When I went out this morning to care for the chickens I noticed the sky was real blue today.
Play day
What to do today? I had lots of things I could do but they were all work so I thought I should do something different, like play today but I wasn’t sure what to do.
I went back in the house and got something to eat.
Problem solved
When I came back out around noon my brother Barry was there with his dirt bike. Perfect.
I got the dirt bike out and joined him.
We crossed over the highway and went through a gate and up this road headed for the hilly country.
Any wild mushrooms out yet
It’s the start of wild mushroom season so we checked some areas out to see if they’d started to come up yet. We rode up to this spot where there was a gate across the road so we stopped and got off the bikes to look around for mushroom in the fresh forest fire burn area.
Dirt bike ride is on
it appeared to be too early for mushrooms but while we were looking we heard a dirt bike pull up and come through the locked gate. It turned out to be our neighbor Rob.
He was out for a dirt bike ride and was headed for another neighbor’s place, Jim’s. So we joined him and headed for Jim’s place. On the way he and Barry headed for a fire break so I said I’d meet them at Jim’s and we split and I headed to Jim’s place and I got there first.
Jim’s place
Shortly they came riding up the road to Jim’s place.
No one was home at Jim’s place so we made some plans to ride to some other neighbors further out through the forest.
Tire needs air
But as we were leaving Rob comes over and starts checking out my bike’s front tire and says it’s flat. I check it and it’s pretty low on air all right.I said I’d see them later as I needed to go home and get some air in the tire. Rob says Jim should have an air pump so we looked in his shop for an air compressor and sure enough he had one.
Aired up
We aired the tire which seemed to hold air and took off headed for some other neighbors going out this road.
And down this road just entering another neighbors place who lives up on the ridge tops.
We pulled into the neighbor’s. We’d met these folks during the recent forest fire so we had a good visit.
More than one Top of the World
This is the view from their place. That high mountain about in the middle is what we call Top of the World. Of course they call their place the Top of the World.
Headed home
We were visiting away and it was going to get dark soon so finally we forced ourselves on the bikes and on the way home going lickity split all the way saying good bye to Rob on the way.
Barry lost me somewhere on the way but I caught up to him just before getting back to my place.
Barry got his bike loaded and headed on home and I went in the house for a nap.
At dark I went out and closed up the chickens and that was my day.
I would totally agree that it was the perfect play day!!
I’d be interested to know what kind of temperatures you are getting up there, Bob.
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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.
I’m so envious…….20* and a bunch of that white stuff is on the ground here…
I would totally agree that it was the perfect play day!!
I’d be interested to know what kind of temperatures you are getting up there, Bob.