I decided to get as much into the van today as I could. That would include everything except the last minute stuff. I worked on that all day but I took my time as there’s not much to load, mostly clothes and food so that’s what I did.
Some wash
I also did a bit of laundry to get some clean shirts that I wanted to take with me. Might as well start out clean eh. That’s it hanging on the van’s doors to dry.
Radiator looks good
I checked under the van to see if the radiator was leaking or not. Fortunately it was dry so all is good in that department.
Prepped my chicken assistant
I also puttered around doing some last minute chicken stuff so things will be ready for Dominique, my assistant who will be minding the chickens while I’m gone.
And more woodchips
And of course I moved more woodchips to the raspberry patch. A few more loads tomorrow and it should have enough woodchips for awhile.
Wheelbarrow is loaded with the woodchips and ready to drive over to the raspberry patch. I think I got 5 or 6 loads done today.
Teaching Dominique the cam
Towards evening I went over to Dominique’s to show her how to set up one of my video cams so she can use it at her place while I’m gone. That went ok and we got it done so now she can play with it and learn how to use it.
395 research
I’ve been thinking of driving down to quartzite on 395 instead of 5 as it would be less stress and more interesting as there’s much to explore on 395.
So I did some research on the computer looking at Google Earth and some other maps for places to check out.
I can see some nice looking water ways SE of Bishop that have roads going down them I ‘d like to check out and anything else I can find.
One last yak
Since I have most of the van loaded and most of the spring yard work done I can go down and check out the steelhead fishermen tomorrow which I plan to do and then come home and finish loading up the van.
Nice day puttering around loading the van and doing yard work with a nice warm sun up in the sky.
I’ve been wanting to do 395 south of Carson city for quite some time……
From up here in Wa. I’ve taken 97 south then 395 to Reno then over to 95 south…
Many times from Idaho down 93 all the way or wandered around Utah south then back up to 50 or whatever….I can’t stand the freeways, old me and my old rig do not like 70+ speeds and getting pushed by all those in such a hurry…
Back roads and the small towns seem to like my $$ and I like visiting them…They are vanishing every week…..
Have Fun!!
Oh. My. Gosh!! i see daffodils in one of those pictures!!!!!
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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’ve been wanting to do 395 south of Carson city for quite some time……
From up here in Wa. I’ve taken 97 south then 395 to Reno then over to 95 south…
Many times from Idaho down 93 all the way or wandered around Utah south then back up to 50 or whatever….I can’t stand the freeways, old me and my old rig do not like 70+ speeds and getting pushed by all those in such a hurry…
Back roads and the small towns seem to like my $$ and I like visiting them…They are vanishing every week…..
Have Fun!!
Oh. My. Gosh!! i see daffodils in one of those pictures!!!!!