. I need to figure out how to trim all this down.
The first mistake I made with my Japanese Quail was to buy a rabbit hutch and run to house them. A raised house was reached by a ramp, and a wire run was on either side. Quail won’t go up a ramp. They stay on the ground. I ended up dismantling it and using the parts. 🐦
Today I caught baby Glee ‘in the wild’, ie, in their house, and she posed nicely. Quail have no prey sense and no homing instinct. You have to keep quail fenced or they’ll just be gone.
Mind you, when one escaped recently I found her trying to get back in… 🐦
Some bizarre cropping afflicted that photo yesterday of 10-day old quail chick Glee, getting even more white feathers. So, here she is again, this time not headless. 🐦
I enjoyed Captain Marvel. It had humanity, humour and heart along with the fights and chases and whatnot. I’ve left feeling ‘warm’. 😻
Quail chick Glee is getting more white feathers by the day. 10 days old and does not like me picking her up! 🐦
Well, I finally sent out the community newsletter for February. Now to start on the March issue. We had a glitch around approvals. A surprisingly large number of things happen around here.
While I’ve run out of day before I’ve run out of things I planned or hoped to do, I feel pretty pleased with what I have achieved today. 👍
My quail are Coturnix Coturnix as in the photo of the bird in the hand below. 🐦
They’re similar to, but not the same as, California Quail, with the distinctive curl on the head: California quail, adult male. Photographed by Yathin sk, in Point Reyes National Seashore, California
Glee's feathers are coming along nicely. 🐦
To get a decent photo of quail chick Glee, now 7 days old, I had to grab her then hold the squirmer in one hand while snapping shots with the other.
I love the ‘not amused’ look in the last photo.
Photos: yellow quail chick starting to show white feathers. 🐦
Hard to believe it’s taken this long for women to be acknowledged like this:
shearer Emily Welch won the first Golden Shears event for women yesterday … at the 59th championships … The 39-year-old… holds the women’s world record of 648 lambs in nine hours.
Ironic really, when you’re at a dead stop in the now usual congestion. 90 minutes to reach Otaki. Normally a 15 minute drive. The sign says: Horowhenua are you moving here.
I was about to hammer in stakes to support frost cloth when I spotted this large Paper Wasp nest only a few centimetres away. Fly spray dealt to them quite quickly.
This is my friend Willow whose people are dealing with a family emergency today. After a morning on her own, I’m allowed to take her for a walk then home with me. After her favourite dog treat though. 😎 🐶
