When I went out to feed the chickens this morning, I noticed a new little peep was born so I tried to get a picture of it, but the momma hid the little guy under her feathers, so I settled for this other little peep that is about a week old and will try for the other newer one later.
Warm day
The day felt a little warm so I looked at the temperature, 83, not bad. But just the same I decided to head on up into the hills where it was about ten degrees cooler with a light breeze.
Ride first
I did my dirt bike ride first. I stopped once in awhile to throw sticks and rocks off the road here and there. Good exercise that.
Here’s one of the roads I rode along while doing the dirt bike ride.
Work area
Eventually I ended up at the work area where I was doing the trail work and this was the view as I sat in the chair and rested up getting ready to do some serious work.
Hard work day
I put the other chair where I was going to work and sat down to contemplate my job, a hard one today as I wanted to remove some tree roots that were in the way.
Big tree roots
I was working on cutting these tree roots out of the ground. Dig them up and cut them off with the Pulaski, one at a time.
No use, the chainsaw
I thought of using the chainsaw on them but there is no way to cut them without dulling the chain on the first one. That’s because it’s on a hill and when the saw cuts it vibrates everything and dirt and small rocks slide down into the saw cut that dulls the saw in a short time, so I already knew that wasn’t going to work, so I used the axe part of the Pulaski to do it the hard way, one at a time as I said with lots of chair breaks.
Speaking of breaks
I was cutting this root and when I went to pry the stuck blade out of the root, the wooden handle broke and that brought all the work to a screeching halt real fast. If you look close you can see the broken handle on the Pulaski.
I have another Pulaski at home and will see about putting a new handle on the broken one.
Headed for home
At any rate, after sitting in the chair and enjoying the view, I headed on home on the dirt bike taking my broken Pulaski with me.
Tried again to get a new peep pic
Back home I needed a nap and after that I went outside to try and get a picture of the new peep.
Momma hen was still protecting the little guy so this was the best I could so.
So far she has just hatched this one chick out of the eggs she’s been sitting on. I’m hoping she hatches out another one or two.
This hen had two and are the oldest ones, a couple weeks or three, I think
This is another hen that has little peeps. I caught her picking on the new peep so gave her some hell. :O) I don’t think it did much good.
I cannot resist a new chick. They are just the cutest!!
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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.
A well used polaski.
I cannot resist a new chick. They are just the cutest!!