The cherries on the cherry trees are starting to get ripe, so I started the day partaking of them. The birds are also working on them. They are just starting to ripen and if the birds don’t eat all of them they will get much riper and tastier. If you wait until they get real ripe before eating some, you might not get any because of the birds.
Watering
I put the sprinkler on the avocado trees to give them a drink of spring water as all our houses are on spring water.
Forest work
Barry and Gerald shower up just after noon, so we loaded up tools and lunches to head up into the hills to work on the pipeline.
I only had two Pulaski’s which was the tools we needed today, so Gerald and I rode up to the pipeline trail and got to work while Barry went for a bike ride and then retired to his hammock at the top of the hill.
Pipeline work
I followed Gerald up the pipeline trail to work on the trail.
We worked a few hours and got good and tired out. Here’s Gerald after a hard days work on the trail.
Gathering old pipe
I knew where there was some old black plastic pipe not far from where we were working on the pipeline so Gerald and I headed on over there to try and pull it up the hill so we could use it on the pipeline. Barry ran into us on the way and joined us to help out.
Barry and Gerald went down into there to try and hook a rope on the pipe so Hondo could pull it up the hill and out of there.
You can see them down there hooking the rope to the pipe.
We got the rope attached to the pipe as best we could and brought the rope up onto the road so I could pull it.
They are fastening the rope to Hondo’s tow ball for pulling.
Hondo gave a good pull but the rope broke, then the next time it broke the pipe.
Tom showed up to help out too. But what ever we did that darn pipe wasn’t going to move today.
After trying to pull that pipe up the hill a few times, I said let’s quit that for the day and come back tomorrow and try again. Tomorrow I plan to pull the pipe enough to put a lot of tension on it and then go down walking along the pipe to find out where it is hung up.
Another pipe
Barry took off on his dirt bike for a ride and Gerald and I took Hondo over to where I knew there was another pipe, although much smaller.
We got the pipe onto the road and then pulled it to a place to store it for now along one of the roads.
We went on home from there a bit tired out. We did get some good exercise.
Van work
Later in the evening after a good nap, I went outside to do some more work on the van’s solar controller project. I finished up the wiring and tidied it all up with some zip ties and sealed up all the places the wires went through the battery box with silicone.
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.
