I was talking on the phone this morning when I heard a knock at the door. It was Barry ready to go for a ride up into the forest.
We rode around a bit.
Fog
This was the view south from a ridge top. Notice the fog sneaking in from the Pacific ocean.
Trail Cams
We rode over to where I had some trail cams and started hunting for the one I had misplaced. While I was getting the card out of one of them, Barry says here’s one. That was the one I couldn’t remember where it was. Nothing much on any of them.
Visiting
After some more riding around we headed over to my cousin’s place for a visit. We sat at the table outside with this view to the west. We shot the bull for a couple of hours when I cried uncle, let’s go riding.
We rode around a bit then headed up to our ridge top rest area where we rested up a bit. After a good rest we took off again and ended up at this small creek which is at the top of our little waterfall. I wanted to check out the water in the holes. There was a little water, just enough to keep the waterfall wet, but that’s all.
By that time we’d had a good ride so headed back to my house. It was late in the day when we got there so Barry took off for his home and I went in for a nap.
Eggs
A bit later, I went over to collect the eggs from my brother’s chickens and put some more bait in his rat station.
Rats
I checked my rat bait station when I got home, but it still had plenty of bait. I seem to have my rat problem under control, thanks to the bait station I constructed. Rats are a never ending problem so I keep bait in it so when they show up from my neighbors or out of the forest, there’s something for them to devour. That’s the only thing I’ve discovered that works on rats. Every other method I tried failed badly as rats are just too darn smart to fall for traps and such. And baking soda and plaster of Paris failed completely.
My rat question has been answered. Glad they are under control.
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Header Pictures
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.
My rat question has been answered. Glad they are under control.