The week I went to the LBG on a day they didn't run the fountain

Sunday.  13th.  Had a nice slow cooker beef stew for dinner and watched some birding videos with Stu.

Beef stew and rice

There was a barking dog going off somewhere for a while in the evening hrmmmm.

Monday.  Okish sleep. The barking dog was barking again this morning. Sigh.  Found this wasp in the bathroom in the morning.  Didn't know what to do with her.  In the end I kept her in a container for the day and released her the next day.  I know I probably should have killed her, but what difference can one wasp make?

European wasp

Google Street View has gotten totally enshittified. Their latest is they're letting companies drive around doing the photography AND LETTING THEM PLASTER ADS ALL OVER THE VIEWS. DISGUSTING!!!!

At least I have this to look at when I open the front door..

Cherry tree

Busy day. Leftovers for dinner. Sadness that we probably won't be able to reproduce Skippers Gorge photos in New Zealand because the drive would terrify the sweetie too much.

Tuesday.  Restless sleep. The barking dog was barking again this morning. Sigh. Busy day.

More pink and purple (and yellow) trash..

Daisies

Cherry tree flowers

Freesias

It begins...

Lemon juice

Sadness that we won't be able to reproduce Ball Hut photos in New Zealand because you can't drive there anymore, instead it's a 9km challenging hike. Each way. Sigh. Finished (what I could) of geotagging Dad's New Zealand photos.

Wednesday.  Dunno, no notes, it's been a week.

There seems to be only one baby gak gak bird left (there were at three originally)
Baby gak gak bird

By pure chance I had two different photos of Mt Fuji on my desktop.
Fuji desktops

Tornado potato!
Tornado potato

Stu cut up all these veggies so I went to Chris's and got some frozen chicken strips to go with them
Chicken and veggies

Thursday.  Awake early, no other notes, it's been a week.

Sunrise blossoms

Mills and Grills Deluxe Meat and Marinara.  Meat good. Marinara not good.
Mills and Grills deluxe meat and marinara

Friday.  Okish sleep. FFS windoze is trash. It rebooted overnight for patching. Fine. It tried to reload chrome/notepad/OneNote etc when I relogged in. Fine. Except it opened one of my Chrome windows, notepad and OneNote ON MY SECOND DESKTOP. USELESS! So I restarted notepad and OneNote on my main screen, but one of my Chrome collections won't reopen on my main desktop no no no, it refuses to do that and keeps opening on my second desktop.. EVEN THOUGH I NEVER EVEN HAD IT OPEN THERE!!! I hate windoze SO MUCH!! Last working Friday wheeee. And managed to break some crap trying to patch it. Hurrah.

Stu took me out to Giralang Pines for a bird walk after work.

Giralang Pines

Percival Trig

Percival trig

Stu in Giralang Pines

And I snapped this rather spectacular shot of the moon.  Pity I missed the conjunction with Venus the other day.  Click to embiggen.

Moon

Black Mountain Tower

Kievs and Black Mirror (a rare one with a happy ending).

Kievs and gems

Saturday.  Okish sleep.

Pink fresias

Bus into Civic to get some morning fountain photos. Except the turds never bothered to turn the fountain on today did they??? FFS.

No fountain for you!
No fountain

I asked at the National Capital Exhibition.  They had no idea.  Also, if you want photos of the model, go on a cloudy day to avoid contrast.

National Capital model

Still managed to get hot and bothered walking all around Civic.  Stu very nicely picked me up on his way home from a committee meeting at the club.  He had lunch.  I had a beer.  It went down very well.

Tiger Lane beer

Leftovers for dinner and we watched Young Einstein which I haven't seen in YEARS!!

Sunday.  Okish sleep. Early start out to Cotter to beat the crowds. Except for the dozens of turdhead cyclists blocking the entire lane for like 50 metres. No wonder drivers hate cyclists. Because they're inconsiderate turds. Walked down and up the river a bit. Didn't see too many birds. But did see three eastern bearded dragons and a heap of little lizards.

Grevillea

Eastern bearded dragon

Eastern bearded dragon

Eastern bearded dragon

Eastern bearded dragon

Eastern bearded dragon

Lizard

Cotter Dam spilling

Cotter Dam spilling

Rage!!
Rage