It was about 34 degrees F. this morning when I got it going. I’m not complaining. It’s much colder most other places and so far we only have 32 around five in the morning.
Never the less I took my time getting it going so it would warm up a bit. When I went outside, Kitty came by for a pet and a visit.
Took a ride up the hill
Just after noon, I hopped on the quad runner and headed on up the hill near my house to check on the dozer mostly as we leave it up on the hill as it’s warmer up there and easier on it as far as all the water that can condense on it. It’s warmer up there than down in the valley so there isn’t much condensation up there.
Wild pigs looking for acorns and other stuff
I went up this road and noticed the wild pigs have been rooting along looking for oak acorns on most of the roads.
Guerneville from the ridge top
I went to the top of the ridge top and took this picture of Guerneville, which is just on the other side of the green field which is a Korbel vineyard.
This is a picture facing west from that spot which is also towards the ocean and also Jenner which is just over the last mountain you can see in the back.
Dozer
From there I drove down to where I last parked the dozer which turned out to be not a good place.
Packrat nest
There was a big pile of sticks and leaves on the operators seat. I removed most of it before I remembered to get a picture of it. The Packrat had piled a big pile of oak nuts under the seat. What you see are only a few of what was left after I got most of it out so I could check the transmission oil. There was a nest in there too made out of redwood tree bark, but I messed it up while removing the sticks.
Those are the same kind of acorns the wild pigs are looking for to eat.
I started the dozer up to charge up the battery as it’s just a good idea to run it once in awhile, then moved it to another spot and pulled the seat off so light would get in there. If the rat finds it again, I hope it takes all it’s nuts away as there is a pretty big mess there. Fortunately the rat didn’t do any real damage.
Drove around the roads throwing things off the roads
I drove the quad around checking out this and that throwing things off the roads, such as rocks and tree limbs before heading on down the hill.
I went by one of my brother’s gardens on the way down which is on the other side of the fence.
Since I got a late start, I got home just before dark and that was my day for a good one.
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.
