The other day I blew the redwood leaves off my house roof and made this mess on the ground that is a fire danger to the house.
Today was started by me raking this up and putting it in the wheelbarrow and hauling it to my mulberry tree to be used as mulch.
It only took two loads and that was done.
Next I got the tools out and measured and cut some fence wire to wire off a small enclosure in the chicken pen for the rat bait that the little chicks can’t get into. I got that installed and did some chair hopping.
The afternoon was taking up chair hopping around the yard and cooking up something to eat.
I was thinking of going for a dirt bike ride up into the hills just before dark so I did some more chair hopping waiting for the sun to go down behind the hills to the west of me before setting off on that ride.
I went by our water tanks to check the water level which was full so I need to do more watering in the yard.
I rode on past the water tanks and up that road and headed on up to the hilltops where the sun was still shining.
And stopped here at the Guerneville overlook to have a look as the sun continued on down.
Then I rode on up to the higher point and tried the hammock out for a bit as the sun continued on down to the west. This is looking south from the hammock.
The sun finally went behind the hills to the west so it was time to continue my ride around a few more roads before it got too dark.
It was still light enough to get a good view with the sun just gone down.
I jumped on the dirt bike and rode around some more.
And got one more sunset from another hill top.
The roads were starting to darken as I rode around the hills a bit.
I didn’t have a light on the dirt bike so I didn’t want to stay out too much longer so headed down this road towards home.
Rat control
New enclosure
Here’s the new enclosure I put the wire around today to keep the checks out of the rat bait so I can leave the bait out longer so the rats can eat more of it and I don’t have to mess with it late at night.
The rats didn’t take too long to find it. As you can see the rats are still healthy and like the bait.. The rats seem to like open containers more than things that are closed up that might seem like more of a trap to them so they are very cautious on closed or covered stuff.
This setup should work much better than my other setup. We’ll see.
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.
