My bother Barry came by around noon with his dirt bike. He was going for a ride up into the hills to look for mushrooms. I didn’t sleep well last night so I elected to stay home and nap most of the day.
Crab snare construction
He’d been working on the snares for our crab snares we’re making.
Here’s a sample of one of the snare loops that will get attached to the wire bait cage. There will be six of the snares attached when it’s all done as that’s the limit in California on how many snares loops are allowed. The idea is to cast this rig out and the crab attack it and get some part of them in one or more of the snares. When the snare is pulled in with a fishing rod, the loops tighten up when pulled and there’s something in them and maybe you have dinner if they are big enough. Bait cage with one loop to demonstrate.
I gave him all the cages I’d poured lead in so he could take all the stuff home to finish off the rigs with the snare loops.
Grazing chickens
Between naps I puttered around the yard a bit with the chickens.
They’ll have this pile of woodchips all torn up and scattered all over the yard as it’s one of their favorite spots to scratch and look for stuff to eat.
The winter’s green grasses are starting to come up which they like and will keep it mowed down.
Barry came back later and didn’t find any mushrooms but had a nice ride. We made arrangements to go kayaking later in the week with his wife so she can try out his new Hobbie kayak he just got. It has pedals so one can free up hands to fish or throw crab snares out to catch crab.
At dark the chickens were all in and on the roost so I shut them up and went on in the house and that was my day for a lazy one.
You are such a good chicken Dad!!! Thanks for the crab snare lesson. I’ve never seen that before!!
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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.
You are such a good chicken Dad!!! Thanks for the crab snare lesson. I’ve never seen that before!!