Just confirming that is is quite easy to record and publish a microcast on Micro.blog. I just used my iPhone, the Ferrite app, and the Wavelength app on a walk through the woods on my property as I stalked a squawking owl.
Stalking a squawking owl
Have been wanting to record a microcast, so first I listened to a few from others in the Micro.blog community. Then while I was outside dumping the day’s scraps into the compost bin, I heard an interesting sound. (Here is the Cornell Lab of Ornithology page with the sounds of the great horned owl.)
Live music. Local beer. Warm doughnut with chocolate glaze. A tree for Oliver to climb, without shoes (just like Paama). Rain clouds cleared today and so we are on the Saxapahaw hillside for a perfect evening.
Two kittens have arrived at our home.
In the backyard we have a pear tree. It started the summer with many pears. The squirrels visit the tree, calmly sitting up high, peeling and eating the pears. The deer gather under the tree to eat the peels.
Needed to make space in the freezer so I took out the frozen sour cherries picked in Virginia in June 2016, pitted them and prepared a sour cherry shrub for cocktails next weekend and a simple cherry jam for this week’s yogurt breakfast and ice cream desserts.
Another big rain, another creature crawling across the yard. This an Eastern box turtle.
In the middle of (the stormy) night, a crash from the kitchen jolted me and Erin awake. I immediately thought that copperhead had gotten inside, but it was our daughter, who accidentally brushed a glass off the counter.
Thunderstorm just rolled over, dumping a lot of rain, so much the gutters couldn’t keep up. I shined the flashlight out the back porch to watch and noticed a copperhead snake slithering along (right where I was trimming bushes yesterday).
During our trip to Vanuatu, I was happy to see World Cup fever, with many people flying the flag of their chosen team on their trucks, buses, and attached to bamboo high above their houses. Here’s a truck for France crossing the Yasur ash plain on Tanna.
One photo from our evening atop Yasur volcano on Tanna Island in the Republic of Vanuatu. If things ever settle down at home (major plumbing and water problems!), I’ll write about the trip and all we did.
Brought pair of shoes (black Frye oxfords) to Man Muir Shoe Repair in Raleigh, saw worker carrying stack of trucker hats on which they’ve just sewn Cleveland Browns patches. Intersections.
Home again. Our grand family adventure in Vanuatu is complete.
Final day of our South Pacific adventure. We’re in Sydney, headed to the Glebe Markets, a dance performance st the Sydney Oper House, shopping for souvenirs, dinner in Newtown or Camperdown, and packing for the long flight home to the U.S.A. Much to blog about time in Vanuatu.
Vanuatu, here we come!
The Zuiker Family epic adventure begins.
Box turtle near car wheel.
Beside myself with anxiety, stress, excitement, exhaustion: moved into our newly renovated old house, World Cup starts tomorrow, big family trip to Australia and Vanuatu soon, and a new boss at work.
Pileated woodpecker climbing the big pine above.
First relatively calm Saturday morning at the new house, coffee on the front porch to enjoy the tranquility of this corner of Chapel Hill. Last night used the BioLite FirePit for first time, with friends who dropped in for s’mores.