I’ve had the urge for some chocolate ice cream lately but they haven’t had the one brand that I can eat, Tillamook Chocolate. They’ve only had chocolate this and chocolate that, which all of corn products in them, but no just plain chocolate for over a couple of weeks now. I was hoping to finally find the right one.
Visiting
It was lunch time so I decided to go visit John and Cheryl S. for a bit on the way, so I’d be at the store after lunch time so it wouldn’t be so busy.
We had a nice visit. They were taking care of their new grand daughter.
Ice cream
I lucked out and they had plain chocolate. I bought two of them and went home and devoured almost all of one of them. :O)
Hunting for tires
I spent several hours today hunting up tires on the internet for my dirt bike. I used the search engines on a couple webpages that sell tires, but it was giving me the wrong tire sizes which took me a bit to figure out why.
It turned out I thought my bike was 140L but eventually I tried one of the other choices and the right size tires showed up. So, I discovered my bike was actually a 140g.
I typed in the make of the tire my brother Barry had purchased recently and things started to come together. I ordered one for the back and one for the front.
Tires$$$$
Tires have gone up a lot. Barry bought a larger tire than what I needed for 80 bucks a few months ago and my smaller tire was a hundred bucks. My other brother Tom said he just bought tires for his truck which used to be just over 800 buck for four of them and now they were over 1400 dollars. If you want them, you just have to pay the price.
I’d had enough of looking for tires, so I decided to ride up the hill and see what my trail cam got.
Tanks
I stopped at our water tanks to check the water level. They were almost full but I noticed the water gauge wasn’t working very well. I’ll have to bring a ladder up soon to go up to the top of the tanks and see what’s wrong and fix the problem.
Another cam
I added another cam to this spring on the way up the hill. You can see it there overlooking the water.
Trimming roads
I continued on up the hill and stopped at a couple spots to trim some branches off the road, in this spot first.
And then I did this spot.
I made it up to where I had the other trail cam setup.
I got a drink and when I checked the trail cam, this was the only critter on it. Me, getting a drink of water. At least I have the cam adjusted right now.
Lost ridge
From there I rode around the hills a bit and stopped on this flat to trim some more brush. I’d build a cabin on this spot, if I didn’t already have a house nearby.
I headed towards home down this trail.
Creek
On the way, I stopped at this creek to check it out.
And at the bottom of the hills, I stopped at these old apple trees to get a couple of apples to eat.
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.
