I rode up into the hills with my quad runner after gathering the tools I thought I would need and stopped to see why this spring water line was plugged up. I took the connector apart and found a little piece of wood in it. That fixed that and now lots of spring water is flowing down the pipe.
Trail work
Then I drove over to this spot where I worked on repairing trails for a couple of hours.
Doing the work warmed me up nicely and I was able to remove a sweater and a shirt.
Break time
After working for a bit I took a break and walked around a bit. The little waterfall is looking good as now it has a bit of water in it. I hope to get up here to have a look during these next rain storms that are coming in tomorrow sometime.
I also sat on this redwood log until I was rested up enough to continue on. It’s a nice peaceful area. No sounds except for the sounds of the forest.
Checking roads
After a bit more work there, I got back on the quad and rode around the roads a bit.
Little rock dams
I added some rocks at some of the smaller water crossings to slow the water down and prevent larger ditches from forming. This little rock dam also catches silt which fills the ditch and makes it a smoother road crossing. The rocks are a start. I’ll continue to add more rocks to improve the dam later on when I have more time, but even just these few rocks can help improve things greatly.
Rock slide
The last rain storm we had saturated the dirt in the hills so it created this slide, so I stopped to more the rocks out of the way until I can pick them up and use them somewhere to do repairs on water drainage.
I threw off lots of little branches as I traveled along.
Tree down
But some things stopped me cold so I turned around and took another road.
Disconnecting some springs
I stopped here to open a valve to let out some spring water from the pipe I unplugged earlier as we don’t need that much water as I have another spring water line we use. That spring water line tends to get a bit murky from clay during storms so I sometimes disconnect it from the water system. The clay doesn’t hurt anything, some people buy it for medical purposes. But it keeps our water tanks cleaner if I disconnect the water.
The water valves are up in that little ravine on the other side of the quad runner which I will hike up to.
I’m headed up to the water valves and looking back down at our water tanks.
Water valves
That water line I fixed got turned out here at the valves and I’ll let it run until we need more water this summer or the rains stop and we need more water.
Culvert check and cleanout
One more stop on the way home at this culvert to check to make sure it is not plugged up as with the rain storms coming we don’t want it to plug up.
This side looks good.
But this side has some sticks that need to be removed to prevent a plug, that’s why I stopped.
Let it rain
The sticks are removed and the water is flowing nicely now. Let it rain.
I headed on home from there with some daylight still left about a half hour or so.
So, I let the chickens out into the front yard and sat around with them until it started to get 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.
