I heard a truck out in the front yard today. It was my brother Barry with his dirt bike, so I got my gear and joined him on a ride up into the hills.
We took off for the hills and rode around for an hour or so, then headed to our break area at the top of the hill, here. Things looked a bit hazy or maybe smoky out there today with not much sun.
After a good break we took off again and run into one of the foresters counting my cousin’s trees, down the hill to the left. Barry talked with her for a bit then we took off again and rode around the properties some more.
Drink
We stopped at our main spring for a drink of water.
From there, we took off for my house and Barry headed on home and I went in and got something to eat.
Then I went out and let the chickens into the front yard so they could graze and do their thing.
Some trail work
That’s what I was going to do before Barry showed up for a ride, so I got my chainsaw and rode the quad runner up to this spot and parked. I took the chainsaw up the trail to cut some stuff off it.
This was the first log I cut off of the trail.
The saw made quick work of that one. It did leave a hole in the trail I’ll have to come back and fix, eventually.
Head knocker
I continued walking up the trail to this one. It was the main reason I wanted to cut trees off the trail today as the other day, I smashed my head on this one walking under it and hit hard enough to draw some blood. Ouch.
The top of the ridge was just up the trail a short distance from that one, so I went up to trim brush off the place the old trail ran through and cut brush to open the trail up to make it easier to walk.
I trimmed brush through here.
All trimmed up. Since the trail is on the ridge top, no dirt needs to be moved, just some brush needs trimming, so I continued working on that for about a half hour.
After that, I headed back down the trail and rode the quad down to this tree. I still had some gas in the saw, so I removed this tree off this trail and then went on home for the 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.
