Ok, I made a mistake on the rutabaga. A couple of commenters corrected me and when I saw Tom today he said he never said anything about a rutabaga yesterday when he told me to pick some.
Well, it’s just an older age thing. Last night when I was writing my blog I couldn’t remember what he said and rutabaga popped into my head so I looked it up. I could see the rutabaga had only one stem and the picture I had of the kohlrabi had several stems, but it was close so I went with it.
So this morning, when a commenter said they thought it was a kohlrabi, I looked that up and realized my error. Although they are a bit different it sounds like the two almost taste the same. I’ll be eating the one I picked soon.
Kohlrabi, with the multiple stems.
Dirt biking
Barry showed up this morning with his dirt bike so once I got it going I gassed up the bike and we took off for the hills. He did say his back was better after riding the other day to loosen up but his neck was still stiff, so off we went, stopping here to remove a small branch off the road.
He had something in his pack that he wanted to install up on the top of the mountains.
Getting a drink
We stopped here at the spring for a drink of water.
Fresh spring water.
Then we mounted up again and took off for a ride around the hills.
Top of the mountain
Eventually we ended up at the top of the mountain here where we usually take a good rest for a bit.
The view south.
The hammock
Barry unloaded his pack and got this hammock out to install on the trees, once he figured out which ones to use.
He’s been talking about bringing his hammock up every time we sit here so he finally did it.
He was well satisfied with his work. I took my place on the ground, which was just fine, but maybe not as nice as the hammock. :O)
After a good extra long break there, we took off and rode this trail.
Barry removes another small limb off the road and we rode on.
Water tanks
We went by the water tanks where I checked the water level. Half full or half empty is what the pink ribbon says.
Armstrong Valley Farm
Then we stopped at Tom’s garden to have a look around.
Steve, my brother’s helper was working on harvesting onions off to the right there.
From there we rode on back to my place and Barry took off for home.
Woodchips
A bit later I heard something out in the front driveway. It was Tom loading up the trailer with woodchips to move them to his garden so the guys can dump more of them here.
I took it easy for the rest of the day, chair hopping around the yard and a bit of napping too.
Well, a person’s got to be careful on their vegetable ID’s these days. I want to know how that pink ribbon knows how much is in the water tank. Glad you coasted after your ride.
I wouldn’t know a rutabaga from a potato!!! Nice hammock!!!
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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.
I too wonder about the pink ribbon.
Well, a person’s got to be careful on their vegetable ID’s these days. I want to know how that pink ribbon knows how much is in the water tank. Glad you coasted after your ride.
I wouldn’t know a rutabaga from a potato!!! Nice hammock!!!