Jono

@jonocarpenter.bsky.social

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Archaeology, banjos, Taitokerau, preschoolers and teens, lack of executive function, second chances, mental exhaustion, well-toasted bread, banjos. Not the real-life Indiana Jones, more a dwarfish sort of Evelyn O'Connell

Two bags of plum tree cuttings from two different trees.
Spotify on Android Auto playing Papatoetoe by Mannu Singh Dildoria
Whittakers Gumdrop Block in the truck
A 1m long red and white scale at the bottom of a vertical slope, with a large level terrace below. In forest
A track of fill and aggregate behind a pegged timber edgeboard runs between archaeological features and through indigenous forest
A tree is avoided by new track construction
New boxed timber steps through indigenous forest
A black and white bearded collie x in a collar looks chagrined, at an open, denim-coloured ranch slider. A pair of small orange crics and a book lie on the carpet beside him.
A rear footwell full of fruit trees
Black and white bearded collie x in a crate, wearing a blue jumper
A young Bryan "Dexter" Holland and bandmates from The Offspring.
Art installation at the Whangarei Quarry Arts Centre (as opposed to the Whangarei Quarry Garden)
Dog in a cone ona brown-stained deck with red and green rego tags on a red, yellow and blue collar
Enviropro van parked across two disabled carparks and no parking/flammables zone. With apartments behind including the green door behind which we used to live,
A sheep looks at the camera with menace. On mown grass with a paling fence behind and the front of a truck to the fore.
A sheep sits on grass by the side of a driveway, at the end of a suburban cul de sac.
A still harbour with anchored yachts in early evening light.
Afternoon sun lights up the pampas on a hillside
A black and white bearded collie x in a cone, with a caterpillar squeaky toy on the lawnn in later afternoon sun
Terry and the Gun Runners and the complete Chronicles of Narnia
A small bearded collie x sits on a cushion by a roaring fire
Racking on a solar farm. Blue sky with puffy white clouds over green grass, dark green hillsnin the distance, and a flat fieldnif racking waiting for panels to be installed.
A black and white collie x in the back of a truck, wearing a cone and feeling sorry for himself.
A small red boat tied up in a mangrovey channel with dead-calm water and salmon pink and blue morning light over a misty river
Dr Hubble and his superfabulous fuckin bubble. A middle-aged dude in a rainbow suit having a bubble party with two hundred kids losing their shit in a small theatre
A bowl of fry bread and bread frying in a pot on the stove, with blue-tiled splashback behind.
14 feeding the fish. A boy in a yellow wetsuit (he is wearing three!) feeding a sea urchin to a fish
A preachooler in yellow hi-vis ans blue trackpants and boots stands, smiling, inside a temporary fence. Low sunlight on the grass behind, a childs playhouse on the right
Old survey plan overlaid with modern cadastral parcels, annotated with an apparently bastioned polygon and the word REDOUBT representing a Māori fortification with gunfighting adaptations.
FB add for Matariki drag bingo at the local hotel restuarant. Three drag queens in black, advertising drag queen bi go and a show
Elaborate three storey high kids slide in the style of a fighting platform
A yellow Sumitomo excavator, brown silty clay, grey skies over a harbour, and a rainbow
The R. Tucker Thompson, a traditional, gaff-rigged, square-topsail schooner, sets sail from Opua
Kiwi smores over the brazier
Community FB snip saying there is a power pole down at the end of Tutukaka Block Road and noone is getting out for a few hours
Google Maps screenshot of feedlots
A preschooler in a purple, blue and orange baseball cap.and blue short holds an armful of greens on a brown-stained wooden deck
A black and white bearded collie x with his face in a yogurt container, in a dog crate with comfy blankets.
A sealed lane winds up through dense green native forest
A graze below a fingernail in need of maintenance, above a blue table cloth and white mug with coffee dregs
Pelican edition of Sir Mortimer Wheeler's Archaeology from the Earth, om the carpet next to a green armchair
Railways Department platelayers cottage plans and elevations ~1910. 3brm timber frame house with attached bath and scullery and detached outhouse
A cow in the sea, with the words "I am cringe/But I am free"
A blue plastic colander with a broken handle, in front a dishrack,kettle and toaster. The base of the colander is faded from age/heat
Snip from the New Zealand Herald, 29 Marxh 1912.
Flying bearded collie x on lawn with shrubs and house behind.
Delicious grilled sausages
A brunette woman with pale skin and bloody chin stares towards the camera, a bright garden behind her. Its a still from the 1979 Australian vampire film Thirst
A bearded collie x nests in his crate
Two teens and a preschooler fishing off the wharf at sunset
Moon, Venus and Jupiter in the western sky at sunset.
Title Card for The Lost Islands, with a tall ship on a calm sea
A limestone quarry, white rocky pit with green grass surrounding. Digire in hi-vis in the distance under overcast sky
A woman in hi-vis stands next to a rectangular pit in a lush green fiels with rilling hills to the horizon and an overcast sky.
John St, Whangarei Streetview.
A Hello Fresh sausage and mash meal recioe card, versus the actual much stumpier sausages
Model AH-64, A10, DC3/C47? and Spitfire on fence between two houses
A preschooler stands at the school gate, the harbour mouth and Whakareora maunga behind and a clear blue winter sky.
Gus, a black and white bearded collie cross licks his lips while sitting on a grey outdoor couch in the sun.
A black and white bearded collie x chews a biscuit packet on a gret outdoor couch, in the sun. Blue sky and shiny green pūriri tree/Vitex lucens in the background