I could hear the light drizzle as I woke up this morning so I didn’t bother getting up for a couple extra hours. But I finally did and decided to ride the quad runner up the hill to check out how our spring water was doing.
The drizzle had stopped but it was a fairly overcast day making it look a bit gloomy.
Half full tanks
I rode on up to our water tanks which were only half full.
Next I went over to this ravine just above the tanks and walked up it about in the middle of this picture.
Measured the water
That’s where the water lines that fed the spring water to the tanks comes into this valve network. I’m able to turn the valves so I can measure the spring outputs. I do this by measuring the time it takes the water to fill the one gallon paint can. It took 12 seconds to fill so that means there’s five gallons a minute coming down the pipes to the tanks or 300 gallons an hour which is a respectable amount of water.
The water is used to supply five houses and my brother uses the water to water his vegetables. With the tanks only at about half full, I think he needs to reduce his spring water usage a bit.
On up the hill
After that I rode the quad on up the hill on this road.
I rode to the top of the hill to here where it over looks the town of Guerneville. That’s water vapor you see, not smoke.
Armstrong Valley Farm Garden
I took another road on the way down and stopped at one of my brother’s Armstrong Valley farm’s gardens.
Winter crops
My brother’s been prepping his ground for his winter crops.
I went by his chickens on the way out of his garden. Of course they were hoping I had something for them to eat but I didn’t.
From there I went on home and took it easy for the rest of the day.
I’m glad you have it figured out how to measure the water supply! You lost me at ‘half full’. :)
Look at all those chickens! Must product lots of eggs and lots of good meals, eventually.
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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.
I’m glad you have it figured out how to measure the water supply! You lost me at ‘half full’. :)
Look at all those chickens! Must product lots of eggs and lots of good meals, eventually.