Barry was coming over for a dirt bike ride today so I just did some chair hopping and puttering around the yard. I pulled some weeds for the chickens and gave them to them. This is the raspberry patch.
Sediment removal
And I worked on the sediment removal from the old well for a bit with my helpers.
South view
My view from this chair of a real nice day.
Dirt bike ride
Barry finally showed up so we got things together and headed across the road and up into the hills for a ride.
Crashed
We took the old trail I’d recently cleared and I didn’t make it up this little hill. I was too close to the edge and stopped but the bike was leaning where there was no place for a supporting foot so over I went. I had to get myself out from under it and worse than that somehow I had to get it off the hill and out of the creek so I worked on that and got it done, just barely.
Just the normal cuts and bruises
The outcome to me was two bloodied up elbows which is the usual stuff and nothing to be bothered with. Barry came back but too late to help so we continued on up the hill for our bike ride in the forest.
We rode around and eventually stopped at this spot for the view and a rest.
Nice view
Looking south from the Top of the World.
Lumber pile
When we left there we stopped at this lumber pile Barry wanted to look at as he needs some of it for a project.
Eventually we made it back to my house and Barry took off for home and I had a rest and did some more chair hopping.
Tires on the quad
Late in the afternoon I worked on getting the new quad runner tires mounted on the rims which went well as I have lots of practice now.
After that the car’s headlights needed to be replaced which should be an easy job. But.
Serviced the battery too
The bulb on the right was behind the battery so it needed to be removed which was ok as the battery terminals needed to be serviced anyway so I did what needed to be done to get the job done.
The new lights worked after I was done and tested them out so I closed things up and chair hopped the rest of the day enjoying the nice evening.
Glad your tumble wasn’t too bad. Bruises and scrapes are evidence of a ‘good’ time (?) maybe! haha
Looks like a nice day for a ride.
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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.
Glad your tumble wasn’t too bad. Bruises and scrapes are evidence of a ‘good’ time (?) maybe! haha
Looks like a nice day for a ride.