I needed to find my brother’s helper this morning to ask him some questions about his bee hives so I went over to my brother’s garden. looking for him.
I looked in this garden first but he wasn’t there. His cover crop of mustard is about six feet high.
So I walked on over to his other garden and found Steve planting potatoes so I got the bee hive information I wanted.
Ridiculous shipping charge
So I went back to my house and looked up what I wanted for his hive and didn’t like what I found out. They wanted 81 dollars for the part and 94 dollars to ship it. There was no reason for the shipping to be that high so I’ll have to do some more research and see if I can find the part some where else.
Chicken feed
Next I needed to get some more chicken feed and then go help my older brother Mike replace his old swimming pool pump that had gone bad.
So I drove on over to the feed store and they loaded up my car with the stuff I feed my chickens, oats, barley, milo, millet and black oil sun flower seeds. I had a car load.
Then on the way to my brother’s I stopped at a new grocery store and bought two heads of cabbage. The new store had a deal and I got two heads for a 1.98 total.
Mike’s place
It was on to Healdsburg where Mike lives to fix his pump problem. Mike’s just starting to get Parkinson’s so has some trouble messing with this stuff anymore.
Replacing the pump
We had to replace the old pump on the left with the new pump on the right. Things were going good until one of his plastic hose fittings cracked from age when I tried to get it off the pump hose.
Testing the pump
Fortunately we were able to use an old hose end in it’s place and get the pump replaced. We got it all back together and turned it on to test it and it looked ok as far as leaks.
He left it running and we went over to his porch and shot the bull for a bit then went back and checked the pump for leaks.
Things leak
Both fittings going into the pump that he installed before I got there were leaking just a little. I had him find some better sealer and I took things apart and applied the better sealer and tightened things up and gave it another test. It passed this time.
Citrus fruit
Mike grows quite a bit of citrus that my brother Tom sells at the farmers market.
Here’s part of his citrus grove in his back yard.
We picked some citrus before I left for home. Yummy
Headed home
I tried to visit one more friend on the way home but his gate was locked meaning he wasn’t home so I went on home.
Restocking the chicken feed shed
I did some resting up and just before dark I sweep out my feed shed.
And then moved all the feed I just bought into it. Now it’s nice and full for awhile. Happy chickens.
It is always nice to stock up on food stuff, whether it be for you or the ‘family’. :)
Good to help your brother with the pool pump and wow, what an orchard he has! There is so much fruit on those trees.
Sounds like a good day and you got things accomplished with a bit of visiting too.
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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.
It is always nice to stock up on food stuff, whether it be for you or the ‘family’. :)
Good to help your brother with the pool pump and wow, what an orchard he has! There is so much fruit on those trees.
Sounds like a good day and you got things accomplished with a bit of visiting too.