As I went out the front door this morning I saw my brother Barry out there with his dirt bike. He was going for a dirt bike ride up in the hills.
I quickly fed the chickens and joined him and we rode up into the hills on this road.
And along here headed up to the top.
Top of the World
After riding for awhile we stopped at this spot for a break which is called Top of the World.
This is why it’s called Top of the World looking out from that spot.
After a good break we got back on the bikes and rode some more.
Down this ridge top road.
And down this road, we move along pretty fast.
After about an hour and a half we headed on home on this road.
We made it back. Barry loaded up and went on home after I gave him a flat of eggs.
Napping
Well that dirt bike ride wore me out so I mostly napped on and off during the afternoon.
Eventually I went out to do some stuff with the chickens.
Chicken attack
I was putting feed down when the hen in the back attacked me with a vengeance because of her little chicks. I grabbed her and there was a lot of squawking you’d think I was the one doing the attacking. Once I had her subdued I held her for a bit until she calmed down then let her go.
She had 7 new chicks yesterday but today she had 8 so one more was born a bit late.
New peep
This is the late new born. They need to rest a bit until they get enough strength to move around which takes a day or so.
Just before dark the chickens all go to roost for the night. Here’s some of the younger ones in the roost.
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.
