I ran out of energy and useful space in the shed so the last, small bits of firewood just got thrown in haphazardly. 4 cubic metres of firewood in the shed!
Waikawa Beach has nice dark skies so tomorrow night I'm running a community event I've called Starry Time
: a casual hour of looking at stars with the naked eye or binoculars. I hope we can see Mars, Venus, Large & Small Clouds of Magellan, Southern Cross, Milky Way, Arcturus, Canopus, Sirius. 🤩
4 cubic metres of firewood to stack.
Hanging around waiting for 4 cubic metres of firewood to be delivered. With only a couple of hours to sunset I’m unlikely to get it all into the shed before dark…
A bit of fun: this was meant to be a photo of the ship/s? in the distance. What I really like is the wave in the foreground.
Uurgh, with my iPad erased and then easily restored by bringing it near my iPhone, it’s setting up the email accounts again that’s a hassle. Go to the provider, download the special profile then hunt out the correct password.
I also wonder if my long-standing dissatisfaction with the iPad battery life is distorted by expectations set by my M1 MacBook Pro and iPhone 13 (and, for that matter, Kindle)?
Step 2, while the non-charging iPad still has 20% battery: disconnect from iCloud, full device erase, in case I decide to sell it as is. Or in case I decide to fix it. Good thing the iPad is my third tier device, after MacBook Pro and iPhone. So, if I buy a new one, what do I really need?
Today I start with research on my iPad which isn’t charging. Tried the basic troubleshooting with cables etc, now onto cleaning out fluff from the port-type tips.
Not sure yet what I’ll do if I can’t get it going — maybe just use my phone instead for the iPad tasks…
Today I made a special trip to Wellington Zoo to see two Snow Leopards — sisters, Asha and Manju.
I went past the enclosure several times which meant I eventually got to see one of them barely a metre away, behind the glass.
The most noticeable thing is their long, cylindrical tail.
Wellington Zoo is today’s outing.
A midwinter dip in the sea with friends is not something a Miraz does … until today. 😆
A perfect day for it with blue sky, warm sun, no wind and a calm sea.
You can see Kāpiti Island, and to the right, the top of the South Island across Cook Strait.
Afterwards: hot soup and bread.
Some of the first mandarins off our tree. The one I ate was delicious!
Those into Tiny Homes may enjoy this writeup and photos of a tiny home right beside the main entrance to Waikawa Beach: Designer’s Two-Bedroom Tiny Is Ultra Creative, Hides a Cool Sliding Ladder.
The original owners sold, and the property it stands on may soon be lost to the sea (hence: wheels).
I’ve been promising Fliss, the Japanese Quail, for ages that I’d clean out her run. Today was finally the day. I popped her in the glass recycling bin while I did the work. 🐦
Before: old stale straw, pine shavings.
After: deep, clean fresh straw, pine shavings and fresh branches for cover.
Checked the Library's ebooks and found Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Comic Issues #1-5:
… shows what life is like for cadets at the galaxy's greatest school! Witness the student days of the iconic cast before they joined the Enterprise!
Never was a comics reader, but loving this. 📚
Although I never saw Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973) when I was a kid watching it now reminds me of those times. All the stories were about the men having adventures. Nyota Uhura and occasionally Nurse Chapel, the only visible women, did what the men ordered: sent a signal, fetched an item…
One of the excellent things about today was that we paid someone to do a couple of hours weedeating, garden clearing and mulching. That would have taken us longer to do, and instead we got to sit back, read, enjoy the sunshine. Except Deb has a cold, so she got to lie around sniffling…
First day for winter of putting out food for the birds.
There’s a cracker frost today!
Well, bizarre! Looked at Netflix again and there’s Star Trek: The Animated Series, just as I expected but couldn’t find this morning…
Was it some quirk of the VPN, I wonder? Both times I’m sure I was set to NZ…
