Drizzle is what it was doing today as I got it going, so what to do.
Damn Deer
I looked out the back window and there’s some deer laying on the ground resting. That pisses me off as there aren’t supposed to be any deer in the yard if my brother would just shut the gates when he goes through them. Damn. Anyway I wasn’t in any mood to chase them around the yard so I reached for some small firecrackers I had on hand and lit them off. Not much of a noise but enough to cause them to scoot. I’m not sure were they went, but hopefully out of the yard. I really need some cherry bombs for this task as the little crackers aren’t very loud, but so far I haven’t found any cherry bombs. I hear they are against the law these days.
Off to the store
Eventually I went down to the local grocery store and did a bit of shopping.
Back home I put the stuff away and went outside to see if I could do any work on anything, but it was a cold drizzle so I didn’t stay out there long.
Pickling radishes
At the store I bought some extra red radishes today thinking I might try pickling them, so I cut the ends off to get them ready. I realized I had too many for the jar I was using to pickle them in.
And making sauerkraut
So I thought I’ll just make some sauerkraut too and put some of the radishes in that mixture and see what happens. I looked in the fridge to see how much cabbage I had. Not much so I went over to my brother’s garden and found a slightly deformed head that would do the job. Since he sells his produce I try to use the ones that aren’t quite good enough to sell.
Back in the kitchen I made the sauerkraut with the radishes and I made up a brine for the radishes by themselves which is just salt and water. I use a plastic baggy full of water to seal the top to keep the air out and it works pretty well.
Paying bills
I had a pile of bills to pay cluttering up my desk, so I tackled most of them. I worked on transferring a couple of them to my Bill Pay at my Credit Union so next time I can pay them easier. I think eventually I’ll have all my bills On Bill Pay, not too many to go.
The drizzle picked up in the afternoon turning to a nice rain and it’s still raining now just before dark so not much chance I’m going out there to do anything today.
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.
