I heard something outside around noon. It was my brother Barry with his dirt bike going for a ride up in the hills. I just got up so I decided not to go and get something to eat instead.
Barry had a little project for me to weld up. He just needed a nut welded onto a quarter inch threaded rod, so I did that after I got something to eat.
Where’s my wiring harness
After eating I made a call to the guys back East that are building my computer wiring harness for the van that got burned up. I wanted to see when it would ship as I need it soon if I want to make a trip Marty and I are planning.
To my surprise I told the lady my name and she said it just shipped, she did it fifteen minutes ago. I got an email saying it would arrive Monday but later got another one saying it would arrive this Friday, even better.
Baffle work
I had one more baffle to make for the van’s radiator, the bottom one. I got all the measurements and cut out a piece of sheet steel to form what I needed. I drilled the three mounting holes too.
I tried it out and it fit pretty good. I have a few more holes to drill in the other baffles and some tweaking to do and maybe some paint and that should be completed, maybe tomorrow.
New freezer
I got an email in the afternoon saying my new freezer would arrive on time so that was also good, as one never knows when one will get things these days.
Chicks
In the evening I checked on the chicks that were in for the night. They sure are growing fast.
Hens
And the hens were all in their roost for the night.
Sundown
It was a warm day but it almost always cools off around here in the late afternoon. It did so, so I chair hopped around the yard as the sun went behind the hills to the west.
And the moon popped up to make it’s swing to the west.
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.
