I started the day off finishing up the float ball I was fixing up yesterday for our water tanks. It tells us how high or low the water is in our tanks that are fed by springs. All I had to do was finish up the top part that will attach to our new cable. I made a plastic washer for it and bent the stainless steel wire to form an eye so I can attach it to the cable with ties so as not to make an electrical contact so the brass weight I put under the six inch ball won’t corrode into the tank
It looks like this now.
Marty’s coming by for a visit
Marty was coming by and I thought we could ride up the hill in his jeep to install it, but he showed up in his old van that is similar to mine, but is a 1968, so I sidelined that project for now.
His old van
This is his 1668 van. We put four wheel drive on this one a few years before I put it on my 1967 van. Marty has a big RV now which pulls his jeep so his van hasn’t been getting a lot of attention, but he has plans for it and has been watching my improvements and says he’ll be doing some mechanicing on it next year.
The new front springs are working out great
He is especially interested in the new front springs as his has the same problem mine had as the original springs seem to be just a little too long and bang into the back at the body where they are mounted.
We sat around for about an hour or so and I showed him what I did to my van and gave him the parts from my old six cylinder engine as I won’t need them anymore and they will fit his engine. Some of the parts are for a TBI system, so that might encourage him to do the TBI on his van.
Walking around looking for things to eat
We took a walk around my yard looking for things to eat. We got a few grapes as that was all that were left as the birds and raccoons and who knows what has been working them over as well as me. We got a couple big red raspberries from the new raspberry patch. They really haven’t started producing much yet. Then we went over to the peach tree and had a peach.
Headed to the strawberry patch
Another bull session and then we walked over to my brothers garden to help him get rid of some strawberries.
Here’s Marty hunting around for a strawberry to eat. There were lots of them and we had our fill.
The garden was looking good.
We headed on back to my house were we shot the bull for awhile before he departed for home with some of my old parts.
Nap time
I needed a nap after that so that’s what I did. I didn’t sleep well last time fighting off corn itches so I was dragging a bit today.
Got the bed back in the van
Eventually, I went out and did a couple things to the van. I installed the bed and of course, climbed on for a nap. I always feel like I’m out camping someplace when I use the van bed and it’s fairly comfortable too.
After that, I mostly studied what else I need to do to the van tomorrow and took it easy for the rest of the day.
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.
