This morning’s rainbow 🌈
We went to a birthday party on the south side of the island last night. It was an enjoyable evening. Just before sunset a whale and her calf swam by the house where the party was being held. As if to send birthday wishes, the calf waved it tail in the air a few times as it went by.
Unbeknownst to the friend who text me this, I was just about to walk into the chemist (pharmacy) when he sent me this.
I miss Adams' writing.
Space … is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space.
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
I have a number of photographs from our trip to Portugal last year which never saw the light of day because of me catching pneumonia and becoming so unwell. So I am revisiting a Sunday day trip to the town of Beja. During our walk around town we came across some interesting graffiti. Here is a selection of it.
Today was a WatchTo5K … actually I suppose that it still is? The thing is that it has been raining pretty much consistently since yesterday evening. Everything from light drizzle to torrential rain. This morning has been more of the latter. The roads are turning into rivers and there is localized flooding. I don’t mind getting wet while running, but setting off into hard rain does not feel like an enjoyable experience. I want to improve my fitness, not try to prove my strength against any sort of weather.
I have an appointment later. If the weather has eased by then, I’ll take a run. Otherwise there will be no run today, and I’ll resume tomorrow (before the idea starts to creep into my mind to skip the program 😉).
I’ve watched the first two episodes of Masters of the Air on TV+. I probably should have done this in the first episode, but for the second episode I turned on subtitles as in places I was struggling to understand what was being said. I notice this more often these days in films and series on streaming services, sound feels more muffled in places.
I’m pretty sure, or would like to think that it is not aging ears. Having read similar comments elsewhere, I wonder if there have been changes in filming practices, or more specifically sound recording?
I’ve just completed my first run of the third week of the WatchTo5K program. This was the hardest so far - I wonder how many times I will be saying that before this training is over?! A couple of longer runs in the middle of the walk/run sequence (and the heat didn’t help). I still find it hard to believe that I’ll be running 5K in seven weeks, but I’m sticking with it. 🏃♂️
📱Well I finally decided to reinstall a cover on my phone. I'd like it to last another year or so, at least, and don't know if I can trust myself not to drop it.
Finished reading: Foster by Claire Keegan 📚
This is the third book that I have read by Claire Keegan, an author who I had not heard of a few months ago. Each time brought into a story, taken through a snap shot, and then we leave the characters to the larger story. But that snap shot contains so much.
Highly recommended.
We are really getting a cornucopia of weather conditions at the moment. Days of still weather, clear skies and sun, were replaced with two days of howling winds, though clear skies as well. Now the clouds have come in so thick that all views are obscured and it has just started raining.
🍃 I feel as though we have been in a wind tunnel all day, maybe the last two days?! I hope that we wake up to a calmer day tomorrow.
Well that is week two of the Watch to 5K completed. This week was harder than the second, though I am also seeing progress. I am running a little further than the previous week. At the moment I am finding it hard to imagine that I’ll be running 5K by the end of the program. However, there are still seven weeks to go, and it is a gradual build up each week. Onwards and upwards 🏃🏼
🏃♀️ I don’t think that my run today will be much fun, though it will be a challenge. Winds are currently gusting 20/25mph, with a forecast for stronger winds.
I find myself wondering if it is possible to somehow create an RSS feed for a website that I would like to follow, but that does not a feed?
The dawn chorus yesterday morning.
I have not used the Maui bus service for a good number of years now, but it seems that come March 1 I will qualify for a free travel. According to the article below, I will come under the 55 and older category (I am 60). So that leaves me with something to reflect on!
This morning’s Watch to 5K run was the hardest so far. The fifth in the program, the second of the second week, I think that my calf muscles were tightening up with this new regime that I am putting them through.
I’m still pleased that I am on this program, and look forward to see how I progress.
I took the case off of my iPhone 13 Mini a few days ago to clean the phone. It is a clear case and I could see dirt accumulating around the back of the phone. I cleaned the phone and case, but I have not put the case back on the phone. I feel that the phone looks so much better without it.
I don’t know if I will stay with this configuration? My previous phone was an iPhone 7 Plus. A year so before I upgraded the case for that phone finally disintegrated. Knowing that I was getting a new phone soon I decided not to buy a new case. Again I preferred the look of the phone unclothed. Thankfully I did not damage it and despite its age, I got a good resale deal for the 7.
The Mini is about two years old. I can see a small scratch in the center of the screen under certain lighting conditions, but nothing to get in the way of daily usage. I hope to have this phone for another year or so - “until Apple bring out a new SE version in the wraps of a Mini, or even another Mini”, he says hopefully. At the moment I don’t know if I will put the case back on the phone, or buy a new case (the current one is breaking)? Do I trust my hands from not dropping it?
I just like seeing the the clean lines of phone without a case
I just saw a bumper sticker,
Love Everyone
Now there is a practice of a lifetime.
Dawn this morning, a couple of hours ago.
