I started off the day working on my garden enclosure. I made this roof support to help hold up the flat roof from sagging. It’s sort of a beam..
And then went for a quad runner ride
I put that aside until later and got the quad runner going and rode up into the hills to check out our spring water supply. I checked the water tanks to make sure they were full of water and they were.
Charging the dozer battery
From the water tanks, I drove over to where the bull dozer was parked. It needs started up once in awhile to change up the battery.
It started right up, so I drove it up the hill a ways to move it higher on the hill and give the batteries enough time to charge up.
And a little walk
I left the dozer up higher on the hill and walked back down this road to where my quad was parked.
Still can’t get my shovel unstuck
On the way home I stopped at the creek crossing where I lost my shovel during a storm last winter. The shovel was still there stuck in the debris and gravels. I tried to dislodge it, but it’s stuck good, so I will wait a bit longer until all the water dries up this summer to get the shovel out.
Back to work on the enclosure
I went back to my house and started working on the garden enclosure some more. The cat came by to give advice.
I installed the roof brace I constructed this morning. The other roof pieces will tie into this piece to help hold them up and keep them from sagging too much.
By now it was cooling down for the evening. I sat around in the yard for awhile, then went in for the day.
It sure is. I live in Windsor and I believe we get most of our water from the Russian. I couldn’t resist offering assistance with the shovel for multiple reasons. Being friendly and meeting other outdoors people to name a couple…oh and all of that wild pig rooting too. :O)
You noticed the wild pig rooting. Lots of it on the roads right now. They don’t hang around much as the area is too close to houses so the pigs seem to come in during the night and head out to some other ranch during the day. They don’t usually hang out on the property, but last fall there was a large crop of acorns so they are in here right now cleaning them up along with everything else they eat and then they will be gone until next year again.
bob
Very interesting. I have motion activated wildlife cameras and I get a lot of pictures of pigs along the river. If you don’t already have one then you might be interested in them. I wouldn’t mind lending you one as I’m transferring to Humboldt State this summer and don’t think I’ll be using all 6 of them while I’m up north.
Hi Carson,
I’ve considered a wildlife cam, but I seem to have enough in the fire right now with what I have. I’ve messed with wireless motion detect cams a bit, but I’m just not ready to get back into it.
Thanks for the offer,
Bob
I enjoy reading your blog. The Russian River and surrounding area is fascinating. I will get your shovel for you if you’d like.
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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.
Hi Carson,
The Russian River area is a neat place to live and I sure enjoy it. That shovel will keep. :O)
Bob
It sure is. I live in Windsor and I believe we get most of our water from the Russian. I couldn’t resist offering assistance with the shovel for multiple reasons. Being friendly and meeting other outdoors people to name a couple…oh and all of that wild pig rooting too. :O)
You noticed the wild pig rooting. Lots of it on the roads right now. They don’t hang around much as the area is too close to houses so the pigs seem to come in during the night and head out to some other ranch during the day. They don’t usually hang out on the property, but last fall there was a large crop of acorns so they are in here right now cleaning them up along with everything else they eat and then they will be gone until next year again.
bob
Very interesting. I have motion activated wildlife cameras and I get a lot of pictures of pigs along the river. If you don’t already have one then you might be interested in them. I wouldn’t mind lending you one as I’m transferring to Humboldt State this summer and don’t think I’ll be using all 6 of them while I’m up north.
Hi Carson,
I’ve considered a wildlife cam, but I seem to have enough in the fire right now with what I have. I’ve messed with wireless motion detect cams a bit, but I’m just not ready to get back into it.
Thanks for the offer,
Bob
I enjoy reading your blog. The Russian River and surrounding area is fascinating. I will get your shovel for you if you’d like.