I washed my socks when I first got up this morning and put them out on the asphalt to dry in the sun. It’s a man’s way of drying socks as I don’t have a dryer.
Improving the grow panels
Next I needed to fix up my grow panels as they need sides. Without sides the chickens are getting to the plants and pulling them out. The smaller chickens even crawl under the wire and eat stuff. Chickens also have long necks so can get under there and reach in a long way so they need sides. I could of used wood, but steel would last longer.
I cut some rebar and welded it on a panel then cut some wire to fasten it onto the rebar. I used the hog clips to fasten the wire to the rebar. I had to cut a lot of wire to get the small strips I needed.
Here’s a 3 x 4 foot panel I made better with the sides.
Planted some seed
I turned over some soil and planted some seed and put the panel back into action. I need to repair the rest of them when I get time and get some stuff growing in them.
Working on the fence gates
After a break I welded up some rebar for some fence gates for my chicken grazing pen I’m working on. Welding is hard on my back so I stopped at this point for the day and will finish them tomorrow, maybe.
Mowing grass for mulch
Late in the afternoon I gassed up my weed mower and cut my neighbors grass to get some mulch for my chickens.
I put the mulch in the new mulch pen and let the chickens at it.
Here’s the chickens after they’ve worked over the grass a bit.
With the time change it got dark early so I quit for the day.
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.
