Every couple of days I plug a 4TB drive into my MacBook Pro and use Time Machine to run a backup. Over recent weeks though it's failed repeatedly somewhere in the process.
Today I gave in and reluctantly erased the drive to start fresh.
After an hour or so: 30% backed up, so far.
This is a slim book in the way a surgeon's scalpel is slim — and equally effective Understanding Te Tiriti. 📚
A handbook of basic facts about Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
No 200 page academic treatise, this book cuts right to the point, clarifying what led to Te Tiriti, what it says and what that means.
Buy it, read it, if you are in any way engaged with Aotearoa.
My Granny Smith apple tree is on track to produce a good crop this year.
I'm going to miss this tree when we move.
The corner of the deck railing is the super popular spot for birds this year. This Yellowhammer sang me a nice tune. 🐦
I think this is the same Dotterel chick I took a photo of a couple of days ago. Today I spotted its one or two siblings (they move so fast I just wasn't sure if it was 2 chicks or 3). 🐦
Cooking Tip: Perfect Hard Boiled Eggs:
It’s easy to make perfect, easy to peel, hard boiled eggs with no green ring.
That was fun, with such excellent and well-known musical pieces — The Magic Flute:
a 2022 German musical fantasy film directed by Florian Sigl and written by Andrew Lowery, based on the 1791 opera of the same name by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. … Seventeen arias from The Magic Flute are featured in the film, performed by the individual actors.
Today I made this Creamy Body Wash:
- 50 g hot water
- 25 g coconut oil
- 1 tsp xanthan gum
- 200 g water – additional
- 100 g liquid castile soap
- 30-50 drops essential oils
I used 25 drops lemon, 15 lavender, 15 bergamot.
Tomorrow I get to see how it turned out.
Another enjoyable adventure with this young group of friends — Ithaka Rising: Halcyone Space, book 2 by LJ Cohen. 📚
When Barre's brother Jem disappears, Barre and Ro race to find him before he sells his future and risks his mind for a black market neural implant.
Look at all that fluff! I think this Barbary Dove was just a youngster. 🐦
The forecast for the next few days at Ruakākā and Waikawa Beach shows a bit of difference. 🥵
I enjoy a bit of heat!
A month ago Cheri posted a no-knead bread recipe; today I finally tried baking it.
Crusty ✔︎; easy to make ✔︎. It didn't rise a whole lot and was a little doughy but it tastes great all the same.
Maybe next time I'll give it longer in the first stage of preparation.
Three of 5 well-grown Black swan cygnets on lake Puna o te Ora. 🐦
I enjoyed the movie Space Oddity. 🎥
Alex is going to Mars — it was a dream he and his big brother had. But then Daisy comes along …
This littlie was hopping / fluttering along the beach. 🐦
Research and a bit of guessing led me to believe it is a Kairaka | Eurasian skylark:
A small brown and creamy-buff bird with off-white underparts, streaked breast and throat, variegated brown upperparts, a sturdy horn-coloured bill that is yellow-brown at the base, and pink legs and feet with a long slightly curved hind toe. Adults have a faint mask of pale feathers around and behind the eye, and a small streaked crest on the hind crown that is raised when alert.
I tried this Vegetable Lo Mein recipe and was very pleased with how it came out.
I couldn't get snow peas or chow mein noodles, but random noodles worked fine. I added snow pea shoots.
Easy to cook and delicious.
OK, this excellent word puzzle is going in my daily puzzle set: Gisnep | Daily Quote Puzzle.
Via: Lynneguist List.
The Poaka | Pied Stilt babies can only be seen from quite far away. There are 3 here, between their parent and the log. 🐦
Here's a very cropped view.
This Tūturiwhatu | New Zealand dotterel parent is keeping a very close eye on me. 🐦
Why? because I was taking photos (at some distance) of its baby.
Good grief! Hanging out in the public library while my car's serviced. My phone has no signal so I'm using the free WiFi. When I try to do Lex's word games I get this notice:
