Finally filed my taxes today. I guess that’s a good thing (I’m home sick today so finding something was a struggle)!

We had a solid night clamming: a full bucket each. Low tide just before sunset, it was warm enough and the winds were in our favour (from the South). Shucking, cleaning and canning tomorrow.

We watched Hamnet last night and it is so, so good! I loved the novel when I read it 5 years ago and I think they did such a good job on the film. ❤️

New moon, it’s been calm, very cool tide lines on the shore.

Runoff

Spring beach

From The Train Doesn’t Stop Here Any More by Ron Brown

Sometimes I want to disappear into a game. I found a new free one that I’m really enjoying on the Switch, but there’s a mobile version as well. It’s calming and quite beautiful.

“library worker” = Aldon ❤️

A great article from Raptitide: Social Media is the Opposite of Social Life

Go for a walk in the rain, attract the attention of deer…

Happy 75th birthday to my sweet mama.

Taking the red-eye back east means the entire day is a write off.

A week of family fun, over in a flash

Time goes by so fast.

A Good Friday

I know meditation is good for me, but I’ve struggled to practice with any consistency. I sat for 10 minutes every day in March with a free trial of this app: The Way (great name!)

I have no intention of paying for it, but the lessons I received have been impactful and I do plan to continue daily practice with or without the app.

If you want to give it a go, here are 30 free sessions on The Way: https://the-way.app.link/gift

Airport pick-up

Our last night housesitting.

I rarely watch online videos anymore, but every so often something crosses my radar that seems worth a few minutes of my time, and today it was this ad, made by the Norwegian Consumer Council:

I watched it twice! Once with the sound off at work, and it was funny enough to watch again with Aldon when I got home (sound on).

There’s an accompanying article that’s worth a gander as well

Digital products and services keep getting worse. A new report from the Norwegian Consumer Council (Forbrukerrådet) shows how this phenomenon – known as enshittification – affects both consumers and society at large, but that it is possible to turn the tide. 

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Woke up to maybe a centimeter of snow this morning. “Oh that’s not so bad!”

20 minutes later: blizzard. Total whiteout. About 4” in under 2 hours. and then it stopped and the sun came out.

Welcome to Spring!