Barry showed up this morning with his dirt bike so it meant a dirt bike ride day.
But first he wanted to change his bike’s oil so he rummaged through my tools until he found what he needed to do the job and changed the oil while I sat and shot the bull with him.
Riding in the hills
We took off for the hills and rode around a bit and stopped here at a neighbors gate for a bit.
Barry does most of the work
And then we took off again and rode around some roads until we got to this small tree that fell across the road. Since Barry rides first and I’m busy taking pictures, he usually removes most of the stuff. Usually the only time I can take pictures while riding is when we stop for something. In truth, it’s good exercise for him. :O)
We took off again and rode over to my c0usin’s place where we were able to get around or under a few more downed trees.
Break area
We made it up to the Top of the World where we usually take a good break and enjoy the place for a bit and of course shoot some more bull.
This was today’s view from there looking East.
We took off again and rode over to another neighbor’s place.
Downed trees
And then came back on our place where we ran into some more downed trees blocking the road which Barry took care of.
This log was a bit heavy so I helped him roll it off the road.
He was going to get this one but found it too big so we were able to just barely get around it.
We rode all over for a couple of hours or so and then headed home where Barry loaded up his bike and left for home.
I had a good break and then went out in the yard to see what I could accomplish today.
Dump trailer repair
The part came in for the dump trailer so I worked on getting that back together.
I had to install that silver thing, a solenoid and hook up all the wires to it correctly, of course, which I did.
Gave it a test
All hooked up and ready to give it a test. It worked as it should so I shut it up and put my tools away.
I sat around with the chickens for a bit.
Sky view, sunset
As the sun went over the hills to our west.
Leaky roof
I remembered I had a bit of a water leak on my porch during the last rains so I got the ladder out and some tools and found a loose screw, so replaced it with a larger one which should do the job. We’ll see during the next rain.
I did a little more sitting around until the night chill started to tell me to go in for the day as the chickens already did. So, I shut them up for the night and went in the house.
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.
