My brother Tom told me this morning that my main gate was hitting hard and seemed to be out of adjustment. I got the manual out and looked up how to set it up properly.
It was fairly simple once I read the directions. Just pushed a couple of buttons and that should do it. I’ll test it out in the next few days to see if it’s just right or not.
Going for a ride and a hike in the forest
A bit later in the day I rode the bike up into the hills for a ride around the place.
I cut this big tree out of the road yesterday but during the night it rolled down the hill and back on the road knocking down that little tree so I couldn’t get by so I turned around and went another way. I suspected it might do that. At least it waited until I got out of the area.
Hiking and fell down here
I wanted to do some hiking around the forest to do some exploring so I parked the bike and took off on foot to his area. I was doing ok but then my foot slipped on some loose leaves and I started to fall backwards. I tried to stop that action but in the process I felt my left leg big muscle getting ready to tear or something so I did the back fall which was ok, except during the process I sure felt something rip in my leg. Ouch.
I wasn’t sure how bad my leg was going to be, but I did know it hurt a bit as I got up. Nothing to do except start the trek back out about a half mile through this kind of stuff.
I made it back to the bike and rested up there for awhile finding a nice spot to sit on the ground.
Eventually I had to get up and I wasn’t sure how that was going to be. I had to be careful and it hurt pretty good, especially getting my leg over the bike seat.
Kitty Kat
I made it home and sat down and Kitty Kat came by to say hi.
It feels like I’ll be nursing that muscle for some time. I’ll just add it to all the other things that hurt. Older age is just great, with lots of aches and pains.
Rat control
Last night I mixed some baking soda up with ground oats and barley and it wasn’t long before the rats were in it. I’m not sure just how many rats came to eat last night but they worked on it all night. I think more new rats came as the night progressed. Rats have picking orders so when one group came the other group might leave, depending on the picking order. I could tell when new rats showed up as they were real couscous compared to the rats that where there before them.
They came and went all night until about five in the morning.
Most of them weren’t afraid to dive right into the bait can.
Tonight’s action
So, tonight I mixed up some more bait and put it out to see what would happen.
There were rats that came fairly early and are still working on the bait.
Some wondering
Now, what I’m wondering is did any rats die last night? That’s the big question and the YouTube guy or anyone else on YouTube haven’t proved this stuff works, so far. And the guy that said it does work still has lots of rats so I’m skeptical.
But to be fair I can’t tell one rat from most of the other ones so I’ll keep putting out bait and watching them to see if I can tell what might be happening. Will they eat the bait and die and disappear or just get tired of the bait and disappear or not come back for some other reason?
Figuring it out
All I can do is put out more bait and watch to see if I can figure out what might be happening.
I know the plaster of Paris works
If this doesn’t look like it’s doing the job, I’ll go back to using the plaster of Paris as I know that will work as soon as they digest it. And if the baking soda works and blows them up it should do that on the first night too. So are these just new rats showing up or maybe rats that only ate a little last night.
I can’t tell for sure but it seems like there may be fewer of them tonight, maybe. :O)
Sorry about your tumble. Hope your leg doesn’t take too long to heal. Lucky you had the bike to get you back home at least! There’s always a hidden blessing, isn’t there? :)
Look at all those rats! Too bad there wasn’t dripping paint to mark them as they went in the bait can. Haha. Good luck!
I’m with Nancy, I sure wouldn’t want them to die around the house.
Plaster of Paris? I’m laughing … yeah I think that will work!!! My only problem is they will probably die under the house … maybe I’ll stick with the traps.
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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.
I too thought about dripping paint marks. Hope your leg is feeling better.
Glad you didn’t hit your head. Though perhaps, that is the hardest part of your body. Your perseverance suggests that.
Sorry about your tumble. Hope your leg doesn’t take too long to heal. Lucky you had the bike to get you back home at least! There’s always a hidden blessing, isn’t there? :)
Look at all those rats! Too bad there wasn’t dripping paint to mark them as they went in the bait can. Haha. Good luck!
I’m with Nancy, I sure wouldn’t want them to die around the house.
Plaster of Paris? I’m laughing … yeah I think that will work!!! My only problem is they will probably die under the house … maybe I’ll stick with the traps.