I needed to put some fertilizer on the woodchip mulch I put in the raspberry patch the other day as the woodchips are supposed to use up lots of the nitrogen in the ground and fertilizing the chips will just make them that much better.
I used this contraption to add the fertilizer to the sprinkler water.
This is where I wanted to fertilize but first I had to wait a couple hours to finish watering somewhere else.
Propane leak repair
Next I put the new hoses on the propane line that goes to my heater in the van. I got it all clamped together and installed but not tested for leaks yet.
Making rain
Once that was finished it was time to turn the sprinkler on in the raspberry patch.
The Daffodils are coming up here too.
Next was a break and some chair hopping around the yard.
Chicken pen maintenance
I took three and a half loads of fertilized dirt out of this chicken pen and put it on some fruit trees.
And I put woodchips in that pen and this other one.
After that I sat around the yard, just enjoying the day until the sun went over the hills to the west about four o’clock.
Mulching a trail
I was going to take the dirt bike up into the hills and mulch the trail where I removed the part of the big stump with some redwood mulch I obtain under the redwood trees.
But somehow I hopped on the quad runner by mistake and found myself riding up the road on the quad. That’s ok, as I only wanted to take the dirt bike to not take the tools up there that were on the quad as I was tired out enough today and I don’t want to use them.
Anyway I made it up to here where I parked and walked up the trail and put some redwood mulch on the trail where I was working.
Trail work
That didn’t take long then I rode over to here and put some small logs along the trail to mark where it is on this spot I repaired that got washed out during a big rain storm.
Then I rode up to here and stopped to check out the trail a bit and throw some stuff off it.
Road work
And hen rode on up to here and stopped. As long as I had the chain saw on the quad I stopped to cut up these logs a bit to get them off the road.
Then I rode on down this road to a place I knew there was another tree across the road.
Cleaning roads up
On the way, I stopped to throw sticks and rocks off this road for a few hundred yards.
And I made it to the tree across the road and cut it into pieces so I could throw it off the road.
Well that was all more work than I had planned to do so now I was beat and headed on home going by these big fern on the way home.
I got more exercise than I expected today, just puttering with stuff.
More exercise is always good at our age as long as we spread it out over a number of days. :) It seems like the trails always need attention, especially after winds and rains. It was a lovely sunny day here too but the winds increased in the afternoon a bit.
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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.
More exercise is always good at our age as long as we spread it out over a number of days. :) It seems like the trails always need attention, especially after winds and rains. It was a lovely sunny day here too but the winds increased in the afternoon a bit.