Once I got it going today I went out and put food in the peeps pen so momma and the peeps would have something to eat. So far I still have three peeps but momma is still sitting on a few eggs.
Here’s a couple of the little peeps on some logs. They run around the logs a lot so the logs are working out better than expected as they were only put in there to hold the cage in place.
Noisy car axle
My cars right rear axle is making more noise sooner than I expected since I last checked on it so I put some grease into the boot with my needle grease gun. After thinking about that a bit I went in and ordered a new axle online.
Watering
I puttered around the yard a bit turning on some sprinklers and doing a bit of chair hopping.
Removing the bulkhead work
Eventually I got to work on the failed bulkhead. I was able to get most of the rock out of the ditch. Some of the rocks were too big to lift so I had to roll them up the hill with much breaks in between rocks.
Broke the saw
I need to remove all the metal stuff there so I got my hand band saw out and powered it up. The saw cuts pretty fast but after cutting one of the six inch channels the saw stopped spinning so I took it apart and found the gear in the drive hub was plastic and had stripped out so that was it for that.
A replacement saw maybe
My brother Tom came by and said he had another hand band saw but the switch was a bit faulty. If I wanted to fix the switch he’d drop it off. I’m hoping his better band saw has metal gears and I can fix the switch without too much trouble.
By the time he brought the saw by it was too late in the day to do anything about trying to fix the on off switch which I’ll likely do tomorrow or at least give it a try.
Checking out another job
Since I couldn’t cut any metal I checked out what I need to do to replace an old electrical panel I need to replace. I bought the parts for that the other day now I just need to do it.
Chair hopping
In the evening I just sat around in the yard enjoying the nice spring day.
Small jobs taken care of and more for tomorrow.
I love the baby peeps!
Chair hopping, nice to do that once in a while especially outdoors on a warm spring day.
I’m still waiting for the ‘warm’ part to arrive.
Always something to fix, no matter where you are. Plastic gear on the band saw, hmm what were they thinking?
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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.
Small jobs taken care of and more for tomorrow.
I love the baby peeps!
Chair hopping, nice to do that once in a while especially outdoors on a warm spring day.
I’m still waiting for the ‘warm’ part to arrive.
Always something to fix, no matter where you are. Plastic gear on the band saw, hmm what were they thinking?