Jono
@jonocarpenter.bsky.social
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
Reversion to the mean. Stock-trampled 99% cockle (Austrovenus sturchburyi) shell midden with a little but of floating fire-cracked rick and charcoal. Pataua.
Summer fieldwork so obviously 4 came down with a cold overnight and Dr Marine is missing work to look after him.
Sounds about right.
Summer fieldwork so obviously 4 came down with a cold overnight and Dr Marine is missing work to look after him.
Sounds about right.
December 1, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Reversion to the mean. Stock-trampled 99% cockle (Austrovenus sturchburyi) shell midden with a little but of floating fire-cracked rick and charcoal. Pataua.
Summer fieldwork so obviously 4 came down with a cold overnight and Dr Marine is missing work to look after him.
Sounds about right.
Summer fieldwork so obviously 4 came down with a cold overnight and Dr Marine is missing work to look after him.
Sounds about right.
Sure look like lots of parts working together eh?
November 29, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Sure look like lots of parts working together eh?
Vintage kitchen gear/material culture/old Aotearoa NZ stuff Bluesky, any ideas on manufacturer for this gas-fired plate/food warmer?
November 28, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Vintage kitchen gear/material culture/old Aotearoa NZ stuff Bluesky, any ideas on manufacturer for this gas-fired plate/food warmer?
You'll be visited by 3 spirits.
November 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
You'll be visited by 3 spirits.
Oh, I am taking this baked-looking mofo and his drunk-ass friend home for my office.
...leftovers from the playcentre garage sale...sweeeeeet.
...leftovers from the playcentre garage sale...sweeeeeet.
November 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Oh, I am taking this baked-looking mofo and his drunk-ass friend home for my office.
...leftovers from the playcentre garage sale...sweeeeeet.
...leftovers from the playcentre garage sale...sweeeeeet.
Going through a real old gumboot tea phase.
Ditched the Dilmah, finished the Choysa, and now on to the Woolies home brand.
Alpine strawbs are cranking, too!
Ditched the Dilmah, finished the Choysa, and now on to the Woolies home brand.
Alpine strawbs are cranking, too!
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Going through a real old gumboot tea phase.
Ditched the Dilmah, finished the Choysa, and now on to the Woolies home brand.
Alpine strawbs are cranking, too!
Ditched the Dilmah, finished the Choysa, and now on to the Woolies home brand.
Alpine strawbs are cranking, too!
1m LIDAR-derived hillslope of the pā under pines with terraces showing nicely, and GPSd features with not bad correspondence given it was just my S22. 0.6m accuracy with 60 sats/40 in fix
I remember when you were lucky to get 20/12 sats in fix with survey kit.
Nice to have LIDAR for the region 2.
I remember when you were lucky to get 20/12 sats in fix with survey kit.
Nice to have LIDAR for the region 2.
November 24, 2025 at 8:21 AM
1m LIDAR-derived hillslope of the pā under pines with terraces showing nicely, and GPSd features with not bad correspondence given it was just my S22. 0.6m accuracy with 60 sats/40 in fix
I remember when you were lucky to get 20/12 sats in fix with survey kit.
Nice to have LIDAR for the region 2.
I remember when you were lucky to get 20/12 sats in fix with survey kit.
Nice to have LIDAR for the region 2.
RETVRN to hand written surveyors notebooks with cute little pā drawings.
Three pages with three pā from the survey of the Maungaturoto Block in 1912. Fieldbook NA 2552 courtesy of the LINZ historic field books database.
The last one is where I was a week ago, under the pines.
Three pages with three pā from the survey of the Maungaturoto Block in 1912. Fieldbook NA 2552 courtesy of the LINZ historic field books database.
The last one is where I was a week ago, under the pines.
November 24, 2025 at 1:12 AM
RETVRN to hand written surveyors notebooks with cute little pā drawings.
Three pages with three pā from the survey of the Maungaturoto Block in 1912. Fieldbook NA 2552 courtesy of the LINZ historic field books database.
The last one is where I was a week ago, under the pines.
Three pages with three pā from the survey of the Maungaturoto Block in 1912. Fieldbook NA 2552 courtesy of the LINZ historic field books database.
The last one is where I was a week ago, under the pines.
Woah dad would have been 95 today.
The last lucid thing he said to me was "You're the only one with common sense" and I will forever be trying to live up to that.
Photos are all Ur-Dad, rocking walk shorts and other late 70s/early 80s styles. My earliest memories.
Hugh Alfred Carpenter. GC.
The last lucid thing he said to me was "You're the only one with common sense" and I will forever be trying to live up to that.
Photos are all Ur-Dad, rocking walk shorts and other late 70s/early 80s styles. My earliest memories.
Hugh Alfred Carpenter. GC.
November 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Woah dad would have been 95 today.
The last lucid thing he said to me was "You're the only one with common sense" and I will forever be trying to live up to that.
Photos are all Ur-Dad, rocking walk shorts and other late 70s/early 80s styles. My earliest memories.
Hugh Alfred Carpenter. GC.
The last lucid thing he said to me was "You're the only one with common sense" and I will forever be trying to live up to that.
Photos are all Ur-Dad, rocking walk shorts and other late 70s/early 80s styles. My earliest memories.
Hugh Alfred Carpenter. GC.
Pataua drownings rahui was made smaller today so lots of traffic coming up the coast to launch from Ngunguru and Tutukaka and now this crash. Not great.
Two engines, ambos, cops and a horses ass.
Two engines, ambos, cops and a horses ass.
November 22, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Pataua drownings rahui was made smaller today so lots of traffic coming up the coast to launch from Ngunguru and Tutukaka and now this crash. Not great.
Two engines, ambos, cops and a horses ass.
Two engines, ambos, cops and a horses ass.
Also got this sweet historic map art print of the motu.
I had grabbed a water-damaged copy of the same print on Thursday and then yesterday while I was dropping off stuff one of the mums said "There's another map come in, might be better than the other one"
Everything's coming up Jono!
/2
I had grabbed a water-damaged copy of the same print on Thursday and then yesterday while I was dropping off stuff one of the mums said "There's another map come in, might be better than the other one"
Everything's coming up Jono!
/2
November 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Also got this sweet historic map art print of the motu.
I had grabbed a water-damaged copy of the same print on Thursday and then yesterday while I was dropping off stuff one of the mums said "There's another map come in, might be better than the other one"
Everything's coming up Jono!
/2
I had grabbed a water-damaged copy of the same print on Thursday and then yesterday while I was dropping off stuff one of the mums said "There's another map come in, might be better than the other one"
Everything's coming up Jono!
/2
Was saying to the missus a few days ago that we have so much storage now me.may need a label maker.
Dropped around some mail to the lady we bought our place from yesterday and she asked me to take some boxes of stuff down to the Playcentre garage sale.
What's in the box?
1/
Dropped around some mail to the lady we bought our place from yesterday and she asked me to take some boxes of stuff down to the Playcentre garage sale.
What's in the box?
1/
November 21, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Was saying to the missus a few days ago that we have so much storage now me.may need a label maker.
Dropped around some mail to the lady we bought our place from yesterday and she asked me to take some boxes of stuff down to the Playcentre garage sale.
What's in the box?
1/
Dropped around some mail to the lady we bought our place from yesterday and she asked me to take some boxes of stuff down to the Playcentre garage sale.
What's in the box?
1/
Four really leaned into today's Colour Run. Four and half loops of the filed/obstacle course. He's getting fast.
$17,000 raised for the school.
$17,000 raised for the school.
November 21, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Four really leaned into today's Colour Run. Four and half loops of the filed/obstacle course. He's getting fast.
$17,000 raised for the school.
$17,000 raised for the school.
Waving this carrot at 17 while saying "oh-la-la" then making it do a fart is apparently very uncool.
November 20, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Waving this carrot at 17 while saying "oh-la-la" then making it do a fart is apparently very uncool.
Eeek ...an obligation pack!
November 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Eeek ...an obligation pack!
He sees dead people
November 18, 2025 at 9:31 AM
He sees dead people
Pā recorded as visible from the road in 1969, and not otherwise recorded or revisited. Base of defensive ditch with 1m scale. Under pines now but still in good nick. Dude who planted it disappeared at sea...Ohaeawai, Taitokerau
November 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Pā recorded as visible from the road in 1969, and not otherwise recorded or revisited. Base of defensive ditch with 1m scale. Under pines now but still in good nick. Dude who planted it disappeared at sea...Ohaeawai, Taitokerau
17th C whare (Māori dwelling) excavated at R10/494, Motutapu Is, Tamaki Makarau-Auckland. My fieldshool, Jan 1998, and a perfect intro to field archaeology, pre-digital recording.
And an 1885 photo of a whare in Maniapoto-King Country.
And an 1885 photo of a whare in Maniapoto-King Country.
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
17th C whare (Māori dwelling) excavated at R10/494, Motutapu Is, Tamaki Makarau-Auckland. My fieldshool, Jan 1998, and a perfect intro to field archaeology, pre-digital recording.
And an 1885 photo of a whare in Maniapoto-King Country.
And an 1885 photo of a whare in Maniapoto-King Country.
Knock knock?
Hu's there?
But seriously. When doing the last of your moving and cleaning at night in Taitokerau, dont leave your truck door open with the engine on because your phone is flat...You get a lot of hop-ons.
Hu's there?
But seriously. When doing the last of your moving and cleaning at night in Taitokerau, dont leave your truck door open with the engine on because your phone is flat...You get a lot of hop-ons.
November 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Knock knock?
Hu's there?
But seriously. When doing the last of your moving and cleaning at night in Taitokerau, dont leave your truck door open with the engine on because your phone is flat...You get a lot of hop-ons.
Hu's there?
But seriously. When doing the last of your moving and cleaning at night in Taitokerau, dont leave your truck door open with the engine on because your phone is flat...You get a lot of hop-ons.
Just absolutely squandering that new mortgage lending cashback.
...Don't tell Cook, Holm, or Venuto.
...Don't tell Cook, Holm, or Venuto.
November 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Just absolutely squandering that new mortgage lending cashback.
...Don't tell Cook, Holm, or Venuto.
...Don't tell Cook, Holm, or Venuto.
I never knew this was what I wanted to come home to.
November 10, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I never knew this was what I wanted to come home to.
We are home. Powhiri and hakari done. Blessed and welcomed by the hau kāinga. Done tika.
Only leaving in a pine box.
Only leaving in a pine box.
November 6, 2025 at 4:43 AM
We are home. Powhiri and hakari done. Blessed and welcomed by the hau kāinga. Done tika.
Only leaving in a pine box.
Only leaving in a pine box.
Translation may be a bit ropey
November 5, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Translation may be a bit ropey
This will do, all they had at Bob's
November 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
This will do, all they had at Bob's