I decided to stay home today and enjoy what’s right in front of me.
After a slow time getting it going, I did some chair hopping in my yard for awhile, mostly minding the water as I watered things in the yard.
I wasn’t feeling especially motivated today, so a nap was in order and some more chair hopping.
In the afternoon, I got enough energy to hop on my quad runner for a little ride in the forest. I thought I’d check on the spring water flow to see how it was doing and I wanted to see how the roads were holding up and where there were trees down that needed to be cleared, so off I went.
This is the road I took to get up the hill, not much traffic.
I rode on up to the top of the hill and took this picture of where the town of Guerneville is, at the end of that green field which is a grape vineyard of Korbel Winery’s.
On the way back down the hill, I checked out this road through the trees. A bit of tree wood, but not too bad.
I went on by this spot where a big fir tree fill a few years ago and blocked the road.
And not far from that, I ran into my first tree blockage. I was able to break a few small limbs off the tree and squeak under it.
Eventually, I made it down to where our spring water tanks were located and went to the water inlet valves from the springs and tested the water for how much flow. Just under three gallons a minute. That means things are normal and no problems with leaks in the incoming lines.
After checking the water flow, I continued on down past our water storage tanks.
And on down to my brother’s chicken range. His chickens make eggs for his Armstrong Valley Farm operation, which he sells at farmer’s markets. These chickens have it pretty nice.
I went by some of his tomatoes that are over the hill, from the recent rains. I was thinking I need to come back and get some for tomato soup.
I came home and did some more chair hopping and watering and that was my day for an enjoyable one.
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.
