I hopped on the motor bike to ride up into the forest to this spring. The dirt slide finally stopped sliding so I needed to dig this dirt out over the spring one more time.
No camera
Once I got up there I realized I’d forgotten my camera, which I seem to be doing more often lately.
Getting started
Anyway, I found the shovel I have stashed up there and got my chair out and sat down for a bit to contemplate the job.
Digging
Digging this dirt out goes like this. Dig and throw the dirt and rocks out on the road, then, sit down and rest for a bit, then get up and do it again. That was my routine for about four hours of digging today.
I did get most of the dirt out, so the spring is ready to get to the next step, which is, set things up for tapping the spring.
I didn’t want to do any more today as I want to take some video clips of the process, but since I forgot my camera, that was it for now.
I have everything I need to tap this spring, except a stainless steel screen which I need to purchase at the store. I use a stainless steel food strainer for the process as they are easiest to get and cost less than most other options for stainless steel screen.
Nap time
When I was done with that work, I rode on home for a nap and that was pretty much my day.
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.
Way to go, Bob!! Look’n good, dude!!