Yesterday I thought it would be a good idea to dig up the chicken pen dirt. Doing this sorta freshens it up and gives the chickens a good place to have a dust bath.
Digging up the pen
So today I did the young birds pen first. The dirt clods will get broken up by the chickens and smoothed out by them too as they dig and scratch.
The adult bird pen was next. I had to chase the chickens out to get started.
The dirt was pretty soft so it didn’t take long to dig that one up too.
Raspberry patch maintenance
After a good break and some chair hopping I was looking at the raspberry patch berry plants and noticed a bunch of them were turning yellow. That’s because they were done producing berries and needed to cut down.
This is the raspberry patch.
Note the yellowed spent bushes that need to be cut out.
I worked on the patch and got most of the old berry canes cut down and now just needed to be picked up.
I picked up some of the berry canes but not all and left some to pick up tomorrow, maybe.
Puttering and peeps
The rest of the day I spent chair hopping and puttering around the yard.
When the peeps get full of food they hang around like this.
A little peeper resting.
And a couple more little guys resting after spending most of the day eating and getting into mischief.
I puttered around the chicken coup most of the day doing little clean up things that needed done.
Feeding back the eggs
I had some extra eggs that were getting old so I boiled them up and smashed them up and added them to some barley bran and fed that to the chickens. They sure like to eat their own eggs. It works out ok as the more protein you feed them the more eggs they lay so it all works out in the end.
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.
