I suppose that is a relative thing as chilly around here isn’t as bad as most places called chilly. I spent the morning inside the house where it was warm but was thinking I needed to get outside doing something productive so I get some exercise.
Doing a bit of work is a good way to warm up too.
Road Work won out
The fire guys used my neighbor’s dirt road for access to get up into the hills where the fire was, during the forest fire a couple of years ago and they didn’t leave it ditched well so places are starting to wash out. And a small piece of the main road at the top needed a bit of work too, which would be good to get done before the next rains hit.
Slight delay
I got some warm clothes on and went out to go, but the quad’s battery barely turned the machine’s engine over so no go there. I put the charger on it for a bit when I noticed the engine’s oil was down a bit in the glass sight you use to check the oil.
I got the oil out and put some in there.
Good to go
After putting the oil stuff away I tried the starter and it started so I took off for the hills with a shovel and stopped here to dig that ditch that stops the water from running down the road when it rains. Otherwise, eventually the ditch would get real big and wash the whole road out.
I stopped at about ten or so other places and put ditches in as I worked my way up the hill to the main road, here.
I did about four spots on the main road then rode on up the hill to the top.
Hill top
I didn’t wear any ran gear and it was looking like it might rain, but it didn’t. I parked here at the top for a good break and to enjoy the day while I cooled down from all the exercise.
Guerneville
Today’s view of the town of Guerneville down in the valley.
There were some nice big clouds looking good above me.
After a good break there, I went back down the road and put a couple more ditches in.
Bull dozer?
I should bring the bull dozer up here to do this as it’d do a better job, but the ground is too wet right now, so the shovel will have to do for now. If the ground dries out a little I’ll bring the dozer up and fix things up right.
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.
