Once I got it going today I drove down to Monte Rio to the parts house and picked up my van parts I ordered yesterday and drove on back home.
Dirt bike ride
I heard my brother Barry cutting wood up in the hills so I jumped on the dirt bike and rode on up to where he was cutting to see if he needed any bull dozer work helping him move logs.
He seemed to have things under control so I rode up to the ridge top over looking the little town of Guerneville.
Measuring the spring water
On the way back down the hill I stopped at this spot to check on how much water was flowing out of a spring I’m working on tapping.
I use the gallon paint can to measure how much water is flowing from the spring. It measured just under 5 gallons a minute which is a good spring around these parts.
Strawberry patch
After that I stopped at Tom’s garden to eat a few strawberries. He’d just picked them for the weekend markets but I found enough to enjoy. That’s cabbage in the front and the strawberries are in the back.
Feeling lazy
Once home I didn’t feel like working on the van or for that matter working on anything so I took it easy for most of the day with some napping and chair hopping.
Until late afternoon when I finally felt like doing something.
Mulch moving
I loaded up the wheelbarrow with woodchip mulch. And I found this old bird house that had fallen under a big tree so I decided to install it over by the chicken house so I moved it over that way on the way to dump the wood chips.
I dumped two loads of wood chips in what I call my mulch pen which is one of the places I let the chickens into so I put this in here for them to move around as they scratch around during the day.
Not my peeps
As I was heading to the feed shed to check on my new peeps I heard what I thought was a bunch of little peeps peeping, but it wasn’t my new peeps so I investigated.
It turned out to be a few little peeps in this nest box. I knew what lived here as I watched the birds move into it and two of my readers identified the birds using it as Bluebirds. I’d watch the swallows diving on the bird while on a close by nest that must of been occupied by the swallows. Anyway the bluebirds moved to another nest about 30 feet away and started their nest in this box.
Bluebirds nesting
I could see one of he little peeps in the box.
And then I spotted the reason for all the noise. Looks like papa bluebird has a bug for them.
Hung the nest box
Next I hung up the other nest I’d picked up under the tree here on this post.
Woody carrots
As long as I had the wheelbarrow out I wheeled it over to my brother’s carrot patch where the carrots had gone to seed and filled it up with carrots. When they go to seed the carrots get real woody. The chickens don’t seem to like to eat them much. I put them into their pen to see if they eat them. Sometimes they like to let stuff rot a little before eating them so we’ll see.
My new peeps
Just before dark I checked on the chicken egg incubator to see how things were going. I had 7 chicks in there so far. The little guy in the middle, center, just hatched out and isn’t fluffed out yet. Some of the birds hatched out a bit peppier than the others. I can leave them in here for a couple days to mature a bit then I need to move them out to get some food and water which they do not need their first couple of days as they feed on their yokes.
More congrats! So nice to hear peeps from a different colony of feathered friends. :)
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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.
More congrats! So nice to hear peeps from a different colony of feathered friends. :)