I had planned to do some stuff in the yard today but I couldn’t remember what it was.
So whatever it was it couldn’t be too important or needed done too badly.
Instead I loaded the tools on the quad runner and rode on up into the hills where I’ve been working burying the spring water pipes.
I parked here at the work area.
Covering it up
I started here burying the water line covering it up with dirt.
And worked my way down the water line trail covering things up as I went.
Got a nice little trail
The pipe got buried and I got a trail.
I continued down the trail burying the pipe as I went by pulling the dirt down from the upper hill side. See the rock in the back.
Rock pile
That’s to mark where the pipe has a coupler in it so I know where they are.
Around 4:30 the sun went over the mountain and it started to darken up a bit. I’d done enough work for the day burying about a 150 feet of water line so I sat around a bit just enjoying the nice peaceful forest while the rest of the world is going mad. :O)
Christmas trees
I took a different road back going through here, mostly fir trees also known as Christmas trees around here.
Water in the tanks
I stopped by our water tanks to check the water level and make sure the work we did on the input lines was working out. The tanks were 3 quarters full so that was good. See the pink ribbon. It marks the reverse of what it is.
Things looked good at the water tanks so I rode on home going down this road.
Yummy apples
On the way I stopped at one of my brother’s gardens as I knew there were some good winter apples there, so I picked a couple. Yummy, very crisp and flavorful.
Once I made it home it was almost dark so I shut the chickens in their pens and walked around the yard for a bit and then went in for the day.
All that exercise makes you strong! Great job you’re doing … I love the idea of a trail. It’s why I get up so early in the morning … to sit outside in the quiet. If there ever is another fire, you’re covered.
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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.
All that exercise makes you strong! Great job you’re doing … I love the idea of a trail. It’s why I get up so early in the morning … to sit outside in the quiet. If there ever is another fire, you’re covered.