I was going kayaking today, but it got canceled as Steve was wore out from kayaking yesterday.
So I got up and took care of the chickens.
Testing out the smoker
Then I set up the smoker for a trial run. I haven’t used the smoker in quite a few years so I needed to test things out. I used apple wood for smoke and smoked all day.
Chick protection
I’ve been trying to introduce the little chicks with the big chicks. They need some protection from the bigger chicks so I brought these chucks of wood to the chicken pen and set them up so only the smaller chicks can get behind them. The big chicks like them to sit on.
More of the chunks of wood with the big chickens checking them out.
Here’s another view of some of the wood chucks I installed.
Getting the wood in
I spent a good part of the day hauling firewood to the firewood pile. This is wood I cut in the yard throughout the year and it needs to get in this pile so I can cover it up when it rains later in the year.
Making a big pot of soup
Towards evening, I cut up a bunch of vegetables and put them in a big pot to boil for a couple hours to make a nice vegetable soup which is still on the stove cooking away.
Just before dark I took the stuff out of the smoker to let it cool but haven’t tried it yet. I did some fish in it with salt and sugar.
Nice to protect those small chicks with the wood chunks.
Smoked fish sounds like a treat! And your soup will be good for a few supper meals.
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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.
Nice to protect those small chicks with the wood chunks.
Smoked fish sounds like a treat! And your soup will be good for a few supper meals.