Barry showed up in my yard this morning with his dirt bike. He’s been reading my blog and knew I had the trail made so we could ride on up that road to see what’s up there.
We got ready to go and took off across the highway and on up into the forest.
We stopped often to cut small limbs out of the road, the ones that smack you in the face, mostly.
Barry is a surveyor, so we stopped here so he could figure out where a property line was.
Eventually we ended up at our break area on the hilltop. Barry is headed to his hammock.
View
There were a few clouds in the sky today, maybe some rain coming soon.
After a good break we headed for the area where I was working on the trail. Barry is checking it out and mostly gave his approval.
We walked up the trail a bit throwing rocks and sticks off the trail.
Back on the dirt bikes we rode on up the hill.
Stopping to trim brush off the road.
Barry stopped here to get this larger stuff off the road and I got off too to help him clear it. We smelled gas and eventually realized Barry’s bike fell over and the gas was draining out.
Broken clutch lever
When Barry picked up his bike he said there was something wrong with his clutch lever as it was a bit loose, but it worked so we rode on up the hill further. We were going up a steep part when Barry informed me his clutch lever was broken, so we had a problem.
We were able to get the bike turned around and down to a flat in the road to have a look at it. Broken alright, so no clutch. I looked at it and was able to tighten up the clutch cable so he could at least use it to get the engine started so we were able to start down the hill headed for home.
Big mushroom
On the way Barry headed off in another direction. I knew he was headed on over to where we found a nice big edible mushroom earlier. We stashed it by the road as we knew it wouldn’t last the ride and now needed to pick it up.
This is about six inches across and is the most sought after mushroom in these parts.
He stuffed that mushroom in his jacket and we took off for home.
I had some plans to do some work, but the ride was enough to tire me out for the day.
I used to have an old Honda 90 trail bike. You could go down the highway or 4-wheel up the mountains. What a fun ride except for when it fell over. By the way, how are the rats doing??
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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.
Wondering what kind of mushroom?
I used to have an old Honda 90 trail bike. You could go down the highway or 4-wheel up the mountains. What a fun ride except for when it fell over. By the way, how are the rats doing??