I tended the chickens and shortly Marty drove in the driveway so we sat around and did some visiting shooting the bull. Of course we ate some cherries and raspberries and even a few blueberries.
A bit later I said lets throw a couple chairs in the Toyota and drive up into the forest and we can sit around and visit and I can get another load of rocks hauled to the crossing.
Toyota breaks, so no go, but
I tried to start the Toyota and the throttle cable broke at the carbonator so I said ok, I guess we aren’t going and so we sat down for a bit.
Fix it
After some thought I figured I could get the throttle cable repaired in about fifteen minutes or so it the parts weren’t rusted and frozen up so I got some tools and was able to get the cable apart and get it working again, good enough to go.
Visiting spot
We drove on up to this spot where I’d been working on getting an old trail open and pulled out the chairs and discussed a trip we want to make in the fall among other stuff, mostly bull.
From there we drove up the road a bit and parked here and put the chairs out for a spell.
We sat here looking down the hill below us.
Loading up rocks
We were taking it easy and running out of time so I drove on over to where there was some big rocks I wanted to load to fix a water crossing going down this road.
I put Marty in a chair and told him to supervise and stay out of the way while I loaded up the rocks.
I loaded half the rocks and left the rest for another load.
Unloading rocks
We left and headed down the hill to this water crossing.
I told Marty to sit down and watch but he did help unload some of the smaller stuff and we got it done.
It seems we’d used up the day so we headed back to my house.
Marty took off for home and I took off for a short nap.
After that it was chair hopping and eating more cherries and berries for me until it got dark.
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.
