I was planning to go down to the river and kayak today.,,,,,,,,,,,,But.
I heard a motor bike out front around noon so the plans changed.
Barry, with his two heeling cracked ribs was out in the front yard getting ready to go for a ride. He said he was tired of sitting around heeling and was going for a ride up in the hills so I got my bike out.
We are getting ready to go for that ride.
We rode around for a bit then stopped here for a short break. I’m sure Barry was feeling those ribs but I didn’t hear any ouches and he seemed to be doing ok.
Some visiting with neighbors
We rode around some more then stopped by my cousin’s place that lives up there and we did some visiting for an hour or so.
From there we rode around some more then headed for home.
Barry loaded his bike and headed for home while I headed for a nap.
After that I did some chair hopping around the yard mostly taking it easy with the chickens.
Fresh caught ocean rock fish
I was taking another nap when I heard my brother Tom outside. He’d been fishing in the ocean and a had some nice pieces of rock fish for me. Yummy.
Chicken pen repairs
About an hour before dark I finally got around to cutting some more wire to do some more repairs on the chicken’s pen.
I installed the lower wire as the old chicken wire was worn and starting to come off.
And I added wire to this gate for the same reason.
Hog nose clips
I used what they call hog nose clips to fasten the new wire which makes the job pretty easy.
Baiting rats
And the last thing I did was put some more chicken feed in the rat’s bait can with no bad stuff. I want to get all the rats back eating good stuff so they’ll let their guard down for the bad stuff. I’ve switched bait cans for that purpose just in case some of them have gotten suspicious of the other can I was using. Rodents tend to shy away from stuff they are not sure about.
There’s so much stuff I don’t know about that could have made my life easier – such as hog nose clips. But when I googled, there was some indication I needed special pliers. I am not going to be doing anything requiring any of that any more, but it still interests me anyway.
yes, it takes a little special plier to hold the clips. They are usually in the rack where they sell these in hardware stores for about ten bucks. You could close them with regular pliers, but they are hard to hold and slip out without the pliers made for them. I believe originally, they put a big one in hogs to keep them from digging things up in their pens. Ouch. :O)
Bob
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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.
There’s so much stuff I don’t know about that could have made my life easier – such as hog nose clips. But when I googled, there was some indication I needed special pliers. I am not going to be doing anything requiring any of that any more, but it still interests me anyway.
yes, it takes a little special plier to hold the clips. They are usually in the rack where they sell these in hardware stores for about ten bucks. You could close them with regular pliers, but they are hard to hold and slip out without the pliers made for them. I believe originally, they put a big one in hogs to keep them from digging things up in their pens. Ouch. :O)
Bob