I tended the chickens and did some chair hopping and some cherry eating and then needed a nap for a couple hours. It must have been all those cherries I ate.
Forest ride
Later in the afternoon I jumped on the dirt bike and rode up into the hills for a ride through the forest.
I stopped here at the ridge top and sat on those wood rounds on the left for a bit just enjoying the day.
Then off I went down through these trees.
I took this trail.
And stopped at what I call the Lost Ridge for a short break.
Then headed up this road just taking it easy and enjoying the forest.
And then I rode down this road headed for the strawberry patch.
Armstrong Valley Farm strawberry patch
I ate my fill of strawberries before heading on home.
Eating cherries
Once home it was back up in one of my cherry trees to eat some more cherries. You have to eat the cherries before the birds get them all. This is my view from the ladder top.
Old well work
And then I went over to the old well and worked on removing some more sediment from the well for a bit, about a half hour.
The chickens joined me getting into the discharge water as they like to dig in the mud.
New peeps
Of course I checked on the new peeps throughout the day.
The white hen is letting the red hen know she got to close to her little ones.
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.
