13-07-2024, 01:34 PM
Grey old day in the bay today - perfect day to do a few more boring rows of the border round the Dr Seuss boring border - my attention span when doing long straight single crochet rows has never been good .A new series of Vikings has dropped on Netflix overnight so that will be my distraction this afternoon
Popeye - lime marmalade is delicious and my all time favourite key lime pie
Not sure if they are available everywhere but if you see them in your supermarket can recommend eg.eggs - the brightest yolks I have seen for ages - genuine free range - have a bright yellow label very good marketing - he had trays of 20 size 8 for $9.99 so price is good for such good quality eggs
My Mum used to always crush a little egg shell in her wild bird feeder - was looking at the wax eyes today they are such a delicate little bird - the starlings are such bullies
Yesterday I went to watch my timber sons new purchase - a tree planting tractor thingee - which can be remotely operated in rough ground and it plants hundreds of trees very quickly which will replace lots of human beings who need these jobs - it worries me how much automation is being developed so rapidly - same in the supermarket - there aren’t many options for the people who are challenged but they easily cope with changing the specials posters around the store - but under the new grocery commissioners regulation the fine for one of the previous days special poster being left up is $50,000 so now the posters have become electronic along with the shelf prices -20 people - hard on the people as their options are shrinking rapidly
But one good thing timber son has buyers for lots and lots of chopped up slash as a result of his trip to the US which is good news for that plant as it is in a small town and three generations of two families work in the plant and profit share - he can’t sell it in Europe they won’t buy it unless the trees are being replanted and there is no way we want replanting of pine trees in many areas .Apple picking will be fully automated in maybe 2 years - frightening if someone had told my old boy 20 years ago when he bought the orchard that a machine would be picking his apples he would have told them they were nuts! There is much comment about state servants losing their jobs at least the majority of them have options even if it involves retraining - the jobs that are shrinking in number for our challenged kiwis worry me more - Robie has twins with Tourette’s who have done shelf labels for the last seven years and loved every day of it
Popeye - lime marmalade is delicious and my all time favourite key lime pie
Not sure if they are available everywhere but if you see them in your supermarket can recommend eg.eggs - the brightest yolks I have seen for ages - genuine free range - have a bright yellow label very good marketing - he had trays of 20 size 8 for $9.99 so price is good for such good quality eggs
My Mum used to always crush a little egg shell in her wild bird feeder - was looking at the wax eyes today they are such a delicate little bird - the starlings are such bullies
Yesterday I went to watch my timber sons new purchase - a tree planting tractor thingee - which can be remotely operated in rough ground and it plants hundreds of trees very quickly which will replace lots of human beings who need these jobs - it worries me how much automation is being developed so rapidly - same in the supermarket - there aren’t many options for the people who are challenged but they easily cope with changing the specials posters around the store - but under the new grocery commissioners regulation the fine for one of the previous days special poster being left up is $50,000 so now the posters have become electronic along with the shelf prices -20 people - hard on the people as their options are shrinking rapidly
But one good thing timber son has buyers for lots and lots of chopped up slash as a result of his trip to the US which is good news for that plant as it is in a small town and three generations of two families work in the plant and profit share - he can’t sell it in Europe they won’t buy it unless the trees are being replanted and there is no way we want replanting of pine trees in many areas .Apple picking will be fully automated in maybe 2 years - frightening if someone had told my old boy 20 years ago when he bought the orchard that a machine would be picking his apples he would have told them they were nuts! There is much comment about state servants losing their jobs at least the majority of them have options even if it involves retraining - the jobs that are shrinking in number for our challenged kiwis worry me more - Robie has twins with Tourette’s who have done shelf labels for the last seven years and loved every day of it