I was sitting out in my yard enjoying the morning when a car drove in my yard.
It was Ken and his dog. They came by for a visit. We shot the bull for a bit, then changed chairs.That’s were they are heading. We shot the bull for a bit more, then they took off.
Graphs
I went over to see how my brother’s graphs were doing since he put goop on them to seal them up. They look good but you have to keep checking on them to make sure no cracks have formed that would dry them out.
The day was starting out real nice as I sat in this chair checking out the sky.
I let the chickens into the blueberry pen this morning so they can clean up all the weeds before I put some more mulch in there.
Then I picked up these raspberry vine trimmings and put them in the pile I have for that kind of stuff.
Fixing the old Quad runner
Next, I went over to have a look at the old quad runner, I was putting back into service. I was just going to have a look but I got started on trying to find out why it won’t start.
Fixed the headlight too
While I was working on it, I found the head light didn’t work os I took it apart and cleaned up these bulb contacts and put it back together.
The bulb lite up when I tested it. I put that back together.
Testing for spark
Next, I pulled the park plug and tested it for spark. When I turned it over, it had spark, which was good. I put the spark plug back in the engine.
I had only put a small amount of gas in the tank so I added some more, just to make sure I had enough in there.
I hit the start button and it fired a bit. I kept hitting the start button until it was running smoothly. That was good. Now I need a new battery for it.
Hanging strawberry pots
I have three hanging pots that I also have strawberries in, so I decided to change the soil in them also. This is another way to hang strawberry plants if you don’t want to make something to do it.
I mixed up some soil so it would have a bunch of mulch in it and put the new soil in the pots with the dormant plants.
Yes, like Nancy I am missing the enjoyment of growing food. Seeing your strawberry pots, I was tempted, but the climate and my age have taken their toll. My grandmother used to grown strawberries in the actual ground. Don’t know anybody who does it around here anymore. I don’t know if everybody’s gotten as lazy as me, or if it’s just too hot! Glad you are enjoying your Eden.
You make me miss my garden. I used to love growing crazy things like peanuts and purple potatoes.
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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, like Nancy I am missing the enjoyment of growing food. Seeing your strawberry pots, I was tempted, but the climate and my age have taken their toll. My grandmother used to grown strawberries in the actual ground. Don’t know anybody who does it around here anymore. I don’t know if everybody’s gotten as lazy as me, or if it’s just too hot! Glad you are enjoying your Eden.
You make me miss my garden. I used to love growing crazy things like peanuts and purple potatoes.