Today I had an appointment with my dermatologist so off I went to see her first thing. The purpose was to have her check out my healing process on the skin I burned with water a few months ago and to have her check out my body for moles and stuff.
My burns from the hot water have taken longer to heal than I would of thought. They are still healing but at least now most of the bad itching from them isn’t too bad. I mostly itch now when I get overheated.
She froze some things on my skin, but mostly found things looking pretty good as far as moles and things.
Shopping for food
As long as I was in Santa Rosa I did some shopping so I have stuff to eat.
New leaf springs for the van
And as long as I was there, I dropped into the spring place to see what it would take to make some new leaf springs for the front of my van and about how much they would cost.
I think I’m going to get it done, so now I have to take my van down to them so they can measure what size springs the van needs. The ones on there are not only worn out, but they are just a bit too long and bang into the frame when I hit a bump hard, so the new ones need to be just a bit shorter, so that’s why I’m going to take the van down and let them do all the measuring as they are supposed to know what they are doing. The wait time on getting new springs built is five days, so I need to get with it as I have places to go.
When I got home I put my stuff away and it was nap time so that’s what I did.
Strawberry fix
I puttered around the yard for a bit, not accomplishing much. Toward evening I decided to go over to my brother’s garden and see how the strawberries were doing.
It’s about a quarter mile walk over there from my house and I go over this bridge.
I looked at the creek to see how much water was in it. Not much. This creek dries up in the early summer. I bet in the olden days there were beaver on this creek and it didn’t dry up like it does now. Without the summer water, it’s not a good spawning creek anymore and there aren’t many fish in it.
Piggy piggy
I heard the pigs squealing so I went over to have a look.
Of course they all came over to say hi, or at least to see if I had any food.
From there I opened the gate to the garden and walked on in.
The strawberries have slowed a bit and the plants have grown a lot.
Huge strawberries
With the larger plants, I notice most of the berries which seem to be coming on again are huge.
Of course I ate a few and that was all I needed with them as large as they were.
On the way out I went by these yellow crook necked squash plants that are looking good. They are just starting to produce along with his zucchini squash that were right next to them.
Planning some remodeling in the van
I went back to my yard and had a look at the inside back of my van. Since I got the new refrigerator, I’ve been thinking I need to remodel the back storage area as I’m just not happy with how it is now. So, I’m thinking of working on that before I take off on my next trip somewhere.
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.
