Four for four

The last one is gone now. :(

There is a plover family (Masked Lapwings, a type of ground nesting bird) that lives on our street that haven't had much luck with their offspring.

They aren't too bright, and the chicks tend to get run over by cars, washed down storm drains, get eaten or get killed in some other way. They've only had one or two survive to adulthood in the last five years.

They had a brood of four hatchlings recently (the chicks are sooooo cute!) and due to the new veggie patch they were growing up super fast. Probably because they had a good food and water source.

As normal, the chicks got picked off one by one. The last one disappeared, we assume it got grabbed by a cat or a hawk since there was no sign of it except for a few feathers. Poor little chikkies...

Evernote

Having yet another go at writing, again.

This time trying out Evernote, the free version. See if it helps if  can add little notes from my phone as well as from my computer. It may make me more productive. Or I'll just waste more time staring at my phone.

Won't know until we try!

Post apocalyptic fish tank removals

Had a weirdo dream that was different enough that I remembered it when I woke up.

It was some dystopian, "after society broke down" type dreas mscape with roving bands plundering for resources, but we still had fish in a bunch of different sized tanks.

The bit I remember was having to do an emergency transfer and submerging a medium sized tank in a giant "could fit a billiard table and a few friends" sized tank, but when we pulled the medium tank out and carried it to the table, it was warping and twisting. Kept thinking it was going to shatter.

Ten kay, so close!

Had the chance to do another 10km run today, recorded. Don't always get a chance to have my phone on me when we do these longer runs.

My old personal best was 1 hour and 30 seconds. The long term goal is to crack the one hour mark for 10km but didn't quite make it. Was carrying my camelbak with about 2L of water and drank about half of it, but also had a little Flip 4 bluetooth speaker which added a bit of weight, though not much.

Todays time was 1:01.08 - 38 seconds off from my personal best. Though that time was done in 2018, two years of cream and wear & tear on the knees.

The highlight is that I managed to do it without dropping to a walk. In 2018 I remember I slowed down to a walk a few times, so my running speed must have been higher. Still, not too bad. Finished the run about eight minutes ago and I feel like I could go run some more (I'm not going to).

First time in charge

Got dropped in the deep end a bit at work, ot volunstabbed to be in charge on an assessment. I managed to get through it with a few issues, but was good to have done it.

Should be a bit easier next time.

Fare thee well

I'm sorry we couldn't provide a better home for you. I'm sorry the other cats picked on you. Hopefully your next home will be your forever home.