I’ve got five hens that are broody and want to be mommas. The only problem is I have enough chicks and don’t need anymore and these hens are plugging up the egg laying boxes.
So I locked them in this little pen to keep them out of the egg laying boxes and hopefully break them of their broodiness.
Chopper
Of course the chopper is still flying out hazardous trees in the state park next door. They sure make a lot of noise with that machine. I’ll be happy when they get done with that.
Under the van
Next I got a blanket out and crawled under the van to study what I needed to do to replace the gas lines with something else.
These are some of the gas lines I want to replace and I needed to get some measurements too.
And this is the fuel pump and more gas lines to be replaced.
Water timers arrived
While I was working on that a package arrived. Five mechanical water timers for my faucets arrived. I installed three of them and have these other two to put someplace. They make it so I get the water turned off as I usually forget to turn it off.
First ripe grapes
I spotted these grapes getting ripe, the first ones this year. I ate some of them.
And my mulberry tree berries are getting ripe but I’m having a hard time finding black ripe ones so far.
Puttering in the yard
I spent a lot of the afternoon chair hopping and just taking it easy watching my chicks and walking around the yard eating berries and things.
Weeds
I pulled a few weeds in this vegetable patch for the chicks.
The chicks always dive right into the weeds.
Fertilizing
I bought some fish emulsion the other day so I mixed up a batch.
I gave these two citrus trees hiding in these weeds a good shot of the fish emulsion.
More chair hopping and taking it easy until dark when I went in the house.
Ooh those grapes! And mulberries!
Do the birds eat a lot of your fruit before you get to it?
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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.
Ooh those grapes! And mulberries!
Do the birds eat a lot of your fruit before you get to it?