First thing this morning, around noon, there was a knock at my door. It was my brother Tom asking if I had any eggs to sell as they seem to be in short supply in most of the world right now and the market called and said they were out of eggs. Hummm, yes I have about 12 dozen extra ones. He took the eggs and processed them for sale.
It’s interesting that eggs are in short supply. People must be eating more eggs these days than I thought, or something.
Swallows are back
When I went outside this morning I noticed the swallows were back. I knew one of my nesting boxes had fallen off it’s post during a storm last winter and it needed to be put back up so it can be used. I got the ladder out and a screwdriver and repaired it and put it back up.
Nest box fixed
It’s a rather old nest box but it still works and they are happy with it.
No get up and go
I wasn’t doing too good today because I’d overdone it yesterday and wore myself out too much. Something about older age I suppose.
Anyway I felt like a truck ran over me and didn’t have any get up and go so I did a lot of chair hopping for part of the day. The sun was out so that was nice at least.
Putt putt dirt bike ride
After doing that for most of the day I decided I was good enough to go for a putt, putt dirt bike ride up in the hills, just going along not too fast and taking it easy.
So I got the dirt bike out and rode it up to this spot where I looked around for a water spring, but didn’t go far. Being spring everything is nice and green.
After a short time there I jumped back on the bike and rode it to the ridge top for the view.
Guerneville
This is the town of Guerneville with a bit of fog from the ridge top.
After a short time there I continued on my ride going through here.
Ever Green Pass
A few miles later and I was here where I decided to stop to take some pictures of a place we played when we were kids, a long time ago.
Here’s the view from there, a place we used to call Ever Green Pass.
On that flat spot in the center is were we made a small shelter out of the small Christmas trees, fir trees to some. We’d hike up to it from our houses and eat lunch. I’m not sure we ever stayed up there?
I continued my ride on this road.
Pig Wallow Spring
And stopped at this spring I call Pig Wallow Spring. I needed to check it out. It seems to be plugging up for some reason so I will need to dig it out and redo it eventually.
This is how much water comes out of it when it’s working as it should.
Lots of ferns and sorrel in this area.
Ferns and sorrel.
From there I headed on this road towards home.
Strawberry patch
I stopped at my brother’s strawberry patch to see how it was coming along, the berries I mean. No berries but there were lots of blooms.
Feeling better
I rode on home and put the bike away and sat down and did some chair hopping for the rest of the day.
I was feeling much better after the bike ride but still took it easy and rested up.
Reason for a run on eggs? My best guess is people who only know how to cook eggs and are stuck in their houses due to Covid-19.
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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.
That and it’s Easter tomorrow.
Reason for a run on eggs? My best guess is people who only know how to cook eggs and are stuck in their houses due to Covid-19.