I wanted to get the spring water line in the trail ditch and at least partially buried today as if I wait very long the ditch will fill up with stuff and I’ll have a harder time burying the plastic pipe.
So I rode the quad up through here and on up the hill to where I was last working.
Work area
I parked here and walked up the trail on the right. Things aren’t quite so steep now that there is a trail ditch to walk on.
Pipe in the ditch
So the first thing I had to do was get the plastic pipe in the trail ditch. I had to take it apart where there were couplers to get it around some of the trees and into the ditch.
Burying the pipe
And then I put some dirt onto the pipe to hold it in place so I could bury it.
Pipe’s buried
I worked my way down the hill burying the pipe.
I got about half of the pipe buried. I had about 200 feet to bury so got about a hundred feet buried so far and was pretty worn out.
Done for the day
I rerouted and hooked the spring pipe into the valve system and was pretty much done for the day as it was about 5.
What it’s all about
This is what it’s all about, nice clean spring water. Yes I had a drink of it.
Appreciating the place
I was headed down the trail back to the quad when I decided this was a good place for a break so sat down and appreciated the place.
Home
Back home I rode in the driveway.
More work
I wanted to get the four or five more loads of mulch moved into the raspberry patch so I worked on that and got that done just about the time it was getting dark.
Windy up there
Looking back up into the hills where I was working today I could see the big trees doing some real swaying in the gusty wind up there.
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.
