Welcome to gemini://cousinsd.net
Anxious about the climate crisis, mass extinction, and the extremism of the political right.
I infrequently post on a Mastodon account. Below are recent posts:
05-05-2026 14:56:31 GMT+1200 (Wā Aotearoa Arowhānui)
Playing with ideas for the component layout.
However, there's a 10m trench to be dug, so I'd best get on to that; that will be keep me warmer in any case!
https://mastodon.nz/tags/SolarPunk
04-05-2026 17:30:59 GMT+1200 (Wā Aotearoa Arowhānui)
- first baby steps on the second attempt.
25.4V at the bottom pair of terminals, 117V at the top pair of terminals on a cloudy day.
My first attempt: https://files.cousinsd.net/picture.php?/328/category/25
04-05-2026 17:23:04 GMT+1200 (Wā Aotearoa Arowhānui)
Lest I forget.
03-05-2026 17:56:17 GMT+1200 (Wā Aotearoa Arowhānui)
Today I cleaned all the windows and swept the chimney flue. That adds to the tally of checked items on the Autumnal Job List.
'Twas a gorgeous day just west of Te Waihora.
02-05-2026 13:37:58 GMT+1200 (Wā Aotearoa Arowhānui)
Our piwakawaka (Aotearoa fantail) just flitted through the house. That's once or twice a day for a week or so now. I haven't caught sight of it in the act, but I suspect it leaves with one of our daddy long-legs (Pholcus phalangioides) on each visit.
02-05-2026 13:11:02 GMT+1200 (Wā Aotearoa Arowhānui)
I cast a plinth for our old bird bath yesterday. The thrushes and blackbirds will be well pleased (to anthropomorphise, they probably won't care, but I like to think so).
01-05-2026 07:12:40 GMT+1200 (Wā Aotearoa Arowhānui)
Thank you for your kind and considered comments. I regret posing a rhetorical question. Paddock harvesting vegetables is solid work, and I spent all of last weekend roofing, and yesterday I spent a good part of the day digging and crow-barring stony soil and concrete (I managed to get a power pole, which stands within our boundary and was on a lean, back up to plumb). So, yes, over-worked hands. I left school at 16 years of age and I have spent a large portion of the subsequent 47 years exchanging manual labour for wages. Aside from the occasional minor injury, no sore hands, but in the past year, meh. My body is ageing, I accept that. Ngā mihi.
@zeborah @aligorith
30-04-2026 20:16:17 GMT+1200 (Wā Aotearoa Arowhānui)
A lovely morning at the office.
30-04-2026 19:59:05 GMT+1200 (Wā Aotearoa Arowhānui)
My hands are sore. Could be down to over work. But they work no harder now then at any time in the 47 year working life of this ape. So, what then?
30-04-2026 19:50:09 GMT+1200 (Wā Aotearoa Arowhānui)
When I was a kid I would run around a lot. Now I find walking quite fast enough.