My brother Barry arrived this morning for a dirt bike ride up into the hills. I wasn’t finished getting up yet so he took off by himself and was going to do some of the toughest roads where I don’t go.
Once I got it going I hopped on the dirt bike and found him up in the hills and we had a good ride riding all over the roads.
Rest spot
We stopped here so Barry could have a rest under the tree there.
And we went by the ridge top overlook on the way back down the hill.
That’s enough
We went until Barry said he’d had enough as he had an earlier start than I and when he does that he usually goes up the real steep spots that I don’t do anymore at my age. I do steep enough one’s believe me.
Woodchips
After getting home and having a good break I went out in the yard and moved move woodchips to the raspberry patch from this pile.
I have a layer of woodchips pretty much all over the patch now. It’s not as thick as I’d like so I’ll likely add a bit more mulch as time permits.
I dug this planting plot up and hauled a load of woodchips to it.
Worn out
I was pretty beat by evening with the dirt bike ride and all the other stuff I was doing so some chair hopping was in order and that’s what I did until the day started to cool down.
That was my day for a nice one. I got a lot of exercise playing and working.
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.
