I thought it would be a good idea to measure the level of the well just to see what it is as I’m using springs instead of the well.
Well water level
I got the tin can on a string and a 100 foot tape measure. I drop the can in the well and it floats on the water and I pull up the can and measure the string. The water level is at 36 feet. It was at 30 feet last time I measured it so it’s dropped another 6 feet since then.
Then I put some rocks in the can for weight and dropped it in again to measure the depth of the well. It’s at 50 feet. My chicken helper wasn’t much help.
I got the well ready to drop in the well pump but didn’t install it yet.
Radiator repair
After a break I looked at the car’s radiator as just before I left on my trip I’d noticed there was a very small fluid leak which I needed to locate so I could repair it with some epoxy.
I found were I thought the leak was and mixed up some epoxy and applied it where I think the small hole was. Now I’ll let the epoxy cure up before giving it a test.
I needed a nap after that so went in the house and had one and a break too.
Changing the car’s kayak rack a bit
After that I worked on my car’s kayak racks to make it easier to load and unload my kayak as my current method is tearing up my arm muscles and it hurts a lot.
So I rearranged things so I can load the boat without messing up my arm, I hope. I’ll test that out when I take my boat out again.
Cooking a chicken
I’d defrosted one of my butchered chickens so put it into the instant pot and cooked it with lots of broth as I want to put some white beans in with the chicken broth later and make some beans.
Dirt bike ride
A bit later I decided to go for a dirt bike ride up into the redwood forest as I wanted to check the water level of our water tanks from our springs.
Armstrong Valley Farm
I stopped at my brother’s garden to get an apple or two.
Some strawberries
On the way to the apples I spotted some ripe strawberries so stopped to indulge in some.
I picked a couple apples to take with me on my ride.
Tank water level check
I rode up and checked the water tanks and the water level was almost to the top which was good.
Break spot
I continued to the top of the hill and stopped here for a break and to eat an apple.
Talking Tree Trail
From there I rode around the roads a bit then headed down to the Talking Tree trail and stopped here for another break for a bit before continuing on.
I rode on down the trail and headed for home.
After that I did some chair hopping until dark just enjoying the nice evening.
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.
What a great day!!