I thought I’d do a little painting on the top of my van, so I got the stuff out. But I decided it was too breezy to do any painting so I thought I’d wait until evening but it was even breezier, so not today.
Armstrong Valley Farm
I went over to see what my brothers Barry and Tom where up to. I found them in Tom’s hothouse getting some plant starts.
Tom has been busy planting stuff for the season and has quite a lot planted already.
Another part of the garden.
And another garden all planted.
We all went over to Tom’s place to help him unload some stuff off his truck.
The reward was he had a bunch of fresh strawberries getting ripe.
Rode up into the hills to check another new spring
I just wanted to check out this spring to see about tapping it, so I rode on up to where it was to have a look. This one would be much easier to tap than the other new spring I’ve been working on that the dirt has slid down on a couple times, as it’s just coming out of a small hole in the hillside, so there is very little I have to do to tap this one.
I cleaned it out a little with my hands and feet and made a small dam to see how much water was coming out of the hill. Looks pretty good and I was thinking of a drink of water.
I hadn’t planned on it, but this one was so simple to get a temporary tap, I rode on over a short distance to where I had some black pipe pieces to pick one up.
I selected a piece of pipe I thought would work and headed back to the spring to hook it up.
Quick and dirty
All I had to do was put the pipe in the dam and put some rocks on it to hold it in place.
And in a few minutes I had a good flow of water coming out the pipe.
Pretty simple hookup to get better drinking water than most people in the world get to drink.
I’ll do a better job of tapping it later as this one will be real easy compared to the other one I’ve been working on.
And yes, I did get a real good drink of that water before heading home.
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.
