I dug out some more dirt to put some more critter proofing in more gates today.
Here’s one of them with the wire in and ready to put some dirt back in the ditch.
For critters and chickens too
They’re not just to keep the critters from digging in, but also to keep the chickens from making holes under there from their diggings and scratching’s in the dirt as they do a lot of that always looking for something to eat.
Chickens don’t like it
I penned the chickens in their pen so I could do the work and they weren’t too happy with that as they like to get into the dirt as I shovel it. This was the fourth gate I installed the wire in the ground today.
Finally got the cabinet door back in
I installed the cabinet door that I glued together the other day back in the van and tidied that up a bit as I need to use the van to get some more project materials soon. That was an easy job.
Trimming the mulberry tree
I also put the ladder up into my mulberry tree and trimmed out some of the small branches so the berries would be easier to pick. The branches were so close together that it was hard to get my arm through the branches to pick the berries. I think it’ll be much easier now. There’s only a few berries left on the tree as most of them are done, but I did find some to eat.
Pulled some weeds
I pulled some weeds from my brother’s garden and let the chickens back in this run to eat them. They are happy when they are eating something new, it doesn’t matter much what.
Taking it easy
I puttered around most of the day. I did go over to my brother’s garden and ate a few of his carrots which were pretty good and I did some watering and did a lot of taking it easy.
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.
