I thought it was about time to get the dozer battery out of it and give it a charge on the charger so on the way up to work on the trail I stopped at my brothers garden where the dozer is parked.
Farming
He and his helper were getting a plot ready to plant something.
This is the rig on his tractor that he uses to plant the plants.
Dozer battery
And here’s where the dozer has been dozing long enough for the battery to need a charge.
I forgot my wrench but fortunately there was one in there with the battery so I removed it and stuck it in my brother’s gulf cart and asked him to take it to my house.
Trail work and a walk in the forest
I rode the quad up into the hills and stopped here to do some work, mostly filling in bumps and throwing rocks off the trail.
I went for a walk exploring where the old trail went through here.
I followed the old trail through here too for a nice forest walk.
Just a view of the forest as I walked on by.
I was up there about three hours getting some work and some nice walking in before I returned home for a break.
Pulling weeds
I pulled some weeds for the chicks. I noticed these grapes. Looks like a nice crop this year, when they get ripe.
Chicks
The weeds got put in the chicks pen and they didn’t take long to discover them.
Raspberry patch
My view of the sky as I chair hopped around the yard and ended up in the raspberry patch where I’m sitting now.
Weeding
I pulled more weeds in the raspberry patch and here’s a small sample of them. I got maybe a third of the patch weeded today.
I’m taking the load of weeds to the chickens pen for them to eat.
They were watching me take them to the pen and jumped right in there to feed on the weeds.
The rest of the day I spent chair hopping around the yard and making plans to do some more projects.
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.
