Yesterday I made the long drive home which took most of the day. The drive was uneventful which is always good.
Dig those potatoes
Today I went out and let my chickens into this potato area so they could feed on the weeds and dig up my potatoes for me.
Chicks need a roost
I’ve noticed the little chicks are growing fast and need a little roost in their nursery area. I had this roost I wasn’t using so I had a look at it. It was too big to fit into the nursery so I got my tools out and made it smaller so it would fit.
After some sawing and screwing I had something to try.
New roost
This is the roost in the nursery and it looks like it will work.
Working on the new spring tap
After a break I got some tools together and rode my quad up to the new spring I’ve been working on.
I wanted to fill the clay dam tap area up with rocks after I cleaned the redwood leaves out of it.
Rocking it
I rocked in behind the clay dam and tried to fill up all the little holes as much as possible. Water flows through the cracks in the rocks to the drain pipe.
I put in some bigger rocks first then used smaller rocks to help close up as many holes as possible. I really only wanted cracks for the water to flow through.
Some plastic over it all
After the rocks I used empty feed sacks to seal it all up which will be good enough for now. I may cover it up some more with rocks later.
Only a half a gallon a minute now
Once that was done I measured the water. Only a half a gallon a minute. It dropped a half gallon a minute since last time I measured it as this is the worse time of the year and the water is the lowest at this time. It was a gallon a minute last time I measured.
Trail work with a new tool
After that I went down my trail for the water pipe and worked on it a bit with my new tool. This is the spot where the yellow jackets got me so I was careful and the first buzz I was out of there.
New digging tool
Here’s my new digging tool a Pulaski, great for digging trails and stuff.
Bees drove me off
The bees drove me off but I think I got enough done to lay the pipe. I was also beat after doing the digging so I had enough for one day and went on home for a break.
Armstrong Valley Farm strawberries
On the way home I stopped at my brother’s garden to eat a few strawberries from one of his patches. Hummm good.
I also dug up and ate a couple of his carrots before taking off.
After a break I went out to see how the chickens were doing.
Two hens on a nest
These two are sitting on some eggs together which is good as there are too many eggs for one chicken in the nest.
I’m not sure what they’ll hatch out but we’ll see in another week or so.
Chickens dig potatoes for me
I got a bucket and gathered some potatoes the chickens had dug up. I’ll let them in this pen again tomorrow and get some more.
I got done more than I expected today which is always nice.
A very productive day you had, nice to get that spring water working too.
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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.
A very productive day you had, nice to get that spring water working too.