Today, I went to Costco to do some shopping and then went over to visit some friends. We worked on their computers a bit and did some visiting.
I was home late in the afternoon and thought it might be a good day to do some more digging on the water line ditch I started the other day.
I dug, rested and dug and rested and dug some more. There were a lot of roots by the tree, which slowed me down a bit and played on my back too. But once I got past those nasty ol roots, the ditch started to get a bit easier to dig, if you can call digging ditches easy? :O)
There were some daffodil plants in the way which I dug up. I will separate the bulbs and replant them in the ditch when I fill it up. That should make for a nice show in the spring.
Here is the the ditch, almost twenty feet of it dug so far. I was looking at how far I have to dig the ditch and it turned out to be longer than I thought. About two hundred feet. A little at a time will get it dug. Note the clumps of daffodil plants.
I was willing to dig more, but my body was putting out signals that I should stop, so I did and just sat around and enjoyed the yard until it started to get cool with the evening.
Hi, I stumbled onto your blog today. Might be coincidence, because I need a trench dug here too!
Contemplating doing it after the frost has left the ground. There is too much water running where it shouldn’t and it needs to be drained away. Planting daffodils in the ditch is an idea!
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A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
Hi, I stumbled onto your blog today. Might be coincidence, because I need a trench dug here too!
Contemplating doing it after the frost has left the ground. There is too much water running where it shouldn’t and it needs to be drained away. Planting daffodils in the ditch is an idea!