Barry showed up this morning so we went for a ride up into the forest.
But first we stopped to see Tom for a bit. He was planting some stuff in his garden. Garlic and cabbage I think.
We left Tom at it and rode on up into the hills taking this trail.
Trail cam mounts
I’d gotten these new trail cam mounts a few days ago so I put up two more trail cams to try them out.
They screw into wood/trees and have a swivel on them to adjust the cam. So far, I like them real well.
Drink time
After putting the two trail cams up we rode around a bit and stopped at this spring for a drink of water.
Some more riding around and we made it up to our break area for a break.
We were headed back when we ran into this small tree across the road.
We stopped to see how Tom was doing planting his garden. He was just finishing up and taking a break.
Potatoes
Tom offered Barry some potatoes.
So they dug some up.
Stump
Barry took off for home and I rode back up to this pipeline trail I’ve been working on getting opened up.
This stump is on the trail and needs to be removed.
I decided to dig it out and cut the small roots to get it out.
I worked on that for a bit until I needed a break. It will take a few more times working on it before I get it out of the way.
Then I walked down the trail a bit as there was something else I wanted to work on.
Old dam
There used to be a dam in the creek here to catch the spring water. I wanted to try and get the steel pipes out of the creek. There was also a big redwood log laying under the pipes that needed to go, so I worked on chopping it up with the Pulaski.
I chipped away at the redwood log until I got tired out. It was a good start, but it’s going to take some more work. I’m not sure how the pipes are stuck in there, but they are pretty solid.
That was enough work for one day. I rode on home and sat with the chickens in the yard.
Yes, I would agree that was enough work. So was Tom’s; argh, the bending over. Still entranced by water coming out of the mountain in so many places.
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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.
Yes, I would agree that was enough work. So was Tom’s; argh, the bending over. Still entranced by water coming out of the mountain in so many places.