I was back to normal today and ready to do some stuff but it was supposed to rain today. Right now it was light showers.
Can’t find the battery mount parts
I went out and fed the chickens and then decided to look for the parts to put the battery back in the Toyota. I looked in all the places the battery hold down parts should be more than once but I just couldn’t locate them.
I usually leave something like this that I’m going to need out in plain sight so I can find them, but no luck on these parts.
A break to think about it
Back in the house for a break and then back out looking some more. I finally found the parts. I’d forgotten the Toyota was parked by the garage last winter when I first started on this get er going project and that’s where I found the parts on a barrel top a bit rusty too.
Found them
Here’s the battery hold down parts I was looking for.
A bit of corrosion not good
I took the parts to the Toyota and had a look at what needed to be done. Right away I could see the hold down parts weren’t going to do me much good. The bottom of the metal tray was all rusted out and wasn’t going to hold down much of anything.
The battery tray is a bit corroded, eh.
Started in the right direction
By this time the showers had turned to rain so nothing was going to get done on this today but at least I got started in the direction I need to go.
I headed back in to the house and got some things to eat as I didn’t eat much yesterday as I wasn’t feeling well, so today I made up for that. :O)
Chickens like the rain
The chickens are coming in from a hard rain shower. They go in and out with the rain showers and seem to be able to handle the rain pretty good as they spend some time out in it as long as it’s not too hard.
I heard the mail lady drive by so I went out to see if my new phone came in or not. There was a package in the box so I grabbed it and got in out of the rain.
New antenna arrives
No phone, but my replacement antenna for the automatic front gate came in. I thought of installing it but it was really too wet so that didn’t’ happen.
What gets done on a rainy day
I think I spent more time eating and napping today but heck, it was a rainy day just right for doing those kinds of things.
Hope you get the battery hold down fixed up and useable. Rainy days are a good change of pace as long as there is not too many in a row.
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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.
Hope you get the battery hold down fixed up and useable. Rainy days are a good change of pace as long as there is not too many in a row.