Barry came over early today to go for a dirt bike ride by himself as he wanted to go ride up in the steeper stuff where I don’t need to go.
He was back in an hour or so and then I joined him for a ride on the less steep stuff.
After riding around a bit, we made it up to our rest area for a break.
It was a pretty nice day out.
Barry says, let’s go. It’s hard for me to get photos during the ride as I’m too busy staying on the bike, but we do go through some nice areas.
After Barry left for home, I went in for a nap as riding a dirt bike in the hills does tire one out. It’s a lot of work just staying on the bike in the hills, so one does get quite a bit of exercise even though there is no pedaling involved.
That nap took longer than I thought before I got it going again.
Power
I worked on getting some power to my new welding work bench but didn’t get it all done as I think I need some more wire to get it hooked up, which I don’t have yet.
Apple time
Apples are getting ripe. I went over to my neighbors to steal some as those are the best ones. Lots of the apples have fallen. They pick them up to make apple cider vinegar out of them.
But I like the ones on the tree so I picked a few of them. These apples are not sprayed and some have worm holes in them. Most people don’t know that if you can see a worm hole, the worm has left the apple, so you just eat around the hole. That’s the trade off for no spray on the apples. If you look carefully, you can usually fine some without any hoes in them which means that no worms got into those ones or there would be holes like in the other ones. They all leave about the same time, so this works.
This is my apple stash that I’ll eat from throughout the day when I have an apple urge.
Bike riding will definitely keep you in shape … and it’s fun to boot!! Those apples … wow!! That’s one thing we never had … fruit trees. Those trees are producing like CRAZY!!
Yes, a dirt bike is some exercise. For sure. Lovely apples, hope some are tart. Impossible to get tart ones here in TX. A long time ago, there were some in the groceries, but no longer. When I lived in NY, I was amazed to see apples lying all over the place, getting run over, ignored, etc. Such richness.
We’ve also been overwhelmed with the number of apples this year. For us, it is more than I’ve ever seen up here in our 8 years. What will you make, Bob?
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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.
Bike riding will definitely keep you in shape … and it’s fun to boot!! Those apples … wow!! That’s one thing we never had … fruit trees. Those trees are producing like CRAZY!!
Yes, a dirt bike is some exercise. For sure. Lovely apples, hope some are tart. Impossible to get tart ones here in TX. A long time ago, there were some in the groceries, but no longer. When I lived in NY, I was amazed to see apples lying all over the place, getting run over, ignored, etc. Such richness.
We’ve also been overwhelmed with the number of apples this year. For us, it is more than I’ve ever seen up here in our 8 years. What will you make, Bob?