I’m still feeling on the lazy worn out side today, so I’m staying home and puttering around in the yard.
Prunes
First thing this morning, I went out and noticed my prunes on the prune tree were getting ripe enough for me to start eating them, so I ate a few. Most people never see the prune in this stage, as they are mostly dried when bought at stores. They are very tasty like this and I’ll be able to snack on them for a week or two as they ripen up more.
Apricots
I checked my apricot tree as they were starting to ripen when I left on my trip a couple weeks ago and I figured they’d be all gone, but I was surprised to find a bunch of them just getting ripe and ate some of those too.
Barry shows up
Then I went back in the house for a nap until I heard a truck pull in outside. It was my brother Barry. We walked over to check his small wine grape plot and then walked through some of my other brothers garden and ate some of his strawberries too. Yum.
After Barry left, it was back on the coach for some more rest until late afternoon when I walked around the yard some more to check on what’s getting ripe.
Apples
I noticed this yellow delicious apple tree has way too many apples on it. Not ripe yet. I should thin them out if I get time.
Plums
And this plum tree has too many plums on it too, but they sure taste good.
The plums are on this one like grapes. Another good one.
Blackberries
I ate some of these blackberries that are taking over my yard. They are just starting to ripen. Yum on those too.
I need some potatoes
A little later in the evening I was thinking I should dig up some potatoes from my patch. The plants are growing so well they’ve fallen over. Almost forgot to tell you, Barry and I ate a bunch of blueberries under the white clothe there and they sure were good.
I picked this spot to dig up some taters. I just go in there and push my hands in the mulch and hunt around for the potatoes.
These are the potatoes I picked. They are yum too.
That was pretty much my day and a good one even though I could use a bit more energy. :O)
Welcome back,
I watch an interesting program put out by PBS. ” Nature: Leave It to Beaver’s “. Have you seen the documentary? They showed this one part in Colorado where they reintroduced beavers. The old lady that was raised on the property remembers the beavers before they got trapped for their pelts. She was really happy to see things go back to the way they were. Beavers are such amazing rodents, So hard-working, it’s hard to believe what they can do to change an environment. If I was going to reintroduced them to our area, the first area I would try would be the lagoon area that naturally floods in the winter. I’m not sure how the beavers would work out on Austin Creek, but it would be fun to find out. Thanks for your open-mindedness and remedies to help improve our environment and nature.
Hi Ken,
If I was to introduce the beaver I’d put as many as I could everywhere as they’ll find what they need and make it work out. The Austin Creeks would have been full of beaver in the old days. Beaver make dams when they need deeper water, but if the water is deep already, they just live there. From some research lately beaver where everywhere, even in San Francisco bay which surprised me. This link to Wikipedia tells a lot about the beaver in California.
The big thing about the beaver is we need a lot done to improve our watershed and they can do more for less than any other thing we can do. We can throw millions at projects and never accomplish what these critters are capable of doing for almost nothing. There are already some people and groups trying to get beaver back in CA.
There also seems to be a few beaver sneaking back into some of the California areas, but we would benefit big time if we helped them out a bit.
Thanks,
Bob
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There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
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.
Welcome back,
I watch an interesting program put out by PBS. ” Nature: Leave It to Beaver’s “. Have you seen the documentary? They showed this one part in Colorado where they reintroduced beavers. The old lady that was raised on the property remembers the beavers before they got trapped for their pelts. She was really happy to see things go back to the way they were. Beavers are such amazing rodents, So hard-working, it’s hard to believe what they can do to change an environment. If I was going to reintroduced them to our area, the first area I would try would be the lagoon area that naturally floods in the winter. I’m not sure how the beavers would work out on Austin Creek, but it would be fun to find out. Thanks for your open-mindedness and remedies to help improve our environment and nature.
Ken
Hi Ken,
If I was to introduce the beaver I’d put as many as I could everywhere as they’ll find what they need and make it work out. The Austin Creeks would have been full of beaver in the old days. Beaver make dams when they need deeper water, but if the water is deep already, they just live there. From some research lately beaver where everywhere, even in San Francisco bay which surprised me. This link to Wikipedia tells a lot about the beaver in California.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Fur_Rush
The big thing about the beaver is we need a lot done to improve our watershed and they can do more for less than any other thing we can do. We can throw millions at projects and never accomplish what these critters are capable of doing for almost nothing. There are already some people and groups trying to get beaver back in CA.
There also seems to be a few beaver sneaking back into some of the California areas, but we would benefit big time if we helped them out a bit.
Thanks,
Bob