It was such a nice day out I just puttered around the yard and chair hopped for a couple hours once I fed the chickens.
Some work and exercise
But around two or so I was feeling like accomplishing something today while the weather is good as some rain storms are coming in soon.
A little exercise would be good too so I took my Toyota up into the hills to gather some rocks for the washed out crossing I’ve been working on.
Rocks
I knew where there were some more rocks to gather from a little road slide so I drove on up there and parked here and loaded up all these rocks.
It wasn’t enough to fill my rig up so I backed into this spot to pick up the rocks laying around.
There were a few big rocks laying on the road which I got loaded.
Plugged spring water line
While I was resting up a bit I heard some water running just below where I was loading the rocks. It seems there is a plugged up water line as water was shooting out an air vent.
I walked down and had a look to see if it was something I could fix but I didn’t have any tools with me to take the line apart to find out what was plugging the line up. I didn’t find anything pinching the line so there must be something that has gotten inside the line.
We have plenty of spring water coming down the hill in another water line so this can wait to get fixed at a later time.
No rocks here
The Toyota still was not full of rocks so I drove up to this spot where I knew there where some nice rocks,………. But.
I’d forgotten I already had picked up this bunch of rocks.
On up the road
I knew where there where some more rocks way up the hill so I started heading that way but found a couple other spots on the road to gather rocks, like this spot.
Load of rocks
I was able to fill up the rig nicely at this spot so I headed back down the hill to the crossing I was working on.
The crossing
Here I am at the crossing I’ve been repairing with rocks and am now ready to unload these rocks.
Finishing up and getting dark
It was starting to get dark as I finished up unloading the rocks.
We’ll see how this holds up during the rain storms that are on their way. It should be ok but sometimes making little adjustments can improve things after seeing how the water flows.
My rigs headlights don’t work so I hurried on home.
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.
